6-0190 CAPTURING JAPAN AFTER THE LOST DECADE

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges

Organizers: Satsuki Kawano (University of Guelph)

Chairs: Susan O Long (John Carroll University)

08:00

Japanese Salary Women: 25 Years After the EEOL

Sawa Kurotani (University of Redlands)

08:15

Single Women In Tokyo: Finding Meaning Beyond Marriage

Lynne Y Nakano (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

08:30

Changing Meanings and Experiences of Aging, Disability, and Elder Care In Japan

Brenda R. Jenike (Lawrence University)

08:45

Call Girls and Crips: Intersections of Disability and Sexuality In a Dark Japan

Karen Nakamura (Yale University)

09:00

Organic Agriculture In Japan: Revitalizing the Old and Remaking the New Through Food

Nancy R Rosenberger (Oregon State University)

09:15

Creating New Social Relationships Through Death:Ecological Concerns and Memorialisation In a Japanese Tree Burial

Sebastien Boret (Oxford Brookes University)

09:30

Avoiding the Mount of the Dead: Influence of Mediatic Narratives and Local Negotiations of Meaning In Osorezan

Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto University)

09:45

Break

10:00

K-Kuruma and the Changing Metaphorical Basis for Gender Norms In Recessionary Japan

Joshua H Roth (Mount Holyoke College and Mount Holyoke College)

10:15

Family Size and the Availability of Support for Childrearing: The Perceptions of Mothers of Preschoolers Living In Tokyo

Satsuki Kawano (University of Guelph)

10:30

Family and Globalization

L K Brown (University of Pittsburgh)

10:45

Family and Work Beyond the Lost Decade: A Kansai Family’s Legends and Legacies

Glenda S Roberts (Waseda University)

11:00

The Dashed Dreams of Twenty Years Later: How Some Japanese Lives Have Changed Since the Boom

Gordon C Mathews (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

11:15

The Aging of the Japanese Family

Susan O Long (John Carroll University)

11:30

Discussion

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