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Journal of Biosocial Science, 1990
SummaryData from the 1985–86 Japanese census are analysed to explore the determinants of the divorce rates in Japan's forty-seven prefectures, using two theoretical models: (a) the social integration model, which is shown to have a greater utility in predicting Japanese divorce levels than (b), the human capital model. Female emigration patterns play a
H, Fukurai, J, Alston
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SummaryData from the 1985–86 Japanese census are analysed to explore the determinants of the divorce rates in Japan's forty-seven prefectures, using two theoretical models: (a) the social integration model, which is shown to have a greater utility in predicting Japanese divorce levels than (b), the human capital model. Female emigration patterns play a
H, Fukurai, J, Alston
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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan
, 2019PART 1 Context and background Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan YOSHIKAZU SHIOBARA 1 Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan NOAH McCORMACK AND KOHEI KAWABATA PART 2 Exclusionism and ethnic minorities 2 ...
Yoshikazu Shiobara +2 more
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2015
In recent years Japan has faced the rapid changes characterising the post-global world, vis-à-vis the economic crisis, as well as the new geopolitical equilibrium amongst the Asian countries after the economic and military rise of China. Moreover, the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster of March 2011 poses a series of questions about social solidarity ...
Calvetti, Paolo, Mariotti, Marcella
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In recent years Japan has faced the rapid changes characterising the post-global world, vis-à-vis the economic crisis, as well as the new geopolitical equilibrium amongst the Asian countries after the economic and military rise of China. Moreover, the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster of March 2011 poses a series of questions about social solidarity ...
Calvetti, Paolo, Mariotti, Marcella
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Oe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan
Monumenta Nipponica, 2000This text surveys the accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and other writers of the post-war generation, while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "post-Oe" generation. It includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, Ohba ...
Nina Cornyetz +2 more
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Uploading the ancestors: Experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan
Death Studies, 2018Domestic Buddhist altars have long provided symbolically and materially rich media for venerating the dead in Japan. However, as Japanese household structures and funerary rites are unsettled in the contemporary era, Buddhist altars (butsudan) are ...
Hannah Gould, T. Kohn, M. Gibbs
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Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan
, 2019Introduction Jeff Kingston Part 1: Political Environment 1. Japanese Politics: Mainstream or Exotic? Arthur Stockwin 2. The Politics of Trade Policy Aurelia George Mulgan 3.
Jeff Kingston
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Stigma and Childlessness in Historical and Contemporary Japan
Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, 2018Japanese women’s life courses have changed dramatically in recent history. Yet, transformation of the meanings and experiences of childlessness did not follow a linear, one-dimensional path.
Kimiko Tanaka, Deborah Lowry
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The Family Structure in Contemporary Japan
Japanese Economic Studies, 1993The applicability of models of the family developed in the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology to the modern Japanese family is considered. "Our aim is to understand the contemporary Japanese family from two perspectives: the family as an economic unit and the family as a social security provider based on the arrangement and analysis ...
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