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David W. Plath. Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan. Pp. 235. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980. $17.50

Without footnotes or an index, this interesting and well-written book is easier for the layman to read and enjoy than to understand. Largely avoiding professional jargon, in hopes of broadening readership, Plath addresses his unconventional message to cultural anthropologists. Coining suitable technical terms to exploit a fresh concept, he tells the story of four middleaged and middle-class Japanese, two men and two women, of the Osaka-Kobe area, whom he interviewed in depth to gain new insights into how the character of mature persons takes shape over a period of