Author Description

Introduction: Continuity And Change In Japanese Homes And Families / Richard Ronald And Allison Alexy -- 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 / Hiroko Takeda -- The Ideal, The Deficient, And The Illogical Family: An Initial Typology Of Administrative Household Units / Karl Jakob Krogness -- 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 / Ekaterina Hertog -- Masculinity And The Family System: The Ideology Of The Salaryman Across Three Generations / Tomoko Hidaka -- Working And Waiting For An Appropriate Person: How Single Women Support And Resist Family In Japan / Lynne Y. Nakano -- Home Ownership, Family Change And Generational Differences / Yosuke Hirayama -- Homes And Houses, Senses And Spaces / Richard Ronald -- The Changing Face Of Homelessness In Tokyo In The Modern Era / Akihiko Nishizawa -- Coping With Hikikomori: Socially Withdrawn Youth And The Japanese Family / Sachiko Horiguchi -- The Door My Wife Closed: Houses, Families, And Divorce In Contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy -- Living Apart Together: Anticipated Home, Family And Social Networks In Old Age / Anemone Platz. Edited By Richard Ronald And Allison Alexy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.