Tomoko Aoyama is Associate Professor in Japanese at the University of Queensland, AustraliaLaura Dales is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.

• Introduction Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the "Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?: Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating Japan’s Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI Seniors’ Residential Care Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children’s Literature 5. Girls, Old Women, and Fairytale Families in ‘The Old Woman’s Skin’ and Howl’s Moving Castle Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant: Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public Representations of "Monster Parents" Part IV: Transnational Families 8. Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety: Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation

Tomoko Aoyama is Associate Professor in Japanese at the University of Queensland, AustraliaLaura Dales is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.

• Introduction Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the "Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?: Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating Japan’s Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI Seniors’ Residential Care Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children’s Literature 5. Girls, Old Women, and Fairytale Families in ‘The Old Woman’s Skin’ and Howl’s Moving Castle Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant: Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public Representations of "Monster Parents" Part IV: Transnational Families 8. Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety: Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation

Tomoko Aoyama is Associate Professor in Japanese at the University of Queensland, AustraliaLaura Dales is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.

• Introduction Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the "Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?: Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating Japan’s Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI Seniors’ Residential Care Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children’s Literature 5. Girls, Old Women, and Fairytale Families in ‘The Old Woman’s Skin’ and Howl’s Moving Castle Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant: Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public Representations of "Monster Parents" Part IV: Transnational Families 8. Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety: Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation