great differences in family relations between Japan and China. In China,
many such relatives, and much more distant ones, would share pooled
resources, but in Japan they are gift or ‘contractual’ relatives. The
Japanese point out that it often happens that these persons have never
personally done a favor (on) for the person who is asked to come to
their aid; in helping them he is repaying on to their common ancestors.
This is the sanction behind caring for one's own children too—which of
course is a gimu—but even though the sanction is the same, assistance to
these more distant
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