Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families / Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy
Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family / Bruce White
Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform / Hiroko Takeda
The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units / Karl Jakob Krogness
"I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan / Ekaterina Hertog
Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations / Tomoko Hidaka
Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan / Lynne Y. Nakano
Home ownership, family change and generational differences / Yosuke Hirayama
Homes and houses, senses and spaces / Richard Ronald
The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa
Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi
The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy
Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age / Anemone Platz.