Abstract
It is necessary, I think, to discern two modes of transformation of modernity.The nature of modernity becomes to be transformed, on the one hand, under the impact of the evolution of society, and on the other hand, during the diffusion from western societies to non-western. The former temporal-historical transformation, which is realized typically in western, is to be called “post-modern”, and the latter spacial-geographic transformation, which can be recognized in a pure form in the Japanese modernizing process, is to be named “hybrid-modern”. Considering the modernity in Japan, postmodern phenomena are seemingly very analogious to hybrid modern, but we should not confuse one with another.
