Introduction : continuity and change in Japanese homes and families / Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy --;Reassembling familial intimacy : civil, fringe, and popular youth visions of the Japanese home and family / Bruce White --;Reforming families in Japan : family policy in the era of structural reform / Hiroko Takeda --;The ideal, the deficient, and the illogical family : an initial typology of administrative household units / Karl Jakob Krogness --;"I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion" : experiences of unmarried mothers in Japan / Ekaterina Hertog --;Masculinity and the family system : the ideology of the "salaryman" across three generations / Tomoko Hidaka --;Working and waiting for an "appropriate person" : how single women support and resist family in Japan / Lynne Y. Nakano --;Home ownership, family change and generational differences / Yosuke Hirayama --;Homes and houses, senses and spaces / Richard Ronald --;The changing face of homelessness in Tokyo in the modern era / Akihiko Nishizawa --;Coping with hikikomori : socially withdrawn youth and the Japanese family / Sachiko Horiguchi --;The door my wife closed : houses, families, and divorce in contemporary Japan / Allison Alexy --;Living apart together : anticipated home, family and social networks in old age / Anemone Platz.