new middle class in Japan

is a redefinition of standards of achievement, desirability, and possibility in 1970s-80s Japan. It takes form in the gendered terms of a nuclear family in which the husband worked for a large corporation, the wife was a full-time homemake, and the two children were hardworking student.

in Lieba Faire. 'According to Kelly, by the 1970s and 1980s, this ideology redefined standards of achievement, desirability, and possibility in Japan in gendered terms of a nuclear family in which the husband worked for a large corporation, the wife was a full-time homemake, and the two children were hard working students' (Faier 2009: 111) (Faier, Lieba. 2009. Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan. University of California Press,

Japan

is the gendered nuclear family with redefined standards of achievement, desirability, and possibility.

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new middle class in japan