Show Family System Is Cracking 1 in Japan Says Observer The Tho Japanese family system described de- de scribed by Mrs Hugh Fraser Pierre oil Loti and other European visitors to Japan apan In the tho war pre-war days Is grad grad- gradually ally disintegrating according to the Tokyo correspondent of the Observer ot of f London who explains This system which still possesses posse e a 11 good deal of vitality especially In Inthe inthe the he country districts presupposes nn an attitude toward tOl life utterly different from rom that of European or American It Invests tho rho head of ot tho the family with great power over the destinies and property of ot Its members and at athe atthe atthe the he same sarno time Imposes on him biro n strong sense of ot responsibility It Is Isa Isa isa a frequent observation that tho the Wrongly e developed sense of family obligation and responsibility Is a great Ireat palliative of ot the unemployment which n modernized Industrial sy system system tem and n a rapidly growing population population tion lion have brought to Japan But nut the family system Is s being sapped by many and various carlous forces force tho the Influence In of ot Christian teachings the tho Infiltration of ot western moving pictures which may bo be seen In every Japanese small town translations translation from the literature of ot tho the West the steady drift away from patriarchal p farming and handicrafts to large ac ne tortes and commercial enterprises enter to mention only a few of ot the more obvious |