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The aim of this chapter is to examine contemporary views and/or debates over fatherhood in Japan. The roles and responsibilities of fathers in parenting have attracted considerable attention among journalists, social critics and the public as well as policy makers from the late 1990s onwards. In this chapter, I will identify divergent expectations for father roles and contrast them with actual practices through the use of various statistics and personal accounts of fathers and mothers. In particular, this study will focus on the key issues of ‘nurturing fathers’, who actively engage themselves with the early phase of child rearing and thus clearly challenge the conventional division of labour by gender. |
