Child Care Policy at the Crossroads 
Subtitle: Gender and Welfare State Restructuring
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415927048
First sentence: Throughout the postwar era, the Japanese state has used women as a point of adjustment to negotiate varying social, economic, and political imperatives; this is probably most clearly reflected in the family and child care policies.