Table of Contents
Introduction / Harold Stevenson, Hiroshi Azuma, Kenji Hakuta -- Why study child development in Japan? / Hiroshi Azuma -- The social and cultural background of child development in Japan and the United States / Harumi Befu -- The child in Japanese society / Yoshiaki Yamamura -- Child rearing concepts as a belief-value system of the society and the individual / Hideo Kojima -- What is an Ii ko (good child)? / Merry I. White and Robert A. LeVine -- Privatization of family life in Japan / Kiyomi Morioka -- School education : its history and contemporary status / Tadahiko Inagaki -- The Japanese language / Susumu Kuno -- The role of the personal framework of social relationships in socialization studies / Keiko Takahashi -- Japanese studies of infant development / Shing-jen Chen and Kazuo Miyake -- Family influence on school readiness and achievement in Japan and the United States : an overview of a longitudinal study / Robert Hess ... et al. -- Personality development of adolescents / Keiko Kashiwagi --