My Neighbours the Yamadas (Takahata, 1999) Introduction to Academic Contexts: Isolade Standish identifies the existence of much debate within Western academic discourse surrounding Japanese modernity. Key periods which these concern are cited in post-war economic booms as well as much earlier, during the Meji Restoration of 1868 (2006, 29-30). However, these are generally all related to industrial capitalism in the form of urbanisation, progress defined by a “cult of success”
