 | Generations in Touch: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood Subjects: Kotoen (Age-integrated institution : Tokyo Japan); Aged -- Institutional care -- Japan -- Tokyo; Intergenerational relations -- Japan -- Tokyo; Aged -- Housing -- Japan -- Tokyo; Aged -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Attitudes; Retirees -- Japan -- Attitudes; A dilemma long faced by western societies--how to bring the generations together--is also of growing concern in the east. In Japan, where, until recently, the extended family often lived under the same roof, social programs designed to facilitate... Leng Leng Thang is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the coeditor of Old Challenges, New Strategies?: Women, Work, and Family in Contemporary Asia . |
