Abstract
This paper seeks to explain the changing pattern of mate selection and marriage for successors of rural stem families, by comparing the behavior of mate selection and marriage among generations through repeat interviews conducted by panel survey in Katsunuma-cho, Yamanashi Prefecture. The findings are : (1) the style of marriage has changed from arranged marriage to love match, the geographical pool from which most selection occurs has widened; the decision maker in mate selection has changed from parents to the concerned parties themselves; (2) the family-oriented pattern of marriage which was populer before World War II has been replaced by an individual-oriented pattern after the war, under the impact of spreading democracy and a growing economy; (3) such changes in marriage patterns mean that the concept of a conjugal family has entered into the stem family. (4) The changes have happened so gradually over three generations that no precise point of departure in time could be identified; (5) a double standard between males and females has remained throughout these changes.
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