[[Demographic life courses of women in Japan: a reappraisal]].

The author examines the life courses of cohorts of Japanese women born from 1890 to 1940, and makes projections for those born in 1950 and later. "In [the] past hundred years, demographic changes in women's life courses in Japan were mainly characterized by rapid fall of mortality and fertility...[and] cohort by cohort, age at marriage of women in Japan has gradually been rising....[The author] suggests the intense needs for policies of social and economic welfare for family of mother and children and policies for equal wage between working men and women in contemporary Japan." (SUMMARY IN ENG)