中文摘要：

社会变迁是一种综合和立体的人文现象，其进程需要依据一定的学科原理，设计一种系列的具有高度概括性的指标来进行相对精确的测量。用根据现代化理论做成的四核心指标测量，可以发现战后日本社会现代化发展最显著的特征就是，在短短的70年里，一方面要完成现代化第一阶段未完成的指标，同时又不停顿地完成第二阶段的指标。第一阶段和第二阶段间的压缩发展，给日本社会带来了种种问题。亚洲其他国家早晚也会遇到这些问题，加强对亚洲国家社会的压缩现代化现象的研究就尤为显得重要。

英文摘要：

The Social change, a kind of comprehensive and multi - dimensional cultural phenomenon, should be measured according to certain disciplinary principles and with scientific evaluation. On the basis of the four core indicators concerning modernization theory, it can be discovered that the most outstanding feature of Japanese social modernization development is to achieve the indicators of both the first and second stages of modernization in such a short while as seventy years. The compression of periods of the first and second stages of modernization has brought about variety of issues for Japanese society, which other Asian developing countries will be faced with. It is very essential to study the compression of periods of the first and second stages of modernization among Asian countries.