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The Psychology of Culture in Japan
Of late, the psychology of culture has been receiving much fanfare in Japan. This
was evidenced by the record attendance of 1,180 participants at the 2016 Conference of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Nagoya,
Japan. That record attendance was largely due to the high number of domestic
attendees. This chapter outlines how the psychology of culture has been developed in Japan, beginning with the introduction of psychology as a Western
discipline in parallel with industrial, political, and cultural modernisation as the
result of the Meiji reform
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