Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies

Author/Contributor(s):	Rupp, Katherine
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	06/10/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at the personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan.