Ueno (humanities and sociology, U. of Tokyo) provides a combination of sociological, historical, anthropological, and journalistic perspectives to her collection of essays that examine, among other th
This award-winning book brings together Chizuko Ueno's groundbreaking essays on the rise and fall of the modern family in Japan. Combining historical, sociological, anthropological, and journalistic m
A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different "narrator's" underst