@article{oai:senshu-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00013618,
 author = {Tompkins, Rebecca},
 journal = {国際コミュニケーション研究, SENSHU REVIEW of INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Managing household waste is perhaps the most externally visible form of housework. In Japan, garbage disposal is a public and highly visible activity because in most municipalities garbage is collected from a communal pickup site and must be disposed of in transparent bags. In some locations, residents are requested or required to write their family names on the bags, making garbage disposal even less anonymous. It is often pointed out that garbage disposal in Japan is a public activity that can lead to social sanction. On the other hand, by properly sorting their garbage, residents -particularly housewives- can communicate that they understand and respect the rules of their community. In this way, household waste disposal becomes emblematic of a particularly gendered form of community belonging.
The purpose of this paper is first to explain how municipal solid waste management functions in one Japanese city, with a focus on the ways municipal and national waste regulations and infrastructure intersect with and influence residents' daily lives; and second, to identify and explore key themes that arise from this background, in particular the way that waste and waste work interacts with gendered social identities and the role of waste/work in local community building.},
 pages = {24--37},
 title = {Gender and Household Waste in Contemporary Japan : A Case Study of Tsukuba City},
 volume = {2},
 year = {2023}
}