1. Changing Japanese Families
Akiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh
John W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin
Imagined Families
2. Blondie, Sazae, and Their Storied Successors: Japanese Families in Newspaper Comics
Akiko Hashimoto, University of Pittsburgh
3. From Spiritual Fathers to 'Tokyo Godfathers: Depictions of the Family in Japanese Animation
Susan J. Napier, Tufts University
4. Agony of Eldercare: Two Japanese Women Directors Study an Age-Old Problem
Keiko I. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh
Lived Families
5. Mass Arrests, Sensational Crimes and Stranded Children: Three Crises for Japanese New Left Activists’ Families
Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawai’i
6. Is “Japan” Still a Big Family? Nationality and Citizenship at the Edge of the Japanese Archipelago
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, UCLA
7. Somone’s Old, Something’s New, Someone’s Borrowed, Someone's Blue: Changing Elder Care at the Turn of the 21st Century
Susan Orpett Long, John Carroll University
References
Contributors
Index