The Paradox of Honor and Shame in the Japanese Culture

A lot of scholarship on honor and shame has been shown to be reductionistic in the last 20 or 30 years. Anthropologists no longer believe that there are things called honor and shame societies. But it's more that the move to reduce entire societies to a fixation on honour and shame ignores the fact that honor and shame are present in every society, honor, shame and guilt to varying extents.