Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society

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

Author: John W. Traphagan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 01/30/2003
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.94w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780791456507

About the Author
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.

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