Love and Life in Southwestern Japan: The Story of a One-hundred-Year-old Lady
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The coastal villages in southwestern Japan are known for its peculiar historical demographic features involving frequent pre-marital births and births without parents being married and frequent movement of children between households. This article explores habits regarding sex, marriage, and births behind these demographic features. It draws on an interview with an elderly woman who tells her own experiences and what she observed during most of her life time. The focus is on the woman’s subjectivity and how she interprets the relative sexual freedom that women in this area seem to have been granted. Her testimony often differs from interpretations offered in ethnographic research. Both the optimistic view praising sexual freedom as well as the contrasting view that deplores women’s victimization seem inadequate to grasp the woman’s testimony. According to her recollections intrusion into a married relationship often occurred, the father of children of pre-marital births was not necessarily the man who later became the husband of the mother, and child abuse by the mother’s new husband sometimes occurred. It also occurred that a woman abandoned her previous man to go with a new man. Love seems to have been a matter of great concern to both men and women in this region. The cost of sexual behaviours existed but it was not very high, partially because of economic independence of women, partially because of social support networks for taking care of the children born.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".