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Kodomo no kuni was published monthly in Japan for over twenty years, beginning in the Taishō era in 1922 and continuing until the early Shōwa era in 1944. [4] Other publications for children had begun about a decade earlier in Japan, but Kodomo no kuni was the first of its kind to specifically support the education of children with the arts. [5]
Nevertheless, most women in Japan still have one or two children and devote enormous amounts of time and energy into raising them. [10] Citizenship is notably guarded: a child born in Japan does not receive Japanese nationality if both parents are non-Japanese, or if a Japanese father denies paternity of a child born to a non-Japanese woman. [7]
Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010) Kelly, Boyd. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Vol. 1. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-884-96433-6; Passin, Herbert. Society & Education in Japan (Kodansha USA, 1965) Platt, Brian.
Japan also lacks a system that can force fathers to pay child support, according to Kato. In the past, grandparents, neighbors and other members of the extended family helped look after children.
Shichi-Go-San ritual at a Shinto shrine A young girl dressed traditionally for Shichi-Go-San Kunisada. Shichi-Go-San is said to have originated in the Heian period amongst court nobles who would celebrate the passage of their children into middle childhood, but it is also suggested that the idea was originated from the Muromachi period due to high infant mortality.
In the 1890s, Japan saw a rise in reformers, child experts, magazine editors, and educated mothers who embraced new ideas about childhood and education. They introduced the upper middle class to a concept of childhood that involved children having their own space, reading children's books, playing with educational toys, and spending significant ...
Children at Play: An American History (2008). Del Mar, David Peterson. The American Family: From Obligation to Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan; 2012) 211 pages; the American family over four centuries. Fass, Paula. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child (2016) excerpt
A Japanese expert on demographic trends and ageing society has warned that if the country’s birthrate continues its current decline, the nation will be left with only one child under the age of ...