Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Introduction / Anthony Elliott, Masataka Katagiri, Atsushi Sawai -- Part I. Traditions Of Social Thought -- 1. Prelude: Phenomenological Sociology In Japan / Nick Crossley -- Phenomenological Sociology In Japan And Its Significance For Contemporary Social Research / Kazuhisa Nishihara -- 2. Prelude: Takeshi Deguchi's Democracy And Critical Theory In Post-war Japanese Sociology / Axel Honneth -- Critical Theory And Its Development In Post-war Japanese Sociology: Pursuing True Democracy In Rapid Capitalist Modernization / Takeshi Deguchi -- 3. Prelude: On Passionate Dissent / Anthony Elliott -- Japanese Psychoanalysis As Deciphering The Japanese Unconsciousness And Supporting The Japanese Subject / Aiko Kashimura -- 4. Prelude: Structuralism, Post-structuralism And Thereafter / Daniel Chaffee -- Structuralism, Post-structuralism And Thereafter / Masahiro Ogino -- 5. Prelude: Risk And Reflexive Modernization / Roland Robertson -- Acceptance Of Beck's Theory In Japan: From Environmental Risks To Individualization / Midori Ito, Munenori Suzuki -- Part Ii. Issues In Japanese Social Theory -- 6. Prelude: The Three Selves In Japanese Society / Anthony Elliott -- The Three Selves In Japanese Society: Individualized, Privatized, And Psychologized Selves / Masataka Katagiri -- 7. Prelude: From Feminism To Postfeminism In Forty Years? / Laura Dales, Chilla Bulbeck -- Japanese Feminist Social Theory And Gender Equality / Yumiko Ehara -- 8. Prelude: Towards New Definitions Of Intimacy / Sam Han -- Network, Community And Culture / Tomohiko Asano -- 9. Prelude: Postmodern Social Theory / Eric L. Hsu -- Postmodernity / Atsushi Sawai -- 10. Prelude: Japanese Uniqueness Versus Globalization: A Reply To Professor Yui / Bryan S. Turner -- Globalization / Kiyomitsu Yui -- Afterword: Apollo's Chariot / Charles Lemert -- Index. Edited By Anthony Elliott, Masataka Katagiri And Atsushi Sawai. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.