Abstract
Once the family was the primary building block of society, not only in practice but under very strict rules and regulations laid down by the Tokugawa shogunate, some of them enacted as law after the Meiji Restoration and only lapsing after the Pacific War. Yet, as is becoming increasingly evident to the Japanese, the family is now among the weakest social institutions and ranks after many others in importance. Indeed, the decay of the family is such that its preservation in any normal sense is in danger.
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© 1997 Jon Woronoff
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Woronoff, J. (1997). The Family (Splitting Up). In: The Japanese Social Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25264-0_5
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