目次

Part I: Introduction 1. Happiness in Japan through the anthropological lens, Wolfram Manzenreiter and Barbara Holthus Part II: Family, Intimacy and Friendship 2. More than just nakayoshi: Marital intimacy as a key to personal happiness, Dalit Bloch 3. Intimate relationships: Friendships, marriage and gender in Japan, Laura Dales 4. Happiness and unconventional life choices: Views of single women in Japan, Lynne Nakano 5. Physical intimacy and happiness in Japanese families: Sexless marriages and parent-child co-sleeping, Yoshie Moriki 6. Japanese gays, the closet and the culture-dependent concept of happiness, Erick Laurent 7. Grandfathering in contemporary Japan: Altruistic and self-serving means to happiness, Hiroko Umegaki-Costantini Part III: Self and Community 8. Makers and doers: Using actor-network theory to explore happiness in Japan’s invisible civil society, Patricia G. Steinhoff 9. Dimensions of happiness for young political activists: A case study of "Greens Japan" members, Phoebe Holdgrün 10. Living and working for the moment: Motivations, aspirations and experiences of disaster volunteers in Tōhoku, Susanne Klien 11. "A really warm place": Well-being, place, and the experiences of buraku youth, Christopher Bondy 12. “My life is Taiyō Kōmuten”: On the relationship between organized football fandom and happiness in Japan, Martin Lieser 13. The midnight community, or under-the-counter happiness, Carmen Tamas and Adrian Tamas Part IV: Conclusions 14. Happiness in neoliberal Japan, Gordon Mathews 15. Happiness as balancing act between agency and social structure, Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter