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‖ tonari gumi|toˈnari ˈgumi| Also tonari-gumi, tonarigumi. [Jap.] A neighbourhood association in Japan, formed of groups of families who assume responsibility for their own community affairs.
1947R. Benedict Chrysanthemum & Sword iv. 82 Japan had, like China, tiny units of five to ten families, called in recent times the tonari gumi, which were the smallest responsible units of the population. 1958W. J. H. Sprott Human Groups 93 In Japanese cities they have associations called tonari-gumi, made up of from ten to twenty households. 1980J. Melville Chrysanthemum Chain 119 People who lived nearby..members of Murrow's tonari⁓gumi or neighbourhood association. |