City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo WardThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958. |
Contents
Aims and Limitations page | 3 |
Shitayamacho | 11 |
LEVELS AND STANDARDS OF LIVING | 27 |
Some Sketches | 29 |
Houses and Apartment Blocks | 40 |
Family Income and Expenditure | 53 |
Health and Security | 63 |
Progress and Planning | 77 |
Political Attitudes | 210 |
Education | 227 |
Leisure | 242 |
Neighbours and Friends | 253 |
The Ward | 269 |
Main Trends of Religious Development page | 291 |
Family Rites | 312 |
The Individual and the Kami | 329 |
THE FAMILY | 89 |
The Japanese Family System | 91 |
Household Composition in Shitayamacho | 121 |
The House | 136 |
Husbands and Wives | 157 |
THE WIDER WORLD | 189 |
Getting on | 191 |
PresentDay Religious Teachings | 339 |
Beliefs of the Uncommitted | 362 |
Society and the Individual | 374 |
Enquiry Methods | 395 |
Social Insurance Schemes in Force in 1951 | 405 |
Ward Association Annual General Meeting | 414 |
Forms and Occasions of Butsudan Worship | 427 |
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