Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan - Harvard East Asian Monographs

Mark Jones examines the making of a new child’s world in Japan, 1890–1930, and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. He also places the story of modern childhood within a broader social context—the emergence of a middle class in early twentieth century Japan.