Abstract
This paper aims to make clear the relations between elderly parents and the grown-up children, and their housing needs in modern Japan through the case study method. The data for the analysis is gathered the interviews with fifty one persons who lived in the area stricken by the Great Hanshin-Awaj i Earthquake. As the result of this study, the diversities of parent-child relationships and the needs to various choices which are supplied by the government and the private sector toward housing rehabilitation, was recognized anew.
