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Using "the Japanese problem" as a corrective to the ethnocentricity of Western theory
1University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822, USA. tobin@hawaii.edu
Child Development
|December 7, 2000
Abstract:
This reflection on the essay by Rothbaum, Pott, Azuma, Miyake, and Weisz focuses on how knowledge about Japanese psychological development and culture can serve as a corrective to the ethnocentrism of Western theory. Particular attention is given to the Japanese cultural concepts of amae and kejime.