[[Coresidence with parents and marriage in modern Japan]]

Marriage trends and parental coresidence in Japan are analyzed using data on 9,000 couples from the 1987 Ninth National Fertility Survey. Consideration is given to age at marriage, residence characteristics, birth order, family size, and intergenerational transfers related to birth order. The author finds that "the percentage of children coresiding with parents at marriage has hardly changed and continued to be about 30 percent...since [the] 1960s." Comments on these findings by Kiyomi Morioka, Nobuyoshi Toshitani, and Makoto Atoh are included in Japanese (pp. 71-3). (SUMMARY IN ENG)