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Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive
growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new
ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the
birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan--the planned retirement
community.
In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's
first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie
W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of
a retirement community in a non-Western culture.
Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions.
Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for
long-established relationships creates the need for the invention
of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society.
This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the
"graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized
countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's
values and the need for clear communication have important
applications in other cultures as well.
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