00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613162707 Buklod 20191024162723.0 m q i ta 191024s2014 xx d r |||| u| 9780824838690 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780824838683 (cloth : alk. paper) (iLib)UPD-00414267351 DLC DAC rda eng DMLUC HC 462.95 C37 2014 Capturing contemporary Japan differentiation and uncertainty edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, Susan Orpett Long. Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2014] viii, 360 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index . 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. Japan Economic conditions 21st century. Japan Social conditions 21st century. Kawano, Satsuki 1966- editor of compilation. Roberts, Glenda Susan 1955- editor of compilation. Long, Susan Orpett editor of compilation. FO UPD DAC HC 462.95 C37 2014 Book