Part I. Values and beliefs : Human nature in the Japanese myths -- A culture of love and hate -- Japanese value orientations and culture change -- Intergenerational continuity and discontuinity in moral values among Japanese -- The relation of guilt toward parents to achievement and arranged marriage among the Japanese -- Part II. Patterns of interaction : Amae: A key concept for understanding Japanese personality structure -- Criteria of group formation -- Japanese management: The cultural background -- Reciprocity and the asymmetric principle: An analytical reappraisal of the Japanese concept of on -- Gift-giving in a modernizing Japan -- Part III. Socialization and psycho-social development maternal care and infant behavior in Japan and America : Who sleeps by whom? Parent-child involvement in urban Japanese families -- Parental-attitude toward twins in Japan -- "Graduation phobia" in the Japanese university -- Sponsorship of cultural continuity in Japan: A company training program -- The psychological interdependence of family, school, and bureaucracy in Japan -- Part IV. Cultural stress, extreme responses, and behavior transformation : Self-destruction in Japan: A cross-cultural epidemiological analysis of suicide -- Delinquent groups and organised crime -- Fear of eye-to-eye confrontation among neurotic patients in Japan -- A psychotherapy of neurosis: Morita therapy -- Naikan therapy -- Taishu Danko: Agency for change in a Japanese university -- Higaisha-Ishiki: The psychology of revolting youth in Japan

1. National characteristics
2. Japanese