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Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident

Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident 114 BOOK REVIEWS demographic structure, changing familial relationships and changing welfare policies like Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) (5, 29, 35), she does so without going into great depth. The author could have referred to and engaged with current international and Japanese literature on the respective topics in a more intense way to set the context. One starting point here could be Allison’s (2013) ethnography Precarious Japan or one of the works on aging alone by Ueno (2007). The latter could also have been one way to incorporate the issue of gender – which seems to play a relevant role – more closely into the analysis. Therefore, while one can argue that the theoretical potential of the study is not fully explored, and some questions remain unanswered, the book has extremely rich potential and can serve as a starting point for other studies. It invites one, for example, to further investigate the main questions of “What is a meaningful life and how can we lead it?” in the context of the ongoing COVID-19-pandemic: how can relationships and layers of care be done when the state calls for social/physical distancing and public spaces, like the community salons, are forced to close? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident

Contemporary Japan , Volume 34 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2022

Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident

Contemporary Japan , Volume 34 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2022

Abstract

114 BOOK REVIEWS demographic structure, changing familial relationships and changing welfare policies like Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) (5, 29, 35), she does so without going into great depth. The author could have referred to and engaged with current international and Japanese literature on the respective topics in a more intense way to set the context. One starting point here could be Allison’s (2013) ethnography Precarious Japan or one of the works on aging alone by Ueno (2007). The latter could also have been one way to incorporate the issue of gender – which seems to play a relevant role – more closely into the analysis. Therefore, while one can argue that the theoretical potential of the study is not fully explored, and some questions remain unanswered, the book has extremely rich potential and can serve as a starting point for other studies. It invites one, for example, to further investigate the main questions of “What is a meaningful life and how can we lead it?” in the context of the ongoing COVID-19-pandemic: how can relationships and layers of care be done when the state calls for social/physical distancing and public spaces, like the community salons, are forced to close?

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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2020 William Farge
ISSN
1869-2737
eISSN
1869-2729
DOI
10.1080/18692729.2020.1857898
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Abstract

114 BOOK REVIEWS demographic structure, changing familial relationships and changing welfare policies like Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) (5, 29, 35), she does so without going into great depth. The author could have referred to and engaged with current international and Japanese literature on the respective topics in a more intense way to set the context. One starting point here could be Allison’s (2013) ethnography Precarious Japan or one of the works on aging alone by Ueno (2007). The latter could also have been one way to incorporate the issue of gender – which seems to play a relevant role – more closely into the analysis. Therefore, while one can argue that the theoretical potential of the study is not fully explored, and some questions remain unanswered, the book has extremely rich potential and can serve as a starting point for other studies. It invites one, for example, to further investigate the main questions of “What is a meaningful life and how can we lead it?” in the context of the ongoing COVID-19-pandemic: how can relationships and layers of care be done when the state calls for social/physical distancing and public spaces, like the community salons, are forced to close?

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Contemporary JapanTaylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2022

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