| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Kyoko Inoue. Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, number 35.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 262. $60.00.

One modernist question underlies linguistic historian Kyoko Inoue's second book on the translation of American notions of democratic citizenship: how did an essentially hierarchical Japanese society adapt an egalitarian notion of democratic subjectivity after World War II? Inoue focuses on the genealogy of the word jinkaku from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a literal translation of the Western concept of legal personhood to its later ambiguous use by moralists to express both human dignity and moral character. The inherent tension between the egalitarian and the hierarchical meanings of the term complicated Japan's postwar development as a democratic society. . . .

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