Intimate Partner Violence: Domestic Violence from Japanese Perspectives
Focusing on intimate partner violence (IPV), this chapter addresses the following five issues: Definitions of various forms of IPV IPV in Japan from a life course perspective History of IPV and cultural characteristics in Japan Laws, social policies, and
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mily Violence in Japan A Life Course Perspective
Family Violence in Japan
Fumie Kumagai • Masako Ishii-Kuntz Editors
Family Violence in Japan A Life Course Perspective
Editors Fumie Kumagai Kyorin University Tokyo, Japan
Masako Ishii-Kuntz Ochanomizu University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-10-0055-3 ISBN 978-981-10-0057-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0057-7
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Preface
During my final years of graduate studies, I was fortunate to study under the direction of Professor Murray A. Straus, a pioneer in the sociological study of family violence in the U.S.A., and a founder of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. I was his PA (project assistant) on the National Survey Research of Family Violence in the U.S.A. I learned that family violence tapped on various types of abusive behaviors in family interactions, including child abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV), youth and filial violence, elder abuse, corporal punishment, sibling rivalry, and others. But no scholar of family violence can study all of these different types of abusive conducts in family relations. Consequently, it is generally true that a researcher concentrates on only a certain type of family violence as his/her major area of specialization. Professor Straus, however, changed attitudes toward studying family violence in Western societies by looking at family interactions throughout a person’s entire life course. In Japan, however, family violence today means exclusively IPV and is often called “DV,” domestic violence. I have often wondered why the interpretation of family violence among Japanese people differs from that of their Western counter
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