Algures numa rua da cidade de Quioto uma senhora passeia tranquilamente a sua cadela.A propósito da dedicação dos japoneses aos seus amigos caninos: " It's easy to assume that there must be some correlation between the decline in Japan's birth rate and the corresponding boom in small dogs in prams. Professor Masahiro Yamada of Chuo University, a sociologist who has been looking at attitudes to family and marriage for years, says that the affection and money lavished on dogs in Japan is about more than finding surrogate children. "I think dog owners want to feel that they can be trusted by their dogs, that they are needed by them," he says. "It's not only single women and couples without children who keep dogs but many married couples too."
Monocle - issue 53 (91-92)
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