Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches

Social policies reflect important ideas about the relationship between the state and the individual. This book examines this relationship in a number of unexplored areas in Japanese society, including policies relating to fertility, perinatal care, child care, sexuality and elder care. It concludes that a major transformation occurred during the 1990s as a result of Japan's changing economy, demography and civil society. The volume challenges many Western preconceptions about Japanese society.

Author: Roger Goodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/26/2002
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.40w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780521815710

About the Author
Goodman, Roger: - Roger Goodman is lecturer in the social anthropology of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. His publications include Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan (2000) and The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State (1998).

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