Preferred Citation: Vogel, Ezra F. Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb, Second edition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1971 [c1963] 1971 1963. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8z09p23r/


 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

For bibliographical information on Japanese-language behavioral-science studies, see Kunio Odaka, "Sociology in Japan," in Howard Becker and Alvin Boskoff, eds., Modern Sociological Theory in Continuity and Change. New York: Dryden Press, 1957; Takao Sofue, "Anthropology in Japan: Historical Review and Modern Trends," in Bernard J. Siegel, ed., Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1961; Ronald Dore, "Sociology in Japan," The British Journal of Sociology, 1962, XIII:116–123; A Guide to Exhibition of Japanese Sociological Books, Fifth World Congress of Sociology, September 2–9, 1962, published by The Japan Sociological Society.

More specialized bibliographies are available in many of the following English-language works.

English-Language Works on Japanese Society

Abegglen, James G., The Japanese Factory. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1958.

Baker, Wendell Dean, "A Study of Selected Aspects of Japanese Social Stratification." Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1956.

Beardsley, Richard, John W. Hall, and Robert E. Ward, Village Japan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1959.

Bellah, Robert N., Tokugawa Religion, Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1957.

Benedict, Ruth, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1946.

Borton, Hugh, ed., Japan Between East and West. New York: Harper, 1957.

Burks, Ardath W., The Government of Japan. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1961.

Cohen, Jerome B., Japan's Postwar Economy. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1958.

Cole, Allan B., ed., Japanese Opinion Polls with Socio-political Significance, 1947-1957. Medford, Mass.: Tufts University, 1958.

Cole, Allan B., Japanese Society and Politics. Boston: Boston University, 1956.

Dore, Ronald P., City Life in Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958.

Dore, Ronald P., Land Reform in Japan, London: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Embree, John F., A Japanese Village: Suye Mura. London: Kegan Paul, French-Trubner, 1946.

Enright, D. J., The World of Dew: Aspects of Living Japan. Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.

Fukutake, Tadashi, Man and Society in Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1962.

Haring, Douglas G., ed., Japan's Prospect. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1946.

Ike, Nobutaka, Japanese Politics. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

Koyama, Takashi, The Changing Social Position of Women in Japan. UNESCO, 1961.


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Lanham, Betty Baily, Aspects of Child Rearing in Japan. Doctoral dissertation, Syracuse University, 1962.

Levine, Solomon B., Industrial Relations in Post-War Japan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958.

Lockwood, William, The Economic Development of Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954.

Maki, John, Government and Politics in Japan. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962.

Maruyama, Masao, Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.

Matsumoto, Yoshiharu Scott, Contemporary Japan: The Individual and the Group. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1960.

Mendel, Douglas H., Jr., Japanese People and Foreign Policy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961.

Morris, Ivan I., Nationalism and The Right Wing in Japan. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Nakamura, Hajime, The Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples. Tokyo: Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, 1960.

Norbeck, Edward, Takashima: A Japanese Fishing Community. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1946.

Pelzel, John C., "Social Stratification in Japanese Urban Economic Life." Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1949.

Plath, David W., "The Strung and the Unstrung: Holidays in Japanese Life." Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1962.

"Post-War Democratization in Japan," International Social Science Journal, 1961, XIII: 7-91.

Reischauer, Edwin O., The United States and Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950.

Reischauer, Edwin O., Japan: Past and Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Rosovsky, Henry, Capital Formation in Japan, 1868-1940. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1961.

Scalapino, Robert A., and Junnosuke Masumi, Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961.

Smith, Robert J., and Richard K. Beardsley, eds. Japanese Culture. New York: The Viking Fund, 1962.

Smith, Robert J., and John B. Cornell, Two Japanese Villages. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1956, Center for Japanese Studies, Occasional Paper No. 5.

Smith, Thomas C., The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.

Smith, Thomas C., ed., City and Village in Japan. Economic Development and Cultural Change, IX:1, part ii, October, 1960.

Stoetzel, Jean, Without the Chrysanthemum and the Sword: A Study of the Attitudes of Youth in Post-war Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.

Taeuber, Irene B., The Population of Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.

Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor, ed. Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.

Yanaga, Chitoshi, Japanese People and Politics. New York: Wiley, 1956.

Japanese-Language Bibliography on the Japanese Family

Kenneth Morioka has compiled an excellent bibliography of Japanese works on the family: "Kazoku Shakaigaku Sankoo Bunken Mokuroku" (A Bibliographic Guide to Works on Family Sociology), Shakai Kagaku Jaaneru, International Christian University, 1960, 185–254. (Revised English translation available from the Family


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Study Center, University of Minnesota.) The following is a selected list containing some of the major Japanese family studies.

Aruga, Kizaemon, Nihon Kazoku Seido to Kosaku Seido (The Japanese Family System and Tenancy System). Tokyo: Kawade Shoboo, 1943.

Asayama, Shinichi, Sei no Kiroku (Report on Sexual Behavior). Osaka: Rokugatsusha, 1957.

Isomura, Eiichi, Takeyoshi Kawashima, and Takashi Koyama, eds., Gendai Kazoku Kooza (The Structure of the Contemporary Family). 6 volumes. Tokyo: Kawade Shoboo, 1955-1956.

Isono, Seiichi, and Fujiko Isono, Kazoku Seido (The Family System). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1958.

Kawashima, Takeyoshi, Ideorogi to shite no Kazoku Seido (The Family System as Ideology). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1956.

Kawashima, Takeyoshi, Kekkon (Marriage). Tokyo: Iwanami Shinso, 1954.

Kawashima, Takeyoshi, Nihon Shakai no Kazokuteki Koosei (The Familistic Structure of Japanese Society). Tokyo: Nihon Hyooron Shinsha, 1950.

Kekkon Zenshu (How to Plan Your Marriage). Toyyo: Fufu no Tomosha, 1960.

Kitano, Seeichi and Yuzuru Okada, eds., Ie: Sono Koozoo Bunseki (An Analysis of the Structure of the Ie ). Tokyo: Soobunsha, 1959.

Koyama, Takeshi, Gendai Kazoku no Kenkyuu (An Investigation of the Contemporary Family). Tokyo: Koobundoo, 1960.

Rural Welfare Research Institute, Soozoku Sei no Kenkyuu (A Study of Inheritance). (Includes lengthy English summary.) Mitaka: International Christian University, 1958.

Shinozaki, Nobuo, Fufu Sei Seikatsu no Jittai (The Sexual Life of Married Couples). Tokyo: Muramatsu Shoten, 1949.

Tamura, Kenji, and Makie Tamura, Anata wa Dare to Kekkon Shiteru ka (Who Is Your Partner in Married Life?) Tokyo: Sekkasha, 1961.

Toda, Teizo, Kazoku no Kenkyuu (Family Studies). Tokyo: Koobundoo, 1926.

Tsuru, Hiroshi, Nihon no Boshi Kankei (Mother-Child Relationship in Japan). Nagoya: Reimei, 1958.

Selected Bibliography of Enlgish-Language Articles and Pamphlets on the Japanese Family

Ariga, Kizaemon, "The Family in Japan," Marriage and Family Living, 1954, XVI:362-368.

Asayama, Shinichi, "Comparison of Sexual Development of American and Japanese Adolescents," Psychologia, 1957, I:129-131.

Baber, Ray E., Youth Looks at Marriage and the Family. Tokyo: International Christian University, 1958.

Beardsley, Richard, "The Household in the Status System of Japanese Villages," Occasional Papers. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1951, I:62-72.

Bennett, John W., and Michio Nagai, "The Japanese Critique of the Methodology of Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword," American Anthropologist, 1953, LV:404-411.

Caudill, William, "Maternal Care and Infant Behavior in Japan" (mimeographed), National Institute of Mental Health, 1962.

Caudill, William, "Japanese-American Personality and Acculturation," Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1952, XLV:3-102.

Caudill, William, and George De Vos, "Achievement, Culture and Personality: The Case of the Japanese-Americans," American Anthropologist, 1956, LVIII:1102-1126.


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Caudill, William, and Harry A. Scarr, "Japanese Value Orientations and Culture Change," Ethnology, 1961, I:53-91.

Caudill, William, and Takeo Doi, "Interrelations of Psychiatry, Culture and Emotion in Japan" in Thomas Gladwin, ed., Medicine and Anthropology. New York: Werner Gren Foundation, 1962.

De Vos, George, "A Comparison of the Personality Differences in Two Generations of Japanese-Americans by Means of the Rorschach Test," Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, 1954, XVIII:153-265.

De Vos, George, "The Relation of Guilt Toward Parents to Achievement and Arranged Marriage among the Japanese," Psychiatry, 1960, XXIII:287-301.

De Vos, George, and Hiroshi Wagatsuma, "Variations in Value Attitudes Related to Women's Status in Japanese Rural Villages," American Anthropologist, 1961, LXIII:1204-1230.

De Vos, George, and Hiroshi Wagatsuma, "Psycho-Cultural Significance of Concern Over Death and Illness Among Rural Japanese," The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1959, V:5-19.

Doi, Takeo, "Amae--A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure," Psychologia, 1962, V:1-7.

Goodman, Mary Ellen, "Values, Attitudes and Social Concepts of Japanese and American Children," American Anthropologist, 1957, LIX:979-999.

Haring, Douglas G., "Aspects of Personal Character in Japan," Far Eastern Quarterly, 1946, VI:12-22.

Ishino, Iwao, "The Oyabun-Kobun: A Japanese Ritual Kinship Institution," American Anthropologist, 1953, LV:695-707.

Lanham, Betty B., "Aspects of Child Care in Japan: Preliminary Report," in Douglas Haring, ed., Personal Character and Cultural Milieu. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956.

Lifton, Robert Jay, "Youth and History: Individual Change in Postwar Japan," Daedalus, 1962, XCI:172-197.

Masuoka, Edna Cooper and Jitsuichi Masuoka and Nozomu Kawamura, "Role Conflicts in the Modern Japanese Family," Social Forces, 1961, XLI:1-6.

Nagai, Michio, "Dozoku: A Preliminary Study of the Japanese 'Extended Family' Group and Its Social and Economic Functions," Report No. 7, Project 483, Ohio State University (mimeographed).

Nagai, Michio, and John W. Bennett, "A Summary and Analysis of 'The Familial Structure of Japanese Society by Takeyoshi Kawashima,'" Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1953, IX:239-250.

Norbeck, Edward, and Harumi Befu, "Informal Fictive Kinship in Japan," American Anthropologist, 1958, LX:102-117.

Norbeck, Edward, and Harumi Befu, "Japanese Usages of Terms of Relationship," Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1958, XII:66-36.

Norbeck, Edward, and George De Vos, "Culture and Personality: The Japanese," in F. L. K. Hsu, ed., Psychological Anthropology. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1961.

Norbeck, Edward, and Margaret Norbeck, "Child Training in a Japanese Fishing Village," in Douglas G. Haring, ed., Personal Character and Cultural Milieu. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956.

Norbeck, Edward, "Postwar Cultural Change and Continuity in Northeastern Japan," American Anthropologist, 1961, LXIII:297-321.

Olsen, Lawrence, "Japanese Small Industry," American Universities Field Staff Letter, October 10, 1955.

Olsen, Lawrence, "Human Relations in a Japanese Factory," American Universities Field Staff Letter, November 27, 1955.

Olsen, Lawrence, "Four Family Budgets," American Universities Field Staff Letter, February 15, 1959.


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Olsen, Lawrence, "Takehara: A Good Place to Be From," American Universities Field Staff Letter, May 7, 1961.

Olsen, Lawrence, "How the Japanese Divorce," American Universities Field Staff Letter, July 1961.

Pease, Damaris, "Some Child Rearing Practices in Japanese Families," Journal Paper No. J-3872 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa.

Pelzel, John C., "Some Social Factors Bearing upon Japanese Population," American Sociological Review, 1950, XV:20-25.

Population Problems Research Council, Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, Family System and Population of Farming Communities in Japan, Series No. 6, 1952.

Population Problems Research Council, Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, Public Opinion Survey on Birth Control in Japan, Series No. 7, 1952.

Population Problems Research Council, Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, Some Facts about Family Planning in Japan, Series No. 12, 1955.

Population Problems Research Council, Mainichi Newspapers, Tokyo, Fifth Public Opinion Survey on Birth Control in Japan, 1959.

Shinozaki, Nobuo, Report on Sexual Life of Japanese, Institute of Population Problems, Welfare Ministry, Tokyo, 1957.

Steiner, Kurt, "A Japanese Cause Célèbre: The Fukuoka Patricide Case," American Journal of Comparative Law, 1956, V:106-111.

Steiner, Kurt, "The Revision of the Civil Code of Japan: Provisions Affecting the Family," Far East Quarterly, 1950, IX:169-184.

Vogel, Ezra, "The Go-Between in a Developing Society: The Case of the Japanese Marriage Arranger," Human Organization, 1961, XX:112-120.

Wagatsuma, Hiroshi, and George De Vos, "Attitudes Toward Arranged Marriage in Rural Japan," Human Organization, 1962, XXI:187-200.

Wagatsuma, Sakae, "Democratization of the Family Relations in Japan," Washington Law Review, 1950, XXV:405-426.


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Preferred Citation: Vogel, Ezra F. Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb, Second edition. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1971 [c1963] 1971 1963. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8z09p23r/