TY - BOOK AU - Long,Susan Orpett AU - Roberts,Glenda Susan AU - Kawano,Satsuki ED - Project Muse. TI - Capturing contemporary Japan: differentiation and uncertainty SN - 9780824838706 AV - HC462.95 .C365 2014 U1 - 331.10952 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Japan KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: differentiation and uncertainty / Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long -- Work and life in challenging times: a Kansai family across the generations / Glenda S. Roberts -- Masculinity and aging in a straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later / Gordon Mathews -- Working women of the bubble generation / Sawa Kurotani -- "Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan / Nancy Rosenberger -- Shelf lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Single women in marriage and employment markets / Lynne Nakano -- The aging of the Japanese family: meanings of grandchildren in old age / Susan Orpett Long -- Barrier-free brothels: sex volunteers, prostitutes, and people with disabilities / Karen Nakamura -- Recreating connections: nonprofit organizations' attempts to foster networking among mothers of preschoolers / Satsuki Kawano -- The divination arts in girl culture / Laura Miller -- Education after the "lost decade(s)": stability or stagnation? / Peter Cave -- Lightweight cars and women drivers: the de/construction of gender metaphors in recessionary Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- The story of a seventy-three-year-old woman living alone: her thoughts on death rites -- Satsuki Kawano UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824838706/ ER -