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Difference and Modernity boomer and a wider perspective onThe question of postmodernity that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non Western society to develop independently a fully fledged capitalist industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to