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: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801487323
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology - General; Japan; Housing; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Kotoen (Age-integrated institu; Anthropology - Cultural; Tokyo; Anthropology - General; Institutional care; Intergenerational relations; Older people
First sentence: Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. Noyama never gave birth to a child, yet she is "Grandma" to eighty children.