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I am currently reading a book about an analysis of Japanese Culture and Society titled Japan - through the looking glass by Alan Macfarlane.



Some excerpts from the book from the section People:
"The full period of full adulthood, attained very late according to the Japanese ideas, is short."
"A child is only half an adult at 15, 80% an adult at 20, and becomes fully responsible at about 28."
"Having gone through 5 of the 12 year cycles of life, at 60 you retire and become a child again, with all the freedom that implies."
"Childhood is wild, loose; the middle part is contained and restrained and selfless. In old age and retirement you are free and unconstrained again."




My Household contains of A Child, A Soon to be Child and a Soon to be Adult :P