By Kaori H. Okano
ISBN-10: 0203882377
ISBN-13: 9780203882375
ISBN-10: 0415469414
ISBN-13: 9780415469418
This e-book examines younger women in Japan, focusing specifically on their transitions to maturity, their conceptions of maturity and kinfolk with eastern society extra more often than not. Drawing on unique basic examine together with a year-long commentary of excessive faculties and next interviews over a 12 12 months interval, it lines the studies of a gaggle of operating type girls from their final yr of high-schooling in 1989 via to 2001 as they approached their thirties. It considers very important elements of the transition to maturity together with employment, marriage, divorce, childbirth and custody. It exhibits how the function and identities of younger women replaced over the process the Nineteen Nineties, exploring the effect of alterations inside jap society and international forces, and explains absolutely the consequences for traditional kids and their daily lives. It considers to what volume younger women’s perceptions of themselves and society are transferring, and the way some distance this is often defined via exterior constraints and their very own studies and judgements.
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I have known these women since 1989 when they were 17-year-old high school students. My focus in this book is the changes they underwent in their transitions to adulthood; but readers need to know that I myself was impacted by changes over the same period. Throughout this book, readers will see me and hear my voice, sometimes as a researcher with knowledge of academic literature and at other times as a person who carries particular baggage of the personal past and present. The researcher and the private citizen are not often separable.
These girls came from a particular shitamachi (literally, downtown) area of the city. 1 It is in two shitamachi wards that the girls in this study were born and brought up, and from which their high schools received the majority of their students. 2 The Kobe-city population included 28,000 Koreans in 1988, around the time of the original fieldwork. If Japanese nationals with a Korean ethnic background had been included, the number would have been larger. The two shitamachi wards, where most of the girls resided, included a relatively larger percentage of these minority groups than other wards in the city.
This description includes a brief illustration of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji earthquake that affected the city and these women and their families in many different ways. I shall then explain my relationship with the women, which has evolved gradually over the years, since this is crucial for understanding the nature of the data that I collected and how I interpreted them. Kobe: a city in the Hanshin conurbation Kobe is one of the largest cities in the Hanshin conurbation of western Japan. The city originally stood on a long narrow coastal strip bounded by 22 A longitudinal ethnography steep mountains running parallel to the coast; but now covers a much more extensive area, having gradually expanded its territory over the mountains.
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