homeownership in Japan. We find that although both rural and urban households with higher incomes are more likely to transition to … homeownership, access in rural areas is more equally distributed over various income groups. Since most of the previous empirical …, whereas in rural areas homeownership is more equally distributed. Nonetheless, given the relatively low levels of household …

sexuality and the nation-state. I argue that both authors dealt with the sexual politics at work in premodern and modern Japan …