This five volume set contains a number of texts on Ainu religious beliefs as seen through the eyes of foreign visitors to Hokkaido. Other texts included are translations or re-tellings of Ainu folk ta
Scholar and teacher of the Japanese language Refsing (U. of Copenhagen) and researcher in text linguistics and translation theory and practice Lundquist (languages for a specific purpose, Copenhagen B
The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousn
