BOOK REVIEW Experience of interpreting Japanese culture Review of the monograph by N.N. Izotova “Codes of Japanese Culture” ed. by Prof. Gurevich T.M.

Abstract

The article presents a review of the monograph by N.N. Izotova “Codes of Japanese Culture” (2021). The book provides a comprehensive culturological analysis of the cultural codes of Japan, reveals their ethnocultural specificity, their structure, methods of actualization and functioning, describes their semantic, pragmatic, poetically-figurative, conceptual and terminological features. The reviewer notes the advantages of the work, such as its authentic basis, reliance on the current realities of modern Japanese society, and a large amount of diverse information materials in Japanese and Russian.

Keywords

• japan
• culture
• spiritual code
• communication
• value system
• transformation