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- Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan (Suny Series in Japan in Transition)
- Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (Suny Series in Japan in Transition and Suny Series in Aging and Culture)
- Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan
- Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds