目次

 Chapter One – Introduction, Chapter Two – From Mothering to Othering: Organization and Nap Time in a Japanese Preschool Chapter Three – The Gambaru Complex: Learning to Overcome Obstacles through Individual and Collective Action Chapter Four – Teachers' Meetings: Information, Quality Control and Decisions Chapter Five – A Sports Day in Suburban Japan: Leisure, artificial Communities and the Creation of Locality Chapter Six – Posing, Posturing and Photographic Presences: A Rite of Passage in a Japanese Commuter Village Chapter Seven – Sake and Spare Time: Management and Imbibement in Japanese Business Firms Chapter Eight – "Not-Precisely-Work": Golf, Entertainment and Drinking Among Japanese Business Executives in Singapore Chapter Nine – Coincident Events of Remembrance, Coexisting Spaces of Memory: The Annual Memorial Rites at Yasukuni Shrine. Chapter Ten – Public Events and Japanese the Self-Defense Forces: Aesthetics, Ritual Density and the Normalization of Military Violence Chapter Eleven – Power, Play and Transformation