... of the Elderly in Japan . By Youngmei Wu . New York : Routledge . 2004 . xv , 224 pp. $170.00 (cloth). Social Welfare in Japan: Principles and Applications . By Kojun Furkawa . Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press , 2008 . xi , 425 pp. $109.95 Aus (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...Seung-Kyung Kim Korean Elderly Women in America: Everyday Life, Health, and Illness . By Keum-Young Chung Pang . New York : AMS Press, Inc. , 1991 . 353 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 402 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES religion approaches...

...Andrea Sankar Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution . By Deborah Davis-Friedmann . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1983 . 160 pp. Notes, Index, Photographs. $20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...Sarah Lamb India's Elderly: Burden or Challenge? . By S. Irudaya Rajan , U.S. Mishra , and P. Sankara Sarma . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1999 . 356 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Social Aging in a Delhi Neighborhood . By John van Willigen and Narender K. Chadha . Westport, Conn...

...John W. Traphagan Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the U.S.: Practices and Policies . Edited by Susan Orpett Long . London : Routledge , 2000 . xviii, 358 pp. $100.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 558 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

.... Empirically, the article examines the resilient roles of family members and relatives in childcare and elderly care in Vietnam and many other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as the related trend of relatively low public social expenditures in most East and Southeast Asian societies. The long...

...Eve Monique Zucker Abstract “I wish for you two boys and two girls,” the elderly man pronounced. He was addressing both myself and my fiancé as he reached out to shake our hands as we were leaving his traditional wooden house. He had told us earlier that he spends his days in this late chapter...

... Abstract The Journal 's August 1995 issue (54.3) carried an error in Brian Woodall's review of Albrecht Rothacher's The Japanese Power Elite , pp. 223–24. Paragraph 1, line 6 reads “…with some ¥400 elderly men…” The yen sign should not have appeared in the text. The Journal 's August 1995 issue...

... dependent on large populations of immigrant workers. Instead of importing immigrants, Japan was able to meet its increasing demand for unskilled labor power by effectively mechanizing and rationalizing production and further utilizing untapped sources of labor (female and elderly workers). Because...

... a number of useful studies on aging in Asia. In the early 1980s, C. Ikels (Aging and Adaptation: Chinese in Hong Kong and the United States), for example, offered a portent of the problems Asian society would face when their small elderly population suddenly mushroomed. This has begun to occur. Thus...

... of life." More pointedly, he tests gerontological theories such as the relation of modernization to the status and integration of the aged, and the question of "disengagement" with data assembled largely from voluminous Japanese studies of the elderly. Much of the information is presented here...

... of welfare services, she presents a sophisticated cross-cultural account of how culture impacts a society's patterns of support for the elderly. Only a social contract can guarantee regularized giving when continued support is not in the interests of the givers. This contract, she argues, balances...

... are related to pensions and health care. His objective calls for examining government policies regarding these problems by using his theory of policy change that he explains in detail in chapter 2. His approach is to chronologically describe the history of pension and health care policies for the elderly. He...

... Thomas . [1798] 1970 . An Essay on the Principle of Population . Edited by Antony Flew . London : Penguin . Mason Andrew , and Ronald Lee , 2006 . “ Reform and Support Systems for the Elderly in Developing Countries: Capturing the Second Demographic Dividend .” Genus 62 : 11 – 35...

... to the status and integration of the aged, and the question of "disengagement" with data assembled largely from voluminous Japanese studies of the elderly. Much of the information is presented here for the first time in English; unfortunately, the study is marred by what, in my opinion, are some...

... two coauthors are physicians who have published extensively on the elderly, Ichiro Tsuji and Shigeru Hisamichi, Tohoku University School of Medicine. The concepts behind these two initiatives include the goals of lifelong learning, volunteerism, normalization (for the frail and institutionalized...

... of Iwate Prefecture. As the author points out, the image of inaka 230 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (rural/country) is often a negative one for young people who head to larger cities for stimulation and jobs and a more positive one for the elderly who value the continuity, history, and rootedness the term...

... important reasons for the high participation level. Low pensions and an increasing reluctance to become dependent on children brought on by the lack of clarity about responsibility for elderly parents since the postwar abolition of eldest-son inheritance of property and responsibility also provide strong...