City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward

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Univ of California Press, May 13, 2022 - History - 490 pages
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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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