In an age when everyone experiences caring, there is an increasing demand for caring family resource management that establishes caring as part of one's life and obtains and utilizes information related to care during the caring life that lasts for a certain period of time. The aim of this study is to analyze the content of books on caring published for the general public based on six elements of care-related living information. This study conducted a content analysis of how these six elements were included in thirty-four caring-related books for general family carers published between 1991 and 2021, divided into three periods.

  In the first period, the focus was on information about services related to long-term care and the reality of long-term care. In the second period, the focus was on the structure and procedures of the public long-term care insurance system and the services available, together with an explanation of the long-term care leave system with regard to balancing work and long-term care. In the third period, there was additional information on choosing better facilities for the elderly. Some books also include information on balancing work and caring, maintaining the physical and mental health of family carers, and taking care of one's own life. However, this is featured in just four of the eighteen books. This study has revealed the necessity to provide family carers with information on all six elements in an unbiased manner.

  To investigate the psychological effects of clothing color on people's color preference, an online questionnaire survey using CG T-shirt images on the computer display was conducted. As a result, regarding chromatic colors, the subjects tended to prefer cold colors over warm colors and light colors over dark colors. It was also observed that they preferred achromatic colors such as white and black. Furthermore, when color preference for clothing was quantitatively investigated using the L^*a^*b^* color system, it was found that the smaller the values of a^* and b^*, the higher the preference for the color. In other words, it is quantitatively clear that today's youth prefer clothing with hues that tend toward colder colors. The relationship between color preference regarding clothing and saturation C^*ab was also investigated, and we found that the color preference increased as the value of saturation C^*ab decreased, thereby quantitatively indicating the preference for slightly dull, dusty colors.

  The color preference regarding clothing among these subjects was highly correlated with the thermal sensation created by the color. With regard to chromatic colors, a strong preference toward T-shirt images creating a low thermal sensation was observed. However, in the case of achromatic colors, color preference toward them was found to be relatively higher than preference toward chromatic colors, regardless of thermal sensation.

  This study administered a questionnaire survey regarding mealtime practice at nursery schools. The study aimed to identify the efforts nrusery schools need to undertake regarding meals, considering their influence on children's eating behaviors. The results revealed that nursery schools rely on individual childcare providers to engage with children for feeding, which reconfirms a major role that each childcare provider is expected to play. Conversely, differences were observed among nursery schools in terms of the environmental setting that is expected to influence children's eating behaviors. Nursery schools are centers which can regulate childcare activities and the environment in which meals are served. From the perspectives of meal quality as well as support for childcare providers, it is crucial for each nursery school to make efforts to understand and share their knowledge regarding the significance of various environmental settings for daycare meals.