ABSTRACT
For the world, and particularly for the West, there is today a ‘Japanese problem’. As the only non-Western state in the world to have made a complete success of its modernization, and because it manages to compete with the West in nearly all fields of economic competition without having had to abandon its own identity, Japan is making waves in the organization of the Western world. Through its ability to become westernized without denying its own self, a triumphant Japan in a way symbolizes the end of the westernization of the world.
