I will talk about living on own in the USA. Especially I will focus on the good about living on own and bad about living on own. Basically living on own means living the separate from your family. There are a lot of good and bad about it, however before I mention about it, I would like to make sure that how does parents and children feel when they decide to living on own because both of them feel different. For parents, they feel sad and joyful actually. They feel sad because the parents can’t live with their children anymore and it makes them hard to meet quite often. They feel joyful when they meet their children after living on own because the parents are able to see how the children grow up comparing with their childhood. What the happiest thing is growing up healthy. For children, they feel happy often because they think it is a way of being adult. 
              
     Next, I will talk good about living on own. One of the biggest is can be
responsible. If the children living on own, they have to wash the clothes and to
clean the room themselves because no parents in the house or dormitory. Some children work hard to get the money for paying school expenses. It’s one of having responsibility. After writing this blog about living on own, I thought
that usually the parents worry about how to get the food and how security is,
however they lives dormitory and they have cafeteria in dormitory. 
 
       
     Finally, I will talk bad about living on own. The living on own is more
expensive than living with family because the children needs new furniture. The
money is important for us to alive. Also they feel homesick which a sensation
for missing the family is. Basically living on own is far away from parent’s
house. After separate from their family, they can do whatever they want because when we were child, the parents were to judge what’s going
on.

   In conclusion, there are lots of good and bad about living on own. I think the symbol of it is the key. Every day they use it to enter the room and no body supposed to inside of room. If you are living on own, you will be responsible person. I think it’s a myth. The living on own is a translate stage which is second because the living on own makes people be more responsible. Also, I think this rite of passage is ritualization because there is no strict step. The living on own is for mainly parents because it influence the parents to think about their children.    

References
Corin Yamaguchi
http://okwave.jp/qa/q3324714.html
 
 

Living on one's own is a big transition from living at home for years. In my opinion, living on one's own could mean either just moving away from one's parents but receiving money or completely being independent from them. This transition in Japan is fairly similar to that of the U.S., though it differs in a few aspects.

At Tokyo International University, along with many other Japanese colleges, only about half of the students live away from home in apartments, while the other half live at home with their parents. Dormitories are very rare at Japanese colleges, so if a person lives far from school, they will rent an apartment if they can afford do so. Surprisingly, sharing an apartment with a roommate is uncommon, so costs are never split. Apartments around TIU are roughly 66,000 yen per month, which is about 660 dollars! It is also common for students who live in apartments to receive rent money from their parents.

Those who live at home do so mostly for economic reasons, though it is common amongst college students to want to leave home. Parents typically want their kids to stay  at home because they are worried and would be sad if they left, though they may not always say these things to them. If, however, they do let them leave, the parents will help pay for housing materials and will help their child move in. For many ASP students, living in America has been their first time living on their own. Many think living away from home has been a great experience as it has been more fun and makes them more responsible, though it does come with the price of feeling homesick from time to time.

After college is when most Japanese people transition to living completely independently. Many students go on to get full time jobs and can afford to pay for apartments themselves. Symbols for living on ones own could be their apartment key, as it represents their own place which requires their own responsibilities. It is believed that living on one's own will make him or her grow up and become more adult like. If a young adult doesn't leave home, they become what is known in Japan as parasite singles. These people may not be or employed or can be fully employed but still live with their parents well into their 20's. Majority of them do not help with housework or living expenses and do not leave until they get married. This creates the belief that they will not become adults until they marry, which, simultaneously, is when they will move out. These beliefs may certainly influence people whether to move away from home or not. 


I would classify moving away as a ritual as there is a lot of meaning in the process. Though everybody does it at a different time and there is no particular order to the transition, this can be seen as "performing" the "text" in different ways. I believe it takes place in the separation stage as moving away from home means leaving a familiar life behind.


References:

Takuya Koizumi
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country=Japan&city=Tokyo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_singles