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The Japanese numbers game
The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Editorial Board:
J.A.A.Stockwin, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies,
University of Oxford and Director, Nissan Institute of Japanese
Studies
Teigo Yoshida, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo, and
now Professor, The University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo
Frank Langdon, Professor, Institute of International Relations,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Alan Rix, Professor of Japanese, The University of Queensland
Junji Banno, Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Other titles in the series:
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Peter Dale
The Emperor’s Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and pre-war Japanese
Politics,
Lesley Connors
Understanding Japanese Society,
Joy Hendry
Japanese Religions,
Brian Bocking
Japan in World Politics,
Reinhard Drifte
A History of Japanese Economic Thought,
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Japan,
Junji Banno, translated by J.A.A.Stockwin
Japan’s First Parliaments 1890–1910,
R.H.P.Mason,
Andrew Fraser, and Philip Mitchell
Industrial Relations in Japan: the peripheral workforce,
Norma Chalmers
Banking Policy in Japan: American attempts at reform during the
occupation,
William Minoru Tsutsui
Educational Reform in Contemporary Japan,
Leonard Schoppa
How the Japanese Learn to Work,
Ronald Dore and Mari Sako
Militarization in Contemporary Japan,
Glenn Hook
Japanese Economic Development: theory and practice,
Penelope Francks
Japan and Protection,
Javed Maswood
Japan’s Nuclear Development,
Michael Donnelly
The Soil, by Nagatsuka Takashi: a portrait of rural life in Meiji
Japan,
translated and introduced by Ann Waswo
Biotechnology in Japan,
Malcolm Brock
Britain’s Educational Reform: a comparison with Japan,
Michael Howarth
Language and the Modern State: the reform of written Japanese,
Nanette Twine
Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: the invention of a tradition,
W.Dean Kinzley
Japanese Science Fiction: a view of a changing society,
Robert Matthew
The Japanese numbers
game
The use and understanding of
numbers in modern Japan
Thomas Crump
London and New York
First published 1992
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1992 Thomas Crump
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Crump, Thomas
The Japanese numbers game: the use and understanding of
numbers in modern Japan.
1. Japan. Numbers. Sociology
I. Title
II. Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
306.45
ISBN 0-203-03897-5 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-22170-2 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-05609-8 (Print Edition)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Crump, Thomas.
The Japanese numbers game: the use and understanding of numbers
in modern Japan/Thomas Crump.
p.
cm.— (The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-05609-8
1. Folklore—Japan.
2. Numerals—Folklore.
3. Symbolism of
numbers—Japan.
4. Japan—Civilization—1945–
5. Japan—Social
life and customs.
I. Title.
II. Series.
GR340.C78 1992
398
.356
0952–dc20
91–10047
CIP
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