Japanese encounters : the structure and dynamics of cultural frames / Eyal Ben-Ari.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.

From mothering to othering : organization and nap time in a Japanese preschool -- The Gambaru complex : learning to overcome obstacles through individual and collective action -- Teachers' meetings : information, quality control and decisions -- A sports day in suburban Japan : leisure, artificial communities and the creation of locality -- Posing, posturing and photographic presences : a rite of passage in a Japanese commuter village -- Sake and spare time : management and imbibement in Japanese business firms -- "Not-precisely-work" : golf, entertainment and drinking among Japanese business executives in Singapore -- Coincident events of remembrance, coexisting spaces of memory : the annual memorial rites at Yasukuni Shrine -- Public events and Japanese the Self-Defense Forces : aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence breaking and creating boundaries -- Power, play and transformation.