Table of Contents

Part 1 Linguistics: acquisition of spatial expression by Japanese-speaking children; nominal syntax with special regard to nominative constructions; the importance of a Korean source on the Ryukyuan languages; subjective or objective - a comparison of utterance types in Japanese and Norwegian; diachronic correspondence in the Japanese dialects; spontaneity and causativity; lexical accent assignment in standard Japanese. Part 2 Literature: young and politically incorrect - Oe Kenzaburo's "Early Heroes"; a genealogy of "Sokkyo Shijin" in the world of Mori Ogai - from translation to creative writing; the lyric voice in modern Japanese poetry; varieties of national narrative in Meiji Japan; marriages made in Otogizoshi (Japanese fairy tales); Mishima Yukio and Raymond Radiguet. Part 3 Culture and society: the control of Danish subsidiaries in Japan - socio-cultural interfaces; Ninsokuyoseba - how Kamagasaki works; RI and KI in Japanese thought; the mythical contruction of tradition and contemporary Japanese international relations; Japanese-style democracy; the unique, the ordinary and general lessons from Tokyo urbanism; applying hermeneutics to the studies of discourses on welfare.