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The strange child
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ISBN: 0804798567 9780804798563 9780804797078 0804797072 9780804798532 0804798532 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young. Andrea Gevurtz Arai's ethnography details the different forms of social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan starting in the late 1990s. Arai reveals the effects of shifting educational practices; increased privatization of social services; recessionary vocabulary of self-development and independence; and the neoliberalization of patriotism. Arai argues that the child problem and the social unease out of which it emerged provided a rationale for reimagining governance in education, liberalizing the job market, and a new role for psychology in the overturning of national-cultural ideologies. The Strange Child uncovers the state of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the politics of distraction around the child, and the altered life conditions of—and alternatives created by—the recessionary generation.

Generations in Touch
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ISBN: 0801438438 9780801438431 0801487323 9780801487323 150171757X 9781501717574 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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A dilemma long faced by western societies-how to bring the generations together-is also of growing concern in the east. In Japan, where, until recently, the extended family often lived under the same roof, social programs designed to facilitate interaction between old and young have proliferated. Leng Leng Thang offers an in-depth view of one of those programs, an unusual social welfare institution called Kotoen. Kotoen is a pioneering facility for multigenerational living, providing both daycare for preschoolers and a home for elderly residents. With its twin mottoes of fureai (being in touch) and daikazoku (large extended family), it has been the subject of widespread media attention and has served as a model for other institutions. Yet Kotoen has never before been studied seriously.Under its director's inspiring leadership, Kotoen looks unusually promising, but Thang is wary of simplistic conclusions. Her interviews, research, and work as a volunteer at Kotoen reveal the complaints common among some elderly residents toward their surroundings in old age institutions as well as the painful persistence of the traditional family ideal. Yet far from calling the experiment a failure, Thang challenges accepted wisdom and so-called common sense to reveal the advantages and limitations of the relationships fostered between Kotoen's "grandchildren" and "grandparents." The lessons learned from Kotoen illuminate the urgency of re-engaging the generations in an aging society and provide direction for improving the quality of life for all.

Modern Japanese society
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ISBN: 9004105166 9047412672 Year: 2004 Volume: 9 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

Demographic change and the family in Japan's aging society
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ISBN: 0791456501 0791456498 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Child's Play : Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan
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ISBN: 9780520296275 9780520968844 0520968840 0520296273 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations--some from Japan's early-modern past--are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters."--Provided by publisher.

Population decline and ageing in Japan - the social consequences.
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ISBN: 0415401259 9780415401258 9780203962022 9781134144969 9781134145003 9781134145010 9780415480116 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Routledge


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Aging and Loss
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ISBN: 0813565189 9780813565187 9780813565170 0813565170 9780813565163 0813565162 1322473226 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging population of Japan and how can these findings inform a path forward for the elderly, their families, and for policy makers? Based on nearly a decade of research, Aging and Loss examines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden. Through first-hand accounts of rituals in homes, cemeteries, and religious centers, Danely argues that what he calls the self-in-suspense can lead to the emergence of creative participation in an economy of care. In everyday rituals for the spirits, older adults exercise agency and reinterpret concerns of social abandonment within a meaningful cultural narrative and, by reimagining themselves and their place in the family through these rituals, older adults in Japan challenge popular attitudes about eldercare. Danely's discussion of health and long-term care policy, and community welfare organizations, reveal a complex picture of Japan's aging society.


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The demographic challenge
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ISBN: 1282396889 9786612396885 9047428110 9789047428114 9789004154773 9004154779 9781282396883 6612396881 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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This Handbook explores the challenges demographic change poses to today’s Japan. The first part provides the fundamental data involved, and the subsequent two parts address the social and cultural aspects of Japan’s demographic change. Parts four and five are dedicated to the political, economic and social security aspects of demographic change. The Handbook brings together a group of international scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds to take issue with the world’s fastest demographic transition. Topics include the dynamics of gender roles, images of age, policy formation, labour market structures, pension system, living arrangements, ethical values, and many more. Against the background of Japan’s demographic change, the latest developments in these fields are being introduced, and whenever appropriate set into a context of historical and/or international comparison. This Handbook is the first comprehensive publication in English on Japan’s demographic change. Contributors include: Makoto Atoh, Hans Dieter Ölschleger, Ryuichi Kaneko, Ralph Lützeler, Shigemi Kono, Matthias Koch, Sepp Linhart, Takeo Ogawa, Chikako Usui, Leng Leng Thang, Susan (Orpett) Long, Sawako Shirahase, Toshiko Himeoka, James Raymo, Miho Iwasawa, Akiko S Oishi, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, David Blake Willis, Susanne Formanek, Mayumi Sekizawa, Christopher S Thompson, John W Traphagan, Kenji Ishii, Craig Martin, Peter Backhaus, Fumio Inoue, Lisette Gebhardt, Nobuko Shiraishi, Sumiko Iwao, Roger Goodman, Takanori Shintani, Fumihiko Satofuka, Carolin Funck, John Clammer, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Leonard Schoppa, John C Campbell, Paul Talcott, David Potter, Robert Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka, Akihiro Ogawa, Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg, Liv Coleman, Glenda S Roberts, Thomas Feldhoff, Patricia Maclachlan, Naohiro Ogawa, Akihiro Kawase, Seiritsu Ogura, Volker Elis, Charles Yuji Horioka, Fumio Ohtake, Hisashi Fukawa, Naohiro Yashiro, Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Karen A Shire, Harald Conrad, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Andreas Moerke, Ito Peng, Naoki Ikegami, Makoto Arai, Tetsuo Fukawa, Takashi Oshio, Noriyuki Takayama, and Tomoyuki Kubo.

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Demographic transition --- Population aging --- Aging of population --- Aging population --- Aging society --- Demographic aging --- Graying (Demography) --- Greying (Demography) --- Age distribution (Demography) --- Transition, Demographic --- Vital revolution (Demography) --- Demography --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Government policy --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Population. --- J0034 --- J4009 --- J4109 --- J4204.90 --- J4223 --- J4306 --- J4330 --- Japan: General reference works -- statistics, handbooks and white papers --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology, anthropology and culture -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- age groups -- aged, elderly --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- aged, elderly --- Japan: Economy and industry -- reference works --- Japan: Economy and industry -- demography, population theory --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс


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Home and family in Japan : continuity and transformation
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ISBN: 0203840046 1299460720 113688887X 9781136888878 9780203840047 9780415488679 0415488672 9780415688048 0415688043 9781136888823 1136888829 9781136888861 1136888861 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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In the Japanese language the word 'ie' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book comprehensively addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, household patterns and kin relations are reacting to contemporary social, economic and urban transformations, and the degree to which traditional patterns of both houses and households are


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Deviance and inequality in Japan : Japanese youth and foreign migrants
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ISBN: 1447302044 1283078961 9786613078964 1847428339 9781847428332 9781283078962 9781847428325 1847428320 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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This book explores state controls in Japan, focusing on the interrelation of inequality and deviance of youth and migrant groups which leads to crime.

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Social control --- Deviant behavior --- Equality --- Youth --- Immigrants --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Deviancy --- Social deviance --- Human behavior --- Conformity --- Social adjustment --- Social conflict --- Pressure groups --- Soziale Kontrolle. --- Ungleichheit. --- Einwanderer. --- Jugend. --- Abweichendes Verhalten. --- Youth. --- Social stratification. --- Social conflict. --- Deviant behavior. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Social stratification --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Stratification, Social --- Social structure --- Social classes --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Social conditions. --- Criminology. --- Popular Culture. --- Public Policy --- Cultural Policy. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Immigres --- Conflits sociaux --- Japan. --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Social conditions --- J4208.001 --- J4224 --- J4204.30 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- racial and ethnic -- immigrants -- the West --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- youth, young men and women --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- age groups -- youth, minors --- I͡Aponii͡

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