Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan

193 Pages·2008·0.62 MB·English

by  Akiko Hashimoto, John W. Traphagan

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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
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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