Abstract: Once “Muenshi” phenomenon was discovered and spread by Japanese TV Station NHK, it has become a hot topic of the society, and lots of researches on it have appeared in the last 5 years. Japan sociology academic attributes it to the disintegration of the community, namely the family disintegration due to the family function, much unemployment because of reformation of employment system. The Japanese society is going to be individualization. From their researches, we could give a conclusion that the academic has not got rid of the ideology of collectivism yet. There is still a tendency that community is a stable, static and cohesive group. However, the ideology not only has contradiction in the logic, but also conform to the Japanese experience.

Key words: Muenshi, communitarianism, patriarcha, modern family, duality of structure