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Cultural manifold analysis on national character

Cultural manifold analysis on national character CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Cultural manifold analysis on national character, by Ryozo Yoshino, Singapore, Springer, 2021, 168 pp., 108,99 € (hardcover), ISBN 978-981-16-1672-3; 85,59 € (eBook), ISBN 978-981-16-1673-0 Cultural Manifold Analysis is a statistical method grown into a subdiscipline of mathema- tical statistics, and Ryozo Yoshino is one of its most prominent representatives. In this book he explains its philosophy and the role it played and continues to play in Japanese social survey research carried out by anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists. He begins by retracing the history of the method and how the Japanese state was involved in its genesis. The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) where it originated was established under the control of the Ministry of Education in 1944 and was intended to assist the war efforts. After the war, Japanese researchers, as Yoshino puts it, “took off their military uni- forms” and under guidance of the US-led occupation developed instruments for statistical marketing surveys and “a scientific opinion poll system for democracy” (p. 3). This is a point of major interest. Making scientific research subservient to war is something many scientists find objectionable, even unethical. However, to assume that the world will be all right again http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Cultural manifold analysis on national character

Coulmas, Florian
Contemporary Japan , Volume OnlineFirst: 2 – Oct 10, 2021
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Cultural manifold analysis on national character

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Cultural manifold analysis on national character, by Ryozo Yoshino, Singapore, Springer, 2021, 168 pp., 108,99 € (hardcover), ISBN 978-981-16-1672-3; 85,59 € (eBook), ISBN 978-981-16-1673-0 Cultural Manifold Analysis is a statistical method grown into a subdiscipline of mathema- tical statistics, and Ryozo Yoshino is one of its most prominent representatives. In this book he explains its philosophy and the role it played and continues to play in...
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Cultural manifold analysis on national character, by Ryozo Yoshino, Singapore, Springer, 2021, 168 pp., 108,99 € (hardcover), ISBN 978-981-16-1672-3; 85,59 € (eBook), ISBN 978-981-16-1673-0 Cultural Manifold Analysis is a statistical method grown into a subdiscipline of mathema- tical statistics, and Ryozo Yoshino is one of its most prominent representatives. In this book he explains its philosophy and the role it played and continues to play in Japanese social survey research carried out by anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists. He begins by retracing the history of the method and how the Japanese state was involved in its genesis. The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) where it originated was established under the control of the Ministry of Education in 1944 and was intended to assist the war efforts. After the war, Japanese researchers, as Yoshino puts it, “took off their military uni- forms” and under guidance of the US-led occupation developed instruments for statistical marketing surveys and “a scientific opinion poll system for democracy” (p. 3). This is a point of major interest. Making scientific research subservient to war is something many scientists find objectionable, even unethical. However, to assume that the world will be all right again

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