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The ubiquity of Japanese informality and Okinawan Moai (模合)

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One of the first things you'll hear when arriving in Japan, as a scholar of informality, is that while Japanese society may look very formal, with everything strictly controlled and formalized, in fact it is not. Eventually, although the informal practices you're used to observing abroad do not exist here, and may be strictly regulated, precisely where a foreigner would not expect to find informality is where informality will rule. In many respects, it may be said that Japan is like a "negative" of informality: whatever is formal in your country will be informal here, and vice versa.

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  • Polese, Abel, 2022. "The ubiquity of Japanese informality and Okinawan Moai (模合)," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 23(3), pages 31-37.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:econso:262996
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    1. Drini Imami & Klodjan Rama & Abel Polese, 2020. "Informality and access to finance during socialism and transition – the case of the rotating savings and credit schemes," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 30(5), pages 1367-1383, November.
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