附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Robert J. Smith -- Introduction / Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- Conflict, legitimacy, and tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood / Theodore C. Bestor -- The spatial layout of hierarchy: residential style of the modern Japanese nobility / Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- Christmas cakes and wedding cakes: the social organization of Japanese women's life course / Mary C. Brinton -- Life on Obasuteyama, or Inside a Japanese institution for the elderly / Diana Lynn Bethel -- Under the silk banner: the Japanese company and its overseas managers / Tomoko Hamada -- Doing and undoing "female" and "male" in Japan: the Takarazuka revue / Jennifer Robertson -- Death by Defeatism and other fables: the social dynamics of the Rengo Sekigun Purge / Patricia G. Steinhoff.