ABSTRACT
THE JAPANESE VOCABULARY OF TIME Every culture has to wrestle with the problem of dealing with the concept of time. Time is seen as something to which we are all subject, but which can and indeed must be regulated, if not mastered. Leach suggests that all aspects of time are derived from ‘two basic experiences: (1) that certain phenomena of nature repeat themselves and (2) that life change is irreversible (Leach 1966:125).
