December 2019

Sweet Childcare—

A Father Playing an Active Role in Housework

by Mitsuharu Sagawa

We have a responsibility to enrich what we haveinherited from previous generations and pass it
on to the next generation. To this end, we believethat we must again return to the perspective of“Will our actions lead to the happiness of children?”
We have launched the Future of Children
series, a series of essays by experts in various
fields, to deepen our understanding of children,
as well as to consider a society in which children’s
lives and human rights are respected and in whichchildren can freely create the future. The firstpublication in this series is Mitsuharu Sagawa’s
Sweet Childcare.

I’ma househusbandand writer

Mitsuharu Sagawa
Born in Tokyo in 1965 and raised in Chigasaki. Graduated from
Hokkaido University School of Law. After working at a publisher,
worked at a slaughterhouse in Omiya from 1990 to 2001. Won
the 32nd Shincho Prize for New Writers in 2000 for Design for
Living, the 24th Noma Prize for New Writers in 2002 for
Shrunken Love, and the 26th Tsubota Joji Literary Prize in 2011for My Auntie. His other books include New Family, Silver Wings,
Slaughtering Cattles, and The Day of Growing Up.

Sweet Childcare—

Contents

A Father Playing an Active Role in Housework

Mitsuharu Sagawa

Published on February 9, 2018
Society would be much better if fathers
engaged in housework and childcare
became the norm. A novelist who hasbrought up two sons as a househusband
proposes a lifestyle in which all family
members can be happy.
“A father who can do housework andraise children is ‘hot’ (living respectably). I
would be happy if this book could be readby as many newbie daddies as possible,”says Naomi Takayama, a cooking expert
and writer, in recommendation of this book.
Base price: 1,300 yen + tax
ISBN: 978-4-7907-1709-6

The Future of Children series

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Birth of My Child
Chapter 2: Designing of Life at My Wife’sParents’ Home
Chapter 3: The Difficulty of Infertility
Chapter 4: Our Baby’s Vigorous Crying at Night
Chapter 5: Support Your Wife after Childbirthwith Cooking
Chapter 6: Let Out Your Voice When Playingwith Your Child
Chapter 7: Learn about Your City with Your Child
Chapter 8: Fathers Going to Nursery School
Chapter 9: Save the Pleasure of Learning for Later
Chapter 10: Be a Respectable Father Evenat Home!

Format: Duodecimo

Books on sale
Sweet Childcare—A Father Playing an Active Role in Housework
by Mitsuharu Sagawa (writer)

Growing Up in a Mountainous Kindergarten

by Taro Yamashita (Kitashirakawa Kindergarten principal)

The World Taught by Children—A Family Sociologist with Her Son and Cat
by Yoshimi Kataoka (family sociologist)

Books to be published

Play to Nurture Children’s Minds by Yukiyo Matsuzaki (child culturologist)
Mothers’ Supporter by Kyoko Takaishi (clinical psychologist)
When the Child Meets the Language by Ko Nagata (poet)
Books That Raised Me by Kyoko Nakajima (writer)In the Field of Cuddling Up to Children by Saho Terao (musician and writer)
Supporting Framework for Children’s Happinessby Yo Yamada (scholar of social welfare)https://sekaishisosha.jp/

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