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• Title: Intimate Dependence and Its Risks in Neoliberal Japan (Special COLLECTION: THE ETHICS OF DISCONNECTION IN A NEOLIBERAL Age) (Report)
• Author : Anthropological Quarterly
• Release Date : January 22, 2011
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 255 KB

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Introduction 100 Reasons for Later-Life Divorce, a marital advice book published in Tokyo in 2006, offers more than just a list of the most common reasons for divorce among people over 60 years of age. After enumerating the "top 10" reasons for divorce given in a television program on the topic, the authors ask the reader to identify spouses' mistakes in a narrative scenario. Following popular understandings of gendered responsibility, this task mostly consists of figuring out what the husband is doing wrong. In a section including a script of a middle-aged husband's return from work one evening, the text recommends keeping an eye out for the "reasons for divorce" (rikon riyu) and then provides a quiz about what isn't working in this marriage. In this opening to a longer scenario, the husband manages to do three things that are presented as both entirely typical for a man of his age, and as dangerous risks for his marriage. First, this husband doesn't return his wife's greetings (aisatsu) when she welcomes him home. Second, he pulls off his clothes to lounge around in his underwear. And finally, when asking for a cold beer, he calls her "mother" (TBS bangumi seisaku sutaffu [1-BS Broadcast Staff] 2006:72). This guidebook is one of many contemporary sources that suggest spouses are creating tectonic risks in marriages when they call each other "mother" and "father." Yet this has long been a very common practice in Japanese families. I argue that, in popular representations, these common denotational practices are now seen as dangerous because they enable a dependence that conflicts with burgeoning neoliberal ideals of independent autonomy.

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