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Week 7: Households – family structure, housing, declining birthrates
Statistical Handbook of Japan:
Read Chapter 2, “Population” (section about Households) and Chapter 13, “Family Budgets and Prices”
Academic Articles (for the Active Learning Hours Portfolio):
Michael Fisch, “The Rise of the Chapel Wedding in Japan”
Any of the chapters in Allison Alexy and Emma Cook (Eds), Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict (University of Hawaii Press 2019) (1 chapter = 1 paper).
Links:
The “solitary death” phenomenon”
Divorce in Japan (child custody etc)