Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note to the reader; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: where rationality and rituality meet; 2. Demystifying a discourse: the misuses of Japanese culture and the production of rationality; 3. The bureaucratized self: public, private, and civil society in Japan; 4. Japan's government: the bureaucratic blurring of state and society; 5. Rationality, bureaucracy, and belief in the state.
6. Japan's Ministry of Education: rationalizedschooling and the state7. The rationality of moral education: the state's visionof civil society; 8. Conclusion: lessons from Japan about state andsociety; Notes; Bibliography; Index.