Sleeping through Class to Success: Japanese notions of time and diligence

Time & Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-214

  Steger, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

diligence; high school; Japan; sleep; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748768207     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X06066952     Document Type: Article

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