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Japan's changing generations : are young people creating a new society? / edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White
Bib ID 2544326
Format BookBook
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Description London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 
x, 206 p. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 0415322278
Series

Japan anthropology workshop series.

Summary

This book argues that ''the generation gap'' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties and early thirties are not engaged in overt social or political resistance, they are turning against the existing Japanese social order, whose legitimacy has been undermined by the past decade of economic downturn. The book shows how young people in Japan are thinking about their bodies and identities, their social relationships, and their employment and parenting, in new and generationally contextual ways, that may help to create a future Japan quite different from Japan of the recent past.

Full contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Contents
  • Introduction: Changing Generations in Japan Today p. 1
  • Gordon Mathews and Bruce White
  • Part One: The Japanese Generational Divide
  • Chapter 1: The Generation Gap in Japanese Society since the 1960s p.
  • 24
  • Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Chapter 2: Why are Japanese Youth Today so Passive? p. 53
  • Satoshi Kotani
  • Chapter 3: The Local Roots of Global Citizenship: Generational Change in a
 
Notes

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also available online via the World Wide Web, through Taylor and Francis eBook collection.

Subjects Conflict of generations -- Japan.  |  Young adults -- Japan.  |  Youth -- Japan.  |  Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Form/genre Electronic books.
Other authors/contributors Mathews, Gordon  |  White, Bruce, 1974-

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