Through Japanese Eyes: Thirty Years of Studying Aging in America

by Yohko Tsuji

Book Overview

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparing aging in America and in her native Japan, she discovers that notable differences in the pan-human experience of aging are rooted in cultural differences between these two countries, and that Americans have strongly negative attitudes toward aging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978819552
• ISBN13: 9781978819559
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher