Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society

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Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society

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John W. Traphagan - Editor
John Knight - Editor

SUNY series in Aging and Culture
SUNY series in Japan in Transition

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Hardcover - 256 pages

Release Date: January 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5649-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5649-1

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 256 pages

Release Date: January 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5650-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5650-7

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Summary

A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

Incorporating qualitative and quantitative data and research methods from both demography and social anthropology, this book explores demographic trends in contemporary Japan's rapidly aging society. The contributors describe and analyze trends by addressing the ways in which demographic change is experienced in the context of family. The book considers the social effects, welfare issues, and private and public responses to demographic change and how this change has influenced the experiences of family caregivers and the elderly themselves. It offers both a specific regional contribution to the emerging field of demographic anthropology and an anthropological contribution to cross-disciplinary research on aging.

“There is … a lot that can be gleaned from this volume about changing patterns of Japanese kinship and concepts of welfare and morality.” — Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"This important intellectual contribution is an effort to integrate those fields that are often artificially separated in academia. This book is interesting, novel, and timely." — Akiko Hashimoto, author of The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract

Contributors include Naomi Brown, Brenda Robb Jenike, Toshiko Kaneda, Satsuki Kawano, John Knight, C. Scott Littleton, Susan Orpett Long, James M. Raymo, Leng Leng Thang, Christopher S. Thompson, and John W. Traphagan.

John W. Traphagan is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan, published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Kiyotaka Aoyagi and Peter J. M. Nas) of Toward Sustainable Cities: Readings in the Anthropology of Urban Environments. John Knight is Lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the editor of Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Study of the Family in Japan: Integrating Anthropological and Demographic Approaches
John Knight and John W. Traphagan

Family and Living Arrangements

2. Changes in the Living Arrangements of Japanese Elderly: The Role of Demographic Factors
James M. Raymo and Toshiko Kaneda

3. Under One Roof: The Evolving Story of Three Generation Housing in Japan
Naomi Brown

Coping with Demographic Change

4. Generational Reengagements: Changing Demographic Patterns and the Revival of Intergenerational Contact in Japan
Leng Leng Thang

5. Depopulation in Rural Japan: “"Population Politics" in Towa-cho
Christopher S. Thompson

6. Repopulating the Village?
John Knight

7. Finding Common Ground: Family, Gender, and Burial in Contemporary Japan
Satsuki Kawano

Demographic Change and Aging

8. Trends in the Quantity and Quality of Life at Older Ages in Japan
Toshiko Kaneda and James M. Raymo

9. Parent Care and Shifting Family Obligations in Urban Japan
Brenda Robb Jenike

10. Contesting Coresidence: Women, In-laws, and Health Care in Rural Japan
John W. Traphagan

Epilogue

11. Demographic and Family Change: Problems and Solutions
Susan O. Long and C. Scott Littleton

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Related Subjects

Anthropology
Asian Studies
Gerontology/Aging Studies
Sociology

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