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349 index topics in this index refer to the nation of Japan, unless otherwise noted. topics and titles beginning with numbers are listed as though spelled out. For example, the “3/11 earthquake” is listed under “t”. tables are indicated by “t.” following the page number. Page numbers in italic type refer to figures. abe, aya, 290 abe sumi and abe Jin, 183 academic achievement and social class, 289–291 academic assessment, individual, 280; high school entrance exams, 284; national academic achievement tests, 295n1; prefectural public high school exam, 283–284. See also private tutorial and test preparation (juku) afterlife, 318, 329. See also ancestors age discrimination, 170–171, 177 aging, 12–18, 60, 170, 183; dependency and, 16, 52, 316, 328; of national population, 166–167, 230; of women (see older women) akademeia College, 253 alcoholics and their spouses, 74, 307 alexy, allison, 15, 73 all-female theater, 309–310 alternative lifestyles, 105 analects, recital of, 275, 276 ancestors, honoring, 12, 20, 124, 126, 270, 327, 330; ancestral tablet or altar (ihai), 320, 322, 324–25, 341 angel Plan/new angel Plan, 230 animal Divination (Dōbutsu Uranai), 253–254, 340. See also divination anthropological studies. See ethnographic research anti-Prostitution Law (Baishun Bōshi Hō), 205–206 anti-war messages, 282 aoba elementary school, 275, 276, 277t. aoki couple (convenience store owners), 150–151, 154, 157. See also convenience stores Asahi Shinbun (newspaper), 249, 316 ashikari, Mikiko, 307–308 ash-scattering ceremonies (shizensō), 316–317, 331, 344; collective, 327, 333; conventional mortuary practice and, 317, 334; familial distance and, 318. See also cremation asian rural institute (asia Gakuin), 106, 110 aspinall, robert w., 292, 293 automobiles. See car cultures; driving styles; K-cars (keijidōsha); sports cars; street racers (hashiriya) azumi factory, 28, 29–30, 32, 36, 37, 39, 55nn6–7, 55n11 Babel (iñárritu film), 202–203, 218 babysitters, non-family, 11, 15, 227, 239 Bachnik, Jane, 307 belonging, sense of, 223–224, 243, 333 Benedict, ruth, 185 Bestor, theodore: Neighborhood Tokyo, 7; Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society, 20 Bethel House, 217 binary oppositions, 305; in the cognitive structuring of space, 306, 307, 344 birthrate, 189. See also demographic changes blood-type divination (ketsueki-gata uranai), 251, 254, 255t., 255–256, 257, 265n4, 342; theory of Japanese “blood” and, 265–266n4. See also divination (uranai) blue-collar family. See Fujii family Boret, sébastien, 317 Borovoy, amy, 13, 15, 74, 225, 307–308, 323 Bourdieu, Pierre, theory of habitus, 42–43, 85–86 boxed lunches (bentō, obentō), 40, 151, 156, 339 boxed lunch factory (bentō), 38–39, 54, 56n17 Brasor, Phillip, 10, 22, 249 breast-feeding, 225, 232, 239 Brinton, Mary, 6, 14, 15, 30, 49, 52, 84, 170 brothels, 205–206; barrier-free, 202, 207–210; 350 InDeX “health clubs” providing sex services, 206–207. See also health clubs “bubble economy,” 1, 3, 33, 46, 100. See also economic growth bubble generation (baburu sedai), 1, 19, 81, 84, 85; women of, 3, 19, 81, 83, 86, 90, 99–103 Buddhism: Buddhist-style funerals, 327, 329–330; priests, 70–71 burakumin (minority) community, 282–283, 295n4, 339 Burawoy, Michael, 54 burial, 11, 20, 317, 318, 331. See also mortuary practices Cabinet Office of Japan, 14, 57 capitalist market system, 4, 7, 9, 82, 111, 119, 127, 129, 180; global capitalism, 2–3, 53, 165, 180. See also consumerism; consumption; economic growth; economic recession car cultures, 20, 300; gender metaphors and, 305t., 305–307. See also K-cars (keijidōsha); street racers (hashiriya) career women, 5, 19, 56n23, 89, 95, 108, 130, 204; of the bubble generation, 81, 83–85, 99–100; efforts to combine career and marriage, 97, 99, 166, 169, 171, 172, 179–181, 227; narratives of self-construction, 101–102; rejecting marriage for careers, 130 caregivers: daughters (especially unmarried) as, 74, 94–95, 191–192, 325; daughters-in-law as, 192, 193, 319; diversification of, 196, 319; for the elderly , 200n2; son (especially eldest) as, 94, 317 “carnivorous women” (nikushokukei joshi), 166, 343 Cave, Peter, 10, 13–14, 20, 57n30, 269, 271, 272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281, 283 chains, 142–143, 156. See also franchise stores; retail food regulations and practices Chiba University, 156 Chieko, wataya (deaf teen in Babel), 202–204 Child and Child-rearing support Plan, 230 child-rearing anxiety, 226, 228, 242–243; insecurities and stresses, 114, 225–229, 242, 243, 341 child-rearing, positive experiences, 240. See also networks of young mothers child-rearing support: commercial...

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