Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 5 “Father and Son” (父と子と), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on parenting in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, a Cat Stevens song, angry ghosts, and posessed crabs.

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- Articles on parenting, that give some historical insight and analysis of more recent attitudes and trends:

Holloway, Susan & Nagase, Ayumi. (2014). Child Rearing in Japan. 10.1007/978-94-007-7503-9_6.

The Japanese Family, Anne E. lmamura For Video Letter from Japan II: A Young Family. Asia Society (1990): 7-17.

- Youtube link for the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son" with original music video.

- Wikipedia page for the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son," and for the Japan-exclusive live album "Saturnight," which came out in 1974.

- Articles about ghosts in Japanese tradition generally: Yurei: Japanese Ghosts, Yūrei: the Ghosts of Japan, Ghosts on the shore, Ghosts, Demons and Spirits in Japanese Lore, and Ghosts in Ancient Japan.

- Funerary practices in American communities of Japanese descent.

- Modern changes to the funerary practices.

- Wikipedia pages on Japanese funerals, Yūrei (ghosts), and Onryō (vengeful spirits).

- Two stories about the crab ghosts, and a photograph of one of the crabs (see if you can spot the face-like markings!).

- Two versions of the Story of Hoichi.

- Other stories about the Taira ghosts that didn't make it into the podcast:

Ghosts of the Taira: The Relationship Between The Wars of The Gempei and the Warrior Ghost Noh Dramas Haunted at Sea: The Tale of Yoshitsune and the Taira Ghosts

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