TY - BOOK AU - Kitajima,Shigeru AU - Yokota,Hiroki TI - Continuity and discontinuity in the socio-economics of Yasuma Takata PY - 2019///. N1 - 57 N2 - This article has the following three objectives. The first is to display the thought and behavior of Japanese thinker Yasuma Takata (1883-1972), almost unknown in the West, who formulated a sociological theory and a socio-economic theory. The second is to examine how his thought and his behavior related to Japan wrong-doing during World War II and the issue of “responsibility/irresponsibility”. The third goal is to show that Takata’s thought actually remains deeply connected with modern Japanese currents of thought, as indicate thinker Masao Maruyama and fiction-writers Kenzaburo Ôe and Yasunari Kawabata. JEL codes: B15, B31, N45 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-philosophie-economique-2019-1-page-89?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -