Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan PDF
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)MAGINED&AMILIES ,IVED&AMILIES #ULTUREAND+INSHIPIN#ONTEMPORARY*APAN %DITEDBY!KIKO(ASHIMOTO*OHN74RAPHAGAN Imagined Families, Lived Families Imagined Families, Lived Families Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan Edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John W. Traphagan Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2008 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Production by Kelli W. LeRoux Marketing by Michael Campochiaro Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Imagined families, lived families : culture and kinship in contemporary Japan / edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John W. Traphagan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-7577-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7914-7578-2 (softcover : alk. paper) 1. Family—Japan. I. Hashimoto, Akiko, 1952– II. Traphagan, John W. HQ682.I43 2008 306.850952—dc22 2008003134 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to L. Keith Brown, who has been a friend and mentor to the editors and many others who have been fortunate to know and work with him over the years. We also wish to dedicate this book to the memory of Keiko McDonald, who passed away suddenly shortly before publication. All of us will miss her greatly. Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Changing Japanese Families 1 Akiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh John W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin Imagined Families 13 Chapter 2 Blondie, Sazae, and Their Storied Successors: Japanese Families in Newspaper Comics 15 Akiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh Chapter 3 From Spiritual Fathers to Tokyo Godfathers: Depictions of the Family in Japanese Animation 33 Susan J. Napier, Tufts University Chapter 4 Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old Problem 51 Keiko I. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh Lived Families 75 Chapter 5 Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ Families 77 Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai’i Chapter 6 Is “Japan” Still a Big Family? Nationality and Citizenship at the Edge of the Japanese Archipelago 111 Mariko Asano Tamanoi, UCLA viii Contents Chapter 7 Somone’s Old, Something’s New, Someone’s Borrowed, Someone’s Blue: Changing Elder Care at the Turn of the 21st Century 137 Susan Orpett Long, John Carroll University References 159 Contributors 169 Name Index 171 Subject Index 175
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