ABSTRACT
Reprinted from City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958). R. P. Dore is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition to City Life in Japan, from which this chapter is taken, he is the author of Land Reform in Japan and Education in Tokugawa Japan, which is one of the finest studies ever conducted of the relationship between an educational system and the social organization of which it was a part.
