Journal of Home Economics of Japan
Online ISSN : 1882-0352
Print ISSN : 0913-5227
ISSN-L : 0913-5227
Volume 58, Issue 5
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  • --A Case Study on Children Who Go to GAKUDOHOIKUSYO--
    Yukari TSUKADA, Akiko KOITO
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 231-246
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    This paper aims to clarify how the parent' time to return home as well as their lifestyle affect their children's life after school. A questionnaire coupled with hearing survey was conducted in two cities of Osaka and Kobe. The subjects were those families who had their lower grade children spend time at private GAKUDOHOIKUSYO after school. The findings are as follows: 1) The children's home life is shortened as they return home late, consequently decreasing their free or leisure time at home. 2) Nearly half of the families are required to have their children go to another childcare place before coming home. The need of the second facility tends to increase where the difference of parents' return home time is later than their children's time by over thirty minutes. 3) Parents' late coming home inevitably delays the dinner and bedtime, and the late bedtime is likely to cause lack of sleep. The lack of sleep is bound to cause loss of appetite at breakfast. 4) Parents' late return home affects the communication with their children, shorter family life and less frequent family dinner. 5) In view of sharing between father and mother in housekeeping childcare, the degree of cooperation is not unrelated to communication with children. Where both parents come home early, children's life rhythm is stabilized, the family communication is kept close, and children are likely to help their parents at home. Where parents share their responsibility at home, they are allowed to have time with their children. In conclusion, things would work out fine when parents returned home around the time when children arrived home.
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  • Fumiko KONISHI, Chinatsu ITO, Yasuo KIMURA, Kayoko KANEKO
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 247-254
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    The effects of the body composition, and of exercise, dietary and sleeping habits on bone mass of young people were studied. The bone mass of 339 males and 262 females aged 18-29 years were measured by the ultrasound methods. The bone mass of those subjects who exercised more than 3 times per week was significantly higher than of those with no exercise habits at school age. The subjects who continuously exercised from elementary to junior high school had the highest bone mass. A higher frequency of eating small fish in the school-aged diet was associated with higher bone mass. The bone mass of the female subjects who went to bed later than 1 a.m. was significantly lower than of those who went to bed before 1 a.m. in junior high school, high school or the present time. Multiple linear regression analysis showed exercise in junior high school to be the factor having the highest association with bone mass, this being followed by body weight and the time of going to bed in high school.
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  • Natsuko SOGABE, Rieko MARUYAMA, Masae GOSEKI-SONE
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 255-260
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    Lactose is known to enhance passive calcium absorption independent of vitamin D endocrine system. However, the effect of lactose on other metabolism is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of long-term lactose feeding on intestinal alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. A total of 30 female Sprague-Dawley rats (6 weeks old) were divided into three groups, and fed a control diet, a 3% lactose or a 10% lactose diet, respectively. After 56 days, intestinal ALP activity in the ileum from the 3% or 10% lactose group was significantly higher than the control group ( p<0.01, respectively). These data suggest that the long-term lactose feeding influences on intestinal ALP activity.
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  • Yukinori SATO, Osato MIYAWAKI
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 261-270
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    The physical meaning of the parameters used for evaluating food for the elderly, which were established by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, were investigated with aqueous solutions. The “katasa” parameter based on the shear stress (τb) could not reflect an apparent viscosity of under 500 mPa·s, whereas the parameter was appropriate for a sample of over 500 mPa·s viscosity. This is presumed to be the result of unsteady flow due to the gap between the internal surface of the sample cell and the plunger. A closer correlation to the viscosity could be obtained with the τc5-10 parameter, the force exerted on the plunger divided by the area of the side surface of the plunger. This implies that the stress on the side surface is larger than that on the bottom surface of the plunger.
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  • Maiko TATEMATSU, Akane HARAGUCHI, Toshiko YUKAWA
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 271-281
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    This paper aims to propose the teaching contents of early childhood education for junior high school teachers in their home economics class. The contents presently taught by over 90% of teachers are related to children's physical and mental development as well as their life. Meanwhile, the contents, which teachers consider necessary but not included in their lessons, are the area related to the efforts to provide children with the environment required for playing as well as their growth and development. Such being the case, this paper proposes the teaching contents for teachers to have their students learn about the following set of three items: Children's Growth & Development, Children's Life, and Role of Family in promoting the first and second items. At the same time, students are guided to give thought, as a member of the society, on how the children's environment should be.
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  • --With a Focus on the Clothing of Kamakura-Kubou--
    Kazuya SUGIYAMA
    2007 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 283-292
    Published: 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: July 29, 2010
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    Kamakura-nenchuu-gyouji is a description of the clothing in various classes of samurai in East Japan. The clothes and accessories were different for each class. They were required by Kamakura-kubou to dress in different colors, shapes, and materials. This applied to every event and ceremony. There were also differences in vehicles. Mon, weaved into clothes, was also very important, because Mon was an expression of the Japanese sense of beauty. The giving a way of clothes after wearing them was also very important in the Muromachi period. The rules of clothing applied not only to daily clothing but also to armaments. Clothing always symbolized the classes and formality. In East Japan in the Muromachi period, the clothing of samurai were determined not by the scale of one's power but by the status of the Kamakura-Fu.
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