“Through Japanese Eyes is a warm and sympathetic portrait of mutual support and cooperation among older people in the United States. Spanning from the 1980s through to the present day, it reveals the value of long-term personal engagement with a research site and subject matter.”
~Iza Kavedžija, author of Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
“Yohko Tsuji offers carefully crafted prose and an inviting tone that welcomes the reader to share her three decades of research on community-based aging. She begins with a critical overview of the anthropological scholarship on aging, giving students and colleagues a firm foundation in anthropological approaches to aging and why they are distinctly powerful. A native of Japan, she draws on both emic and etic perspectives in discussing how culture informs social networks based on mutual support, friendship, kinship, and proximity.”
~Maria Vesperi, co-editor of Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing
~Cornell Chronicle
"Aging in America: Professors study offers hope for fear of getting old" by Matt Steecker
~The Ithaca Journal
"Tsuji was born in Japan and came to the U.S. for college in the Seventies; she’s now an adjunct associate professor of anthropology on the Hill. Her new book, based on three decades of research at a senior center in Upstate New York, examines old age in America from a cross-cultural perspective, comparing how aging is experienced in her adopted and native countries. 'It seems that Americans detest old age because it represents the antithesis of the country’s cultural ideals. In other words, culture is the culprit for the plight of American elders,' Tsuji writes in the introduction. 'By contrast, Japanese culture seems to offer a neat prescription for the problems of old age: for example, co-residence with children, an emphasis on interdependence, and the Confucian ethics of filial piety.'”
~Cornell Alumni Magazine
~Made of Clay
~Triton Magazine
"I recommend the book for everyone."
~The Plaza Review
