Part 1; Chapter 1 Sociology in Japan; Chapter 2 The Modernization of Japanese Society; Chapter 3 Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period; Part 2 Part II; Chapter 4 A Critical Evaluation of the Sociological Thought of Tadashi Fukutake, Rural Sociologist of Postwar Japan; Chapter 5 Tradition and Community Power Structure in Japan; Chapter 6 The Citizens’ Movement against Environmental Destruction in Japan; Part 3 Part III; Chapter 7 The TennÅsei Ideology and Japan’s Wars of Aggression; Chapter 8 Japanese Capitalism and the Extended Family System – Modernization and Tradition in a Local Community; Chapter 9 The Japanese Images of the World;