re: #198 researchok

Show me how academia has discredited the notion of shame/guilt societies.

That was your assertion

Please read Radical Democracy, A New Look at The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Japan’s Radical Constitution.

As well as being a generally fantastic book, it takes on the simplistic Western understanding of ‘shame’ in Japanese culture and shows how inadequate it is to view the culture through that prism.

Or read his papers on the subject.