{"product_id":"perfectly-japanese-9780520235052","title":"Perfectly Japanese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre Japanese families in crisis? This title looks back at two key moments of \"family making\" in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. It portrays the everyday reality of a range of families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Japanese politicians have pronounced the declining birthrate a national crisis. White gives us an enlightening bolt of reality, showing how Japanese families are really coping with the enormous changes surrounding them.\" - Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor at Harvard and author of Is Japan Still Number One?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction  PART ONE: MAKING FAMILY--A NATION BEGINS AT HOME 1. Why Families Are a National Security Issue 2. Family Under Construction: One Hundred Years at Home 3. Families in Postwar Japan: Democracy and Reconstruction  PART TWO: CONTAINING ELEMENTS 4. Elemental Families: Starting with Children 5. Life Choices for Men and Women: The Bounded Realities of Reproduction 6. Twenty-First-Century Blues: Aging in Families  PART THREE: CONSUMING AS SURVIVAL 7. Marketing the Bite-Size Family: Consuming Images, Supporting Realities Conclusion: Exceptions Are the Rule--Families as Exemplars of Diversity  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767554900311,"sku":"9780520235052","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520235052.jpg?v=1758713775","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perfectly-japanese-9780520235052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}