Book · 2005 · Fiction
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Patterns of Japanese Culture
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So there's this famous book about Japan from the American perspective I'm guessing you've read it it's called The chrysanthemum and the sword it was published in I think 1946 by the cultural Anthropologist Ruth Benedict and she had been commissioned by the U.S government during World War II to write the book to help the U.S understand the Japanese.
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“so there's this famous book about Japan from the American perspective I'm guessing you've read it it's called The chrysanthemum and the sword it was published in I think 1946 by the cultural Anthropologist Ruth Benedict and she had been commissioned by the U.S government during World War II to write the book to help the U.S understand the Japanese”