McKinstry, John

Jinsei Annai, "life's guide" : glimpses of Japan through a popular advice column / John A. McKinstry and Asako Nakajima McKinstry. - Armonk, New York : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c1991. - 209 pages : 23 cm.

CHAPTER 1. Introduction : an advice column as a mirror of Japanese culture? --
CHAPTER 2. Mr. Wrong : complaints against husbands --
CHAPTER 3. Responses to Mr. Wrong --
CHAPTER 4. "I am bothered by relations with others" --
CHAPTER 5. Problems with in-laws --
CHAPTER 6. Additional sources of family tension --
CHAPTER 7. Courtship and affairs of the heart --
CHAPTER 8. Two secondary topics --
CHAPTER 9. Comments in summation.

A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field.

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HISTORY -- ASIA JAPAN

DS 822.5 .M35 1991