Table of Contents

Foreword, Takeo Doi

1. Introduction: Looking Back, David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb

2. From Productive Dependents to Precious Guests: Historical Changes in Japanese Children, Kiroko Hara and Meiko Minagawa

3. Are Japanese Young Children among the Gods?, Shing-Jen Chen

4. Psychocultural Continuities in Japanese Social Motivation, George A. DeVos

5. Socialization and School Adaptation: On the Life Work of George DeVos, Curtis A. Vaughn

6. Adult to Child in Japan: Interaction and Relations, Betty B. Lanham and Regina J. Garrick

7. The Contributions of Betty Lanham: A Legacy Unfulfilled, Catherine Lewis

8. Childrearing and child behavior in Japan and the United States, Carmi Schooler

9. Production and Reproduction of Culture: The Dynamic Role of Mothers and Children in Early Socialization, Susan D. Holloway and Masahiko Minami

10. Urban Middle-Class Japanese Family Life, 1958-1993: A Personal and Evolving Perspective, Suzanne Hall Vogel

11. Japan's Old-Time New Middle Class, Ezra Vogel

12. Renewing the New Middle Class: Japan's Next Families, Merry White

13. Cross-National Research on Child Development: The Hess Azuma Collaboration in Retrospect, Hiroshi Azuma

14. Maternal and Cultural Socialization for Schooling: Lessons Learned and Prospects Ahead, Sandra Machida

15. The Transmission of Culture-Linked Behavior Systems through Maternal Behavior: Nature versus Nurture Revisited, Nancy Shand

16. Longitudinal Research in a Cultural Context: Reflections, Prospects, Challenges, Per F. Gjerde

17. Conclusions: Looking Ahead, David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb

About the Author

DAVID SHWALB is Associate Professor of International Studies at Koryo Women's College, Nagoya. He received his BA from Oberlin College and an MA and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan. He was an exchange student at Waseda University, a Monbusho English Fellow in Hiroshima, and a Fulbright Dissertation Fellow at Tokyo University. His research on school and family socialization has included projects on fathering, abacus juku education, tatemae/honne (social cognition), cooperation/competition, and temperament.

BARBARA SHWALB is Associate Professor at Nagoya Shoka University. She received her BS, MA, and MAT degrees from Southeast Missouri State University. Her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology is from the University of Michigan. At Michigan she was a research associate with the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. She was a public school teacher for 5 years, and served as a Monbusho Research Fellow at Tokyo University. Her research combines cognitive psychological frameworks and statistical methods to integrate individual, group, and cultural learning issues.

The Shwalbs have five children.

Reviews

"An invaluable resource for several different groups: both experienced and new researchers studying Japanese childrearing, those pursuing cross-cultural research with countries other than Japan, and those investigating childrearing from a Western, particularly American, perspective." - -Journal of Marriage and the Family

"Valuable....Captures the rich history of the attempt, over the last four decades, to understand the differences between Japanese and American childrearing. The contributions of Caudill, Azuma, Hess, Vogel, and others are honored in a style that marries the easy flow of autobiography with the technical prose of social science." - Jerome Kagan, PhD