however, they leave due to factors such as marriage,child birth, or to assume the role as caretaker. Over two-thirds of Japanese women leave their jobs when they have children and don’t come back. If a woman returns to the workforce after having children, it is usually 5-10 years ...
This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse performs. For single-earner couples, both husbands and wives are more satisfied with the other spouse if the wife performs the greater share of the housework on weekdays. In du...
the Supreme Court held that West Virginia could not make Jehovah’s Witness students salute and pledge allegiance to the American flag. The decision contained arguably the most famous singlesentence
The decision to come out is always one that must be taken at the involved person’s discretion, and at their preferred timing. Respect is most important, and recognising that no single aspect defines a person’s identity. For instance, in addition to being a gay man, I’m also a father...
18 On the other hand, although there exist many esoteric rituals in the Chinese Canon mentioning healing procedures by spiritual possession, there seems to be no single text where a servant deity plays the kind of role inferred from the Japanese rituals in the schema above. This is also the ...
Another woman in her 50s, from north Tokyo, expressed the opinion that it was clear to her: ‘… how hard Kōmeitō politicians work to realize policies such as free school fees or free medical care for high school students, for example; I can see them at work in the community. I never...
Washington would determine some broad theme-of-the-month (such as women’s empowerment) aimed at a domestic American audience. The theme would filter down to us at the PRT level and we were to concoct some sort of “project,” something tangible on the ground, preferably something that ...
2 Single Parent Family Policies and Workfare : Features of systemic reforms in Japan and issues pertaining thereto(From the Sub-sessions) Workfare is a policy that has attracted a considerable amount of interest in recent years as a modern approach to restructuring the welfare state. It has b...
The presentation of kikigaki is often an emotional event: A young woman told me she started crying because this was the first time she heard her grandmother’s story. Kikigaki records can easily be permeated by nostalgia at the individual level: A combination of a remembered, an imagined, ...
can without losing too much of her racial background. If even the artist of what some people call “black music” has to look white on the cover of her single to give the right impression, how white must be an Indian woman to be considered a good match for a preferably wealthy husband...