Generations in Touch
Subtitle: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801438431
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology - General; Kotoen (Age-integrated institu; Institutional care; Social Science; Sociology; Japan; Older people; General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Housing; Tokyo; Anthropology - General; Intergenerational relations
First sentence: Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. Noyama never gave birth to a child, yet she is "Grandma" to eighty children.