REIKO ISHIHARA

            Edwards, Walter.  Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person and Society in Ritual Portrayal.
            Stanford University Press, 1989.

           Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra. Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides.
           University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

            Hendry, Joy.  Marriage in Changing Japan.  Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1981.

            For more on Japanese women in contemporary community politics, read:

           LeBlanc, Robin. Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (Asia: Local
             Studies/Global Themes).  University of California Press, 1999.

           For more on Japanese youth culture, read:

            Skov, Lise and Brian Moeran (eds.).  Women, Media and Consumption in Japan.
            University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.  (see last few chapters)

            White, Merry I.  The material child : Coming of Age in Japan and America.
            New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell
            Macmillan International, c1993.

           To learn about Reiko Ishihara's home in Japan, learn about Shiga Prefecture:
           Welcome to Shiga