Capturing contemporary Japan : differentiation and uncertainty /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Kawano, Satsuki, 1966- (Editor), Roberts, Glenda Susan, 1955- (Editor), Long, Susan Orpett (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Japan > Economic conditions > 21st century. Japan > Social conditions > 21st century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: differentiation and uncertainty / Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long
Work and life in challenging times: a Kansai family across the generations / Glenda S. Roberts
Masculinity and aging in a straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later / Gordon Mathews
Working women of the bubble generation / Sawa Kurotani
"Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan / Nancy Rosenberger
Shelf lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Single women in marriage and employment markets / Lynne Nakano
The aging of the Japanese family: meanings of grandchildren in old age / Susan Orpett Long
Barrier-free brothels: sex volunteers, prostitutes, and people with disabilities / Karen Nakamura
Recreating connections: nonprofit organizations' attempts to foster networking among mothers of preschoolers / Satsuki Kawano
The divination arts in girl culture / Laura Miller
Education after the "lost decade(s)": stability or stagnation? / Peter Cave
Lightweight cars and women drivers: the de/construction of gender metaphors in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth
The story of a seventy-three-year-old woman living alone: her thoughts on death rites
Satsuki Kawano.