JAPANESE CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

By Suzanne Tatikian

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Cultural Characteristics

• Agricultural Age Cultural Characteristics:

  Local cultures (organized around rural communities or citystates).

• Industrial Age Cultural Characteristics:

  National cultures (organized around the nation-state).

• Information Age Cultural Characteristics:

  Globalization of cultures (organized around an increasingly interdependent work), creating surface level global unity along with deeper level local diversity of the world's cultural conflicts in post Cold War era--as people seek new identities and often return to old identities without sufficient recognitin of global interdependence needs and dangers of war in a technological age. New non-localized virtual communities also emerging in cyberspace.

Information/Data on Japanese Cultural Characteristics

Conclusions on Japan (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Cultural Characteristics)

Additional Online Sources on Japanese Cultural Characteristics

• Source 1 [[Name it & make a hotlink to it]]
• Source 2 [[Name it & make a hotlink to it]]
• Source 3 [[Name it & make a hotlink to it]]

Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Japanese Cultural Characteristics

• Culturegrams. [[Add complete Bibliographic Reference.]]
• Source 2 [[Add complete Bibliographic Reference.]]
• Source 3 [[Add complete Bibliographic Reference.]]