Hirochika NAKAMAKI

Senri Ethnological studies no.62
'The Culture of Association and Associations in Contemporary Japanese Society'
(2002, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)

Edited by HIROCHIKA NAKAMAKI

Preface
HIROCHIKA NAKAMAKI

Introduction
HIROCHIKA NAKAMAKI

Comment to Introduction
YONEYAMA TOSHINAO

Voluntary Associations
1. Deconstructing the Pont des Art: Why Kyoto Did Not Get Its Parisian Bridge
CHRISTOPH BRUMANN
2. Voluntary Associations: A Functional Factor to the System or a Changing Force
OKPYO MOON
3. Civil Society in Japan and Takefu City's Efforts to Involve Citizens in Community Building
GUVEN PETER WITTEVEEN

Overseas Japanese Communities
4. Gender and Globalisation: Japanese Diaspora
SAKAI JUNKO
5. The Japanese Association and the Kowloon Club: A Study of the Japanese Community in Singapore from a Comparative Perspective
NG WAI-MING
6. Post Mortem Identity and Burial Obligation: On 'Blood Relations', 'Place Relations' and 'Group Relations' in the Japanese Community of Singapore
TSU YUN HUI

。 Gender, Company and Religion
7. Gender and Employment Policy in Japan: The Case of University Graduate
TOSHIKO TSUKAGUCHI-LE GRAND
8. 社縁文化としての社葬 (Company Funeral: Its Culture of Association and Associations)
NAKAMAKI HIROCHIKA
9. The Corporate Culture of a Globalised Religion
WENDY SMITH

List of Contributors
Index