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Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years -- the Meiji era and postwar period -- to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as babysitter; a marriage without children.

Families --- J4170 --- J4000.90 --- J4330 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Economy and industry -- demography, population theory --- 20th century. --- anthropology. --- contemporary families. --- demographic studies. --- family making. --- family models. --- family relationships. --- family. --- global powers. --- historical. --- japan. --- japanese families. --- japanese history. --- marriage and family. --- meiji era. --- modern history. --- modern japan. --- nonfiction study. --- nontraditional families. --- postwar japan. --- social customs. --- social studies. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- students and teachers. --- textbooks. --- traditional families.

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"This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo's extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society"--

Olympics --- Popular culture --- J6902 --- J6900.90 --- J4000.90 --- J4300.90 --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Games, Olympic --- Olympic games --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Planning --- Political aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Security measures&delete& --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- societies, organizations, congresses, periodicals, tournaments and events --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- E-books --- Planning. --- Security measures

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Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940's and 1950's, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960's and 1970's, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970's. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.

Political activists --- Civil society --- Citizenship --- Activists, Political --- Persons --- Political participation --- Social contract --- Japan --- Politics and government --- J4000.90 --- J4127 --- J4628 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social identity and self --- Japan: Politics and law -- state -- citizenship --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- civic activism. --- civic groups. --- civic thought. --- contemporary japan. --- democracy. --- government reform. --- historians. --- industrialized nations. --- japan. --- japanese citizens. --- japanese history. --- japanese society. --- local government. --- modern history. --- political participation. --- popular nationalism. --- postwar era. --- postwar japan. --- protests. --- retrospective. --- self reliance. --- shimin mythology. --- social activists. --- social cultural history. --- social movements.

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Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement boom. Meanwhile, legacies of prewar associational activities shape the costs of association-building and information-gathering, thus affecting the actual extent of the postwar boom. Combining original data collection, rigorous statistical methods, and in-depth historical case analyses, this book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work.

Civil society --- Political participation --- Postwar reconstruction --- J3390 --- J4000.90 --- J4600.90 --- Post-conflict reconstruction --- Reconstruction, Postwar --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Social contract --- History --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan --- Politics and government --- Citizen participation. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face of persistently adverse conditions. In Race for the Exits, Leonard J. Schoppa explains why it has endured and how long it can last. The postwar Japanese system of "convoy capitalism" traded lifetime employment for male workers against government support for industry and the private (female) provision of care for children and the elderly. Two social groups bore a particularly heavy burden in providing for the social protection of the weak and dependent: large firms, which committed to keeping their core workforce on the payroll even in slow times, and women, who stayed home to care for their homes and families.Using the exit-voice framework made famous by Albert Hirschman, Schoppa argues that both groups have chosen "exit" rather than "voice," depriving the political process of the energy needed to propel necessary reforms in the system. Instead of fighting for reform, firms slowly shift jobs overseas, and many women abandon hopes of accommodating both family and career. Over time, however, these trends have placed growing economic and demographic pressures on the social contract. As industries reduce their domestic operations, the Japanese economy is further diminished. Japan has also experienced a "baby bust" as women opt out of motherhood. Schoppa suggests that a radical break with the Japanese social contract of the past is becoming inevitable as the system slowly and quietly unravels.

Social security --- Economic security --- Human services --- Sécurité sociale --- Sécurité économique --- Services sociaux --- Japan --- Japon --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Social policy. --- Economic policy --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Politique sociale --- Politique économique --- Social policy --- J4216 --- J4210 --- J4301 --- J4000.90 --- -Economic security --- -Human services --- -Services, Human --- Security, Economic --- Welfare economics --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- social welfare, social security --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology --- Japan: Economy and industry -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- -Economic conditions --- -Social policy. --- -J4216 --- -Social security --- Sécurité sociale --- Sécurité économique --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- Services, Human --- Social security - Japan --- Economic security - Japan --- Human services - Japan --- Japan - Social conditions - 1945 --- -Japan - Economic conditions - 1989 --- -Japan - Social policy --- Japan - Economic policy - 1989 --- 1989-.... --- 1945-....