Aging Among Japanese American Immigrants

The ethnographic research explores the ethnic dimensions of aging among Japanese and Japanese-American elderly in the United States, and illustrates their acculturative aging process and the parallel diminishment of culture-deculturative process.

Itsuko Kanamoto is Associate Professor of Anthropology and head of the Department of International Communication and Tourism, Heian Jogakuin University, Kyoto, Japan, and is the author of A Quantitative Study on Japanese Elderly inBrazil (Beneficencia Nipo-Brasileira de São Paulo), and also a contributor of Methodology for InterculturalCommunication Study.