READING:

"The Convenience Phone" in IMAGES, pages 125 - 136

Merle Aiko Okawara (Chairperson, JC COMSA), "Montreal Forum: Changes in Social Fabric of Japan", Presentation at GLOCOM-UQAM Forum, Montreal, Canada, November 24, 2003

Yumiko Ono, "Retired Salarymen, "'Garbage' of Japan, Clean Up Thier Act", The Wall Street Journal, undated.

Masayuki Yoshida, "Giri: An Indigenous Japanese Concept", October 8, 1996

ARTICLES:

• "New Words Capture Image Of Japanese Farnily" (The Japan Times Weekly, January 21 - 27, 1991: 2 pages)
• "Who Needs Love? In Japan, Many Couples Don't" (The New York Times, 1997: 4 pages)

INTERNET DISCUSSION SIX (SOCIETY) OPEN

READING:

excerpt: "The Denda Family of Rural Nagano" --John Nathan, Japan Unbound (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2004), pages 48 - 53. [handout distributed in class

]"Leisure Options" and "Pachinko" in IMAGES, pages 83 - 100, 110 - 124

Norimitsu Onishi, "Never Lost, but Found Daily: Japanese Honesty", The New York Times, January 8, 2004.

ARTICLES (on rural life):

• three selections from Junichi Saga, Memories of Straw and Silk (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1987): 7 pages
• "Expert Hagiwara Vitalizes Rural Villages" (The Japan Times Weekly, April 25 - 31, 1994: 1 page)
• "Tokyo Lights Lure the Young to Forsake Rural Way of Life" " (The New York Times, January 2, 1997: 2 pages)

RESEARCH ESSAY CONTENT DESCRIPTION AND WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

ROLE PLAY CHOICE DUE

Andrew Gordon, "From Modern Girls to Parasites: The Enduring Discourse of Women in Japan", Tsushin (Vol. 7, No. 2), Fall 2001. 

J. Sean Curtin, et. al., "Parasite Singles: International Perspective and Analysis", email correspondence (August 2001).

QUIZ TWO (SOCIETY) DUE