The Family Structure in Contemporary Japan

Hiroshi Miyajima

Japanese Economy, 1993, vol. 21, issue 6, 25-53

Abstract: Several representative models of the family can be constructed from studies of the family in sociology and cultural anthropology. We have attempted elsewhere (Chapter 4 of the present book) to integrate them with economic theories of saving and social security. In what follows, we want to examine to what extent those models are applicable to the modern Japanese family. Our aim is to understand the contemporary Japanese family from two perspectives: the family as an economic unit and the family as a social security provider based on the arrangement and analysis of materials and statistics concerning current structure, form, type, and size of the contemporary Japanese family.

Date: 1993
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