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Economic Development versus Cultural Transformation: Projects of Modernity in Japan and Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Binnaz Toprak
Binnaz Toprak*
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Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University
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In Turkey, Japan has often been perceived as an industrial country that developed economically while keeping to its traditions. This perception has been especially strong among Islamists and conservatives who have been critical of the process of Westernization since the nineteenth century. In their view, Turkey understood modernity as imitation of Western culture but failed to industrialize. Japan, on the other hand, proved that it was possible to modernize while preserving one's tradition, religion, and culture. Hence, according to this analysis, Japan's successful transition from agrarian to industrial society was in stark contrast to the Turkish course of modernization.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 35: Special Issue on Comparative Turkish and Japanese Modernities , Fall 2006 , pp. 85 - 127
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