Ochiai says the modern Japanese family only emerged around 1955 when the nation's high economic growth gave rise to salaried workers and full-time homemakers. The Japanese family has been constantly metamorphosing and is expected to undergo major changes in the coming century that will require people to make many adjustments, Ochiai maintains. The following is an excerpt from an interview with Ochiai. So they must think that traditional Japanese culture is very strong. The ie system is bound to change.
Japan is no exception.
People believe that women have been homemakers since ancient times and that this situation changed only recently when women began working. In reality, it is not so. You said in your book that the postwar family system created around 1955 received a shake-up about 20 years later. In the 1980s, the ratio of women in the workforce started increasing again. So women started joining the workforce.