Understanding Humor in Japan

by Annabeth Albert

A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese.

Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331653
• ISBN13: 9780814331651
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.9"