The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the fami

These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and econo

The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the fami

The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship

This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regiona