Abstract
What changes have the principles organizing Japanese social systems gone through ? No Less than twenty years having passed after the high growth of Japanese economy ended, we now might sum up this period. According to Imada's theory of "Self-organization", Japanese society has become so enriched that her principal task now is not to aim at more richness by pushing on her system better to function, but to realize various needs of daily-life world even if Japanese society at large loses her richness. In other words, these needs are a driving power to steer our system towards the post-modern society. But at the basis of these needs lies what is called "Me-ism" which has led our system to disorganization rather than to reconstruction. In fact, Japanese society has instigated it in the process of transition from "Urbanizing society" to "Urbanized society", and lost sight of timehonored institutions like daily-life communities and "culture of poverty". Some people who are dissatisfied with this situation have had recourse to "pseud-communities and mock cultures" like "relay dial" or "chat", but such substitutes have no real power of regaining what is lost.
