Children of the Japanese State – The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan
Roger Goodman, Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of Japan, University of Oxford
This book examines what happens to children in contemporary Japan when they come into the care of the state. It explores Japanese ideas of adoption, fostering, child abuse, and child protection, and provides the first full account in English of the development and delivery of child welfare in the world’s second largest economy.
Readership: Social anthropologists, sociologists, students and practitioners of social work, social welfare, comparative social policy, comparative law; scholars and students of Japanese and East Asian culture and society.
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