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Introduction  Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the "Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?: Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating Japan’s Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI Seniors’ Residential Care  Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children’s Literature 5. Girls, Old Women, and Fairytale Families in ‘The Old Woman’s Skin’ and Howl’s Moving Castle  Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant: Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public Representations of "Monster Parents"  Part IV: Transnational Families 8. Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety: Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation