FAMTLY STRUCTURE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN JAPAN.

The article discusses family structure and industrialization in Japan. Modern Japan displays ail the major characteristics of an urbanized and industrialized nation. Well over one-half of her total population resides in localities administratively defined as urban; two-thirds of her economically active males are employed in nonagricultural pursuits. Indeed, numerous social, economic, and political indices justify placing her at a level of development comparable to that of leading urban-industrialized nations of the West. Yet the social organization supporting Japan's urban-industrialism reveals foci markedly different from those found in the West. Traces of feudal-agrarian modes of organization and motivation are still strong in such areas as employer-employee relations, handicraft production, and law enforcement. From this viewpoint, Japan represents the paradox of a highly industrialized society whose social organization contains viable elements characteristic of the peasant-agrarian social system.