Ochiai, Emiko

Emiko Ochiai is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. She was an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and was a visiting research fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Her major research field is the historical and comparative sociology of the family and gender. Her book The Japanese Family System in Transition, A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan was published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into Korean, Chinese and English.