……说我的假设过时了？这等于是在暗示日本人以前全都是步调一致的顺从者。关于这点我能长篇大论反驳你，不过我还是直接推荐你去读杉本良夫的教材《日本社会入门》（An Introduction To Japanese Society）吧。顺便提一句，我最喜欢的一位日本工程师曾信誓旦旦地坚称，iPod 不过就是个装了 Game Boy 的 Walkman。我觉得这种说法，简直和“日本只会改进别人发明的技术……”一样不客气。
…that my assumptions are out of date? That sort of implies that Japanese were once lockstep conformists. I could take issue with that, at length, but instead I'll refer you to Sugimoto's textbook "An Introduction To Japanese Society". P.S. One of my favorite Japanese engineers swears blind that the iPod is just a Walkman with a Game Boy in it. I think that is almost as unfair as "Japan just improves on technologies that were invented…
…surprised me much -- but I am blown away by the depths of details he's included here. I've only finished the section on the salaryman relationship, and it's phenomenal reading. Edit: the link to "An Introduction to Japanese Society" seems to be broken. Try this if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Japanese-Society-Yoshio-S...
……在其他地方，更好的切入角度是“大家常把日本描述成一个单一文化的国家，但事实并非如此”。这种说法既属实又新颖，还能借机引用一些书，比如杉本良夫的《日本社会入门》（一本非常优秀的学术著作），或者《理解日本的常识》（Making Common Sense of Japan，可惜绝版了，但作为一本书来说棒极了）。（举个 30 秒的例子：日本其实有规模相当大的少数族裔，比如……
…elsewhere, a better approach to take is "Japan is often described as a monocultural country but it is not." This is true, novel, and gives you the opportunity to drop e.g. a citation for Sugitomo's An Introduction to Japanese Society, which is a really excellent academic text, or Making Common Sense of Japan, which is sadly out of print but a fantastic book qua book. (30 second example: Japan has large ethnic minorities like e.g.…
……在整整 10 英寸的屏幕上看（得看好几本书才能把这笔投资摊销回来）。排版/标记：对于制作精良的学术书籍（以 Google Play 和杉本良夫的《日本社会入门》作为我的参考对象），像脚注这种东西的体验其实比纸质书还要好——你只要轻点一下蓝色高亮的角标，就会弹出一个内联浮层供你阅读，然后划一下……
…out on a full 10-inch screen (which need to be used on several books for the investment to amortize out correctly). Layout/markup: for well-done academic volumes (using Google Play and Sugimoto's "An Introduction to Japanese Society" as my reference piece) things like footnotes are actually a better experience than print - you tap a blue-highlighted superscript, and you get a model that pops up inline for you to read and then swipe…
……说我的假设过时了？这等于是在暗示日本人以前全都是步调一致的顺从者。关于这点我能长篇大论反驳你，不过我还是直接推荐你去读杉本良夫的教材《日本社会入门》（An Introduction To Japanese Society）吧。顺便提一句，我最喜欢的一位日本工程师曾信誓旦旦地坚称，iPod 不过就是个装了 Game Boy 的 Walkman。我觉得这种说法，简直和“日本只会改进别人发明的技术……”一样不客气。
…that my assumptions are out of date? That sort of implies that Japanese were once lockstep conformists. I could take issue with that, at length, but instead I'll refer you to Sugimoto's textbook "An Introduction To Japanese Society". P.S. One of my favorite Japanese engineers swears blind that the iPod is just a Walkman with a Game Boy in it. I think that is almost as unfair as "Japan just improves on technologies that were invented…
……倒没让我有多吃惊——但我确实被他在书里所展现的细节深度彻底震撼了。我才刚读完讲上班族关系那一节，读起来真是太棒了。补充说明：指向《日本社会入门》的链接好像挂了。感兴趣的话可以试试这个：http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Japanese-Society-Yoshio-S...
…surprised me much -- but I am blown away by the depths of details he's included here. I've only finished the section on the salaryman relationship, and it's phenomenal reading. Edit: the link to "An Introduction to Japanese Society" seems to be broken. Try this if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Japanese-Society-Yoshio-S...
……在其他地方，更好的切入角度是“大家常把日本描述成一个单一文化的国家，但事实并非如此”。这种说法既属实又新颖，还能借机引用一些书，比如杉本良夫的《日本社会入门》（一本非常优秀的学术著作），或者《理解日本的常识》（Making Common Sense of Japan，可惜绝版了，但作为一本书来说棒极了）。（举个 30 秒的例子：日本其实有规模相当大的少数族裔，比如……
…elsewhere, a better approach to take is "Japan is often described as a monocultural country but it is not." This is true, novel, and gives you the opportunity to drop e.g. a citation for Sugitomo's An Introduction to Japanese Society, which is a really excellent academic text, or Making Common Sense of Japan, which is sadly out of print but a fantastic book qua book. (30 second example: Japan has large ethnic minorities like e.g.…
……在整整 10 英寸的屏幕上看（得看好几本书才能把这笔投资摊销回来）。排版/标记：对于制作精良的学术书籍（以 Google Play 和杉本良夫的《日本社会入门》作为我的参考对象），像脚注这种东西的体验其实比纸质书还要好——你只要轻点一下蓝色高亮的角标，就会弹出一个内联浮层供你阅读，然后划一下……
…out on a full 10-inch screen (which need to be used on several books for the investment to amortize out correctly). Layout/markup: for well-done academic volumes (using Google Play and Sugimoto's "An Introduction to Japanese Society" as my reference piece) things like footnotes are actually a better experience than print - you tap a blue-highlighted superscript, and you get a model that pops up inline for you to read and then swipe…