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| | Contemporary Japan: Society and Culture | Asian Topics on Asia for Educators |
 | | First of all it is very clearly a patrilineal system in which all of the property, all of the social standing, all of the rights and duties and obligations are expected to go from father to son, father to son, father to son, which has a number of implications. |
 | | This kind of traditional Japanese family system the multigenerational family organized around primogeniture, that is to say passing the entire estate of the family, the social role, the financial assets, the occupation, the profession, from father to the eldest, usually the eldest son is a distinct characteristic of the Japanese kinship system. |
 | | Japanese, on the other hand, tend to regard university education as a kind of pre-determined pathway to particular kinds of careers, so that, for example, graduates of Tokyo University are typically recruited by the national bureaucracy to work in government. |
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