Author: John Mogey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111727793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520939425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.

Author: University of Michigan. Audio-Visual Education Center
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Jean Cuisenier
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110802384
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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No detailed description available for "The family life cycle in European societies".

Author: Franklin Ng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780815326915
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The United States has seen several anti-Asian movements, as evidenced by immigration policies, naturalization laws, state and local statutes, and acts of violence. In recent years, Asian Americans have mobilized against prejudice and discrimination, organizing media groups and panethnic coalitions to achieve greater political effectiveness. These essays address recent issues of interethnic relations and conflict and politics in Asian American communities, ranging from the Japanese American redress movement for unjustified World War II internment, Japan-bashing, the model minority stereotype, resistance to urban renewal, interethnic conflicts with other groups, Asian American politics, Asian American panethnicity, and involvement in ancestral homeland politics.

Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2040

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Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: David W. Plath
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438416229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan—despite misleading Western images of lifetime employment—is no better than in other industrial nations. The "group model" of Japanese society that has been in fashion in the West confuses the goals of an organization with the personal aims and aspirations of its members. Like workers anywhere, those in Japan must go through life reconciling their duties to the job with their often conflicting obligations to family, to community, and to self-respect. Career outcomes are anything but certain in Japan—once we see them from a worker's point of view. Work and Lifecourse in Japan is a collection of workers' eye-level reports on career development in a variety of Japanese organizations and professions. In addition, there are overview chapters on employment trends in the Japanese economy, and on the problems of scheduling one's life-events in the demanding milieu of our post-industrial world.

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.