Comparative Research on Changing Family Structure in North-east Asia: Japan, China and Korea

该项目旨在通过与中国和韩国的主要研究人员合作，开展东北亚家庭问题的跨国比较研究。对在三个社会收集的微观层面的数据集进行了比较分析。以日本家庭社会学学会的日本数据（NFRJ）为中心，对韩国妇女发展研究所的韩国数据（KNFS 03）和中国家庭调查（FSC 06）进行了比较分析。这确实是家庭研究领域的一项创新努力。在2007年12月的国际讲习班上宣读了关于比较分析的论文（英文）并进行了讨论。在修订这些文件后，最后报告（英文版）。最后报告讨论了三个社会中家庭的异同，包括家庭生活的几个方面，如代际关系、配偶之间的分工、婚姻满意度、压力和家庭生活、对家庭的态度、婚姻模式和分层社会中对子女教育的投资。然而，在数据共享的启动过程中，我们需要大量的时间来解决问题，这并没有给我们留下足够的时间来彻底实现我们的目标。我们希望在下一个项目中继续深入和广泛地阐述我们的分析，幸运的是，该项目将再次获得科学研究补助金（C）的资助。

In this project it was aimed to develop cross national comparative study on family in North-east Asia through collaboration with leading researchers in China and Korea. Comparative analyses were made upon micro-level datasets collected in three societies. Placing Japanese data (NFRJ) which had been administered by Japan Society of Family Sociology ad the pivot of comparison, Korean data (KNFS03) surveyed by Korean Women s Development Institute and the Family Survey of China (FSC06) which was newly conducted replicating NFRJ were analyzed. This is truly an innovative effort in the field of family study. Papers(in English) on the comparative analyses were read and discussions were made at International Workshop in December 2007. After revising these papers, final report(in English) of this project was compiled.Discussion on differences and similarities among families in the three societies were presented in the final report, covering such aspects of family life as generational relationship, division of labor between spouses, marital satisfaction, stress and family life, attitude on family, marriage pattern and investment of children s education in stratified society.However, considerable amount of time which was required for solving problems in the launching process of datasets sharing did not leave enough time for us to accomplish our aim thoroughly. We hope to continue and elaborate our analyses in depth and breadth in the next project which fortunately will be funded again by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C).