Nihonjinron: the Japaneseization of culture and society

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Israel A. Almeida Molina
Maria Elena Álvarez Acosta

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This Work focuses on Japanese society. It is necessary to analyze the situation in which it is located and how it has been able to adjust, for its own benefit, its cultural limits and thus maintain its sense of identity in the face of imposition attempts. In this sense, the tension between the will of the Japanese cultural industries to promote a product with hybrid values ​​and the Japanese interest of diffusion of a monolithic model of culture based on homogeneity and inspired by the precepts of nihonjinron (niponization) ), in a nation and society where tradition and modernity coexist, in which the advances of Western countries are incorporated and renewed and that strengthens their role in the international arena.

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Almeida Molina, I. A., & Álvarez Acosta, M. E. (2018). Nihonjinron: the Japaneseization of culture and society. ConcienciaDigital, 1(3), 63-72. https://doi.org/10.33262/concienciadigital.v1i3.901
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