Date of Publication
2006
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Asian Studies Major in Japanese Studies
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
International Studies
Thesis Adviser
Mary Laureen L. Velasco
Defense Panel Chair
Carmelita Corpuz
Defense Panel Member
Dante Leoncini
Florentino T. Timbreza
Abstract/Summary
The research provides an alternative insight to how Tokyo urbanites identify with Japanese society as a whole given the changes brought by modernization, consumerism and other western concepts or ideas like the American way of life. The study by using the novels of Murakami Haruki debunks some images of Japan as a homogenous and egalitarian society and instead offers a theory on a kind of emerging Japanese individualism, where self-cultivation is the center of ones identity.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Electronic
Accession Number
CDTG004065
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
1 computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in.
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Recommended Citation
Primavera, S. A. (2006). Individualism and identity in contemporary Japanese society as reflected in the novels and life of Murakami Haruki. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3387
