Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege

by Linda White

The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname households.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367424207
• ISBN13: 9780367424206
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages