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Theory: modernity, postmodernity and the Japanese experience, Johann P. Aranson work: postmodernism or ultramodernism - the Japanese dilemma at work, Ross E. Mouer industrial relations: is Japanese capitalism post-Fordist?, Tetsuro Kaot and Rob Steven gender: feminism and modernity - Japanese women's strategies in the 1990s science: the new science, social thought and ideology in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki literature: modernism and postmodernism in Japanese literature, Toshiko Kishida-Ellis fine arts: the conditions for postmodernity in Japanese art of the 1980s, John Clark communication: moderrnization and postmodernization of the Japanese system of communication, Jiri Neustrupny social stratification: changing status perceptions in contemporary Japan - a debate on modernity and postmodernity, Kenji Kosaka politics: the Japanese postmodern political condition, Paul Harrison Japanese studies: Nihonjinron at the end of the 20th century - a multicultural perspective, Ross E. Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto.
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