Ochiai Emiko is Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters. Her focus is placing changes in intimate relationships in the broader context of welfare state reconstruction and globalization. Her publications include Asia’s New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (Global Oriental, 2008), Stem Family in a Eurasian Perspective (Peter Lang, 2006), and Japanese Family System in Transition (LTCB International Library, 1997).Hosoya Leo Aoi is a lecturer at the Centre for Global Human Resource Development, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. She received a PhD in archaeobotany from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her research interests include prehistoric rice agriculture in Japan and China and ethnographic studies of traditional farming, food and foodways in Oceania. Her publications include "Understanding the Formation of Agricultural Society in Prehistoric Western Japan" (Journal of World Prehistory, Vol. 27 (2014)), and "Staple or Famine Food?" (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 3.1 (2011)).

• Preface ... ixList of Figures ... xiList of Tables ... xvIntroduction: Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asian Modernity ... 1OCHIAI Emiko1 Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia ... 37CHANG Kyung-Sup2 Unsustainable Societies: Low Fertility and Familialism in East Asia’s Compressed and Semi-compressed Modernities ... 63OCHIAI Emiko3 Demographic Dividend and the Future of Asia ... 91Patcharawalai WONGBOONSIN and Kua WONGBOONSIN4 Shrinking of the Japanese Uniqueness: A Quantitative Analysis of Life Course Changes ... 116IWAI Hachiro5 Factors in the Wage Diffferential between Standard and Nonstandard Employment: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ... 144TAROHMARU Hiroshi6 Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asian Societies ... 164OCHIAI Emiko7 Incorporating Foreign Domestic Workers as Providers of Family Care: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore ... 190ASATO Wako8 Social Investment Policy in South Korea ... 234ITO Peng9 A Comparative Perspective on Japanese Family Law ... 254MIZUNO Noriko10 The Development of Civil Society in East Asia: Focusing on the Environment, Human Rights and Migrant Labor ... 266IGARASHI SeiichiIndex ... 303

Ochiai Emiko is Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters. Her focus is placing changes in intimate relationships in the broader context of welfare state reconstruction and globalization. Her publications include Asia’s New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (Global Oriental, 2008), Stem Family in a Eurasian Perspective (Peter Lang, 2006), and Japanese Family System in Transition (LTCB International Library, 1997).Hosoya Leo Aoi is a lecturer at the Centre for Global Human Resource Development, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. She received a PhD in archaeobotany from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her research interests include prehistoric rice agriculture in Japan and China and ethnographic studies of traditional farming, food and foodways in Oceania. Her publications include "Understanding the Formation of Agricultural Society in Prehistoric Western Japan" (Journal of World Prehistory, Vol. 27 (2014)), and "Staple or Famine Food?" (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 3.1 (2011)).

• Preface ... ixList of Figures ... xiList of Tables ... xvIntroduction: Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asian Modernity ... 1OCHIAI Emiko1 Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia ... 37CHANG Kyung-Sup2 Unsustainable Societies: Low Fertility and Familialism in East Asia’s Compressed and Semi-compressed Modernities ... 63OCHIAI Emiko3 Demographic Dividend and the Future of Asia ... 91Patcharawalai WONGBOONSIN and Kua WONGBOONSIN4 Shrinking of the Japanese Uniqueness: A Quantitative Analysis of Life Course Changes ... 116IWAI Hachiro5 Factors in the Wage Diffferential between Standard and Nonstandard Employment: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ... 144TAROHMARU Hiroshi6 Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asian Societies ... 164OCHIAI Emiko7 Incorporating Foreign Domestic Workers as Providers of Family Care: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore ... 190ASATO Wako8 Social Investment Policy in South Korea ... 234ITO Peng9 A Comparative Perspective on Japanese Family Law ... 254MIZUNO Noriko10 The Development of Civil Society in East Asia: Focusing on the Environment, Human Rights and Migrant Labor ... 266IGARASHI SeiichiIndex ... 303

Ochiai Emiko is Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters. Her focus is placing changes in intimate relationships in the broader context of welfare state reconstruction and globalization. Her publications include Asia’s New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (Global Oriental, 2008), Stem Family in a Eurasian Perspective (Peter Lang, 2006), and Japanese Family System in Transition (LTCB International Library, 1997).Hosoya Leo Aoi is a lecturer at the Centre for Global Human Resource Development, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. She received a PhD in archaeobotany from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her research interests include prehistoric rice agriculture in Japan and China and ethnographic studies of traditional farming, food and foodways in Oceania. Her publications include "Understanding the Formation of Agricultural Society in Prehistoric Western Japan" (Journal of World Prehistory, Vol. 27 (2014)), and "Staple or Famine Food?" (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 3.1 (2011)).

• Preface ... ixList of Figures ... xiList of Tables ... xvIntroduction: Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asian Modernity ... 1OCHIAI Emiko1 Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia ... 37CHANG Kyung-Sup2 Unsustainable Societies: Low Fertility and Familialism in East Asia’s Compressed and Semi-compressed Modernities ... 63OCHIAI Emiko3 Demographic Dividend and the Future of Asia ... 91Patcharawalai WONGBOONSIN and Kua WONGBOONSIN4 Shrinking of the Japanese Uniqueness: A Quantitative Analysis of Life Course Changes ... 116IWAI Hachiro5 Factors in the Wage Diffferential between Standard and Nonstandard Employment: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ... 144TAROHMARU Hiroshi6 Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asian Societies ... 164OCHIAI Emiko7 Incorporating Foreign Domestic Workers as Providers of Family Care: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore ... 190ASATO Wako8 Social Investment Policy in South Korea ... 234ITO Peng9 A Comparative Perspective on Japanese Family Law ... 254MIZUNO Noriko10 The Development of Civil Society in East Asia: Focusing on the Environment, Human Rights and Migrant Labor ... 266IGARASHI SeiichiIndex ... 303