Public Opinion in America and Japan

How do Americans and Japanese see each other? This book examines American and Japanese public perceptions of economic and military relationships, attitudes towards family, work and women's roles, and satisfaction with democracy. Of special interest to the authors is an idea offered by Alexis de Tocqueville who argued that the whole planet would experience a revolution in which older, hierarchical cultures would be replaced by more egalitarian, individualist, and democratic ones such as that of the United States. The authors believe Japan in moving in this direction, but they reject the notion that the two societies are becoming the same.