Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation /
edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- 278 p. : ill.
- Japan anthropology workshop series .
Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families / Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family / Bruce White -- Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform / The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units / "I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan / Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations / Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan / Home ownership, family change and generational differences / Homes and houses, senses and spaces / The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age / Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy -- Hiroko Takeda -- Karl Jakob Krogness -- Ekaterina Hertog -- Tomoko Hidaka -- Lynne Y. Nakano -- Yosuke Hirayama -- Richard Ronald -- Akihiko Nishizawa -- Sachiko Horiguchi -- Allison Alexy -- Anemone Platz. HKBU Library
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Families--Japan. Home--Japan. Households--Japan. Social change--Japan.