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Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000

Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000

Hardcover

Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un

General Gender StudiesJapanese HistoryRelationships

ISBN10: 0804743576
ISBN13: 9780804743570
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 3 2004
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Historians have paid little attention to divorce in Japan, even though until the mid-twentieth century Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in the world. This book shows that the high prevalence of divorce was made possible by a regulatory framework condoning consensual divorce. Spouses and their families were usually free to negotiate dissolution with little interference from public authorities. Only in the rare cases of intractable conflict did parties seek legal adjudication, a situation that holds true to this day.

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