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Japan: The Childless Society? Chap 3. Fathers

Exploring the lack of contact between Japanese fathers and children, societal expectations, historical context, and modern challenges. Reflects on filial piety and changing family dynamics.

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Japan: The Childless Society? Chap 3. Fathers

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  1. Japan: The Childless Society?Chap 3. Fathers Jolivet, Muriel. 1997.

  2. Do Japanese Fathers love their children • Distinct lack of contact between Father's and Children -- 37.4% no contact during week • Aside -- personal reflection on the relationships between family members I've seen • "...Japanese men have the extraodinary ability of living as though nobody else was there."

  3. The Family Service (kazoku saibus) 1. What is the German situation? 2. What is pettoka? • Guilty Conscience

  4. Fathers were not always this way 1. Before the Meiji what were things like and why? 2. Bushi or Bushido -- The samuri, the way of the samuri (highly disciplined and directed lives) In the Meiji era what becomes the defined role of the mother and father and why? Who is defining these new roles? and why? 3. What is meant by Doi Takeo's statement "...Japan has become a Fatherless society".

  5. A week in the life of a Tokyo salary man【字幕付き】 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8IPh64rVM

  6. Do You love your father 1. How do the children feel about their fathers?

  7. Do You love your father …”in Japan Despite the lack of enthusiasm, the desire to communicate more, not to worry him (91 per cent as opposed to 58.6 per cent (USA) and 87.1 per cent (Germany)) …as well as a wish to look after him later in life …all indicate the existence of a sense of duty as well as a notion of filial piety. What kind of teaching here?

  8. Fathers: Absentee or Ostracized? 1. Who's fault is the marginalization of Fathers? Is it men? Is it women? Is it something else? to answer this consider the question of men attending PTA meetings. … “father(s) will hesitate before collecting his children from the crèche [day care] for fear of being thought a failure.”

  9. … “fathers have gradually become excluded from the family cocoon”

  10. Fathers: Absentee or Ostracized? 2. Can you describe the kitaku kyofu allergy? (allergy to going home) How does it start How does it affect the home How might it affect a man's work

  11. The scourage of transfers 1. All too common in Japan • What are the impacts on the family? • What about the man? • Who benefits from this system?

  12. The placid and silent husband Aside: Was the Buddha right after all? -- Life is pain and grasping. Nirvana is to escape the wheel of life.

  13. Picture of a Japanese Family Holiday Greeting Photo

  14. Also review the “Japan’s Catastrophe” by Journeyman’s Pictures Minute beginning to 3:05 and 14:30 to 17:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdRyxhCWLeQ

  15. Virtual Girl Friends Go to 14:30 minute point https://vimeo.com/80542212

  16. Exhausted Husband … television self medication • …On the Saturday morning, the children wake up all excited, shouting: ‘Daddy’s here!’ He’s still half asleep. They’re forever bickering whether he’s there or not, in any case he’s always glued to the television Wives Too

  17. Japan INC. Post Meiji/ Post WWII bastardized Confucian Hierarchy with Salaryman & Families nearer the bottom

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