Ezra F. Vogel books

Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb

Shortly after arriving in Mamachi, we invited six families to our house for a picnic luncheon. As soon as the invitations were issued, the wives got together and decided that husbands were not to attend, and indeed, the husbands did not attend. Despite ideology to the contrary, it is clear that h...