Being young in super-aging Japan : formative events and cultural reactions /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Heinrich, Patrick (Editor), Galan, Christian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 74.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: studying the young generation in super-aging Japan / Christian Galan
  • pt. I Formative events
  • 2. political economy of the declining birthrate / Yuiko Imamura
  • 3. From youth to non-adulthood in Japan: the role of education / Christian Galan
  • 4. Youth sexuality under the spotlight in a super-aged society with too few children / Beverley Anne Yamamoto
  • 5. Raising children and the emergence of new fatherhood in a super-aging society / Masako Ishii-Kuntz
  • 6. Struggling men in emasculated life-courses: non-regular employment among young men / Jun Imai
  • 7. Fukushima event, or the birth of a politicized generation / Anne Gonon
  • pt. II Cultural and emotional reactions
  • 8. "How average am I?" Youths in a super-aged society / Florian Coulmas
  • 9. structure of happiness: why young Japanese might be happy after all / Tim Tiefenbach
  • 10. Life on the small screen: Japan's Digital Natives / Hidenori Masiko
  • 11. Dialect cosplay: language use by the young generation / Patrick Heinrich
  • 12. No family, no school: young people in literature by young Japanese writers / Dan Fujiwara
  • 13. Visualizing elders by young artists: age and generational differences / Gunhild Borggreen
  • Conclusions
  • 14. Social rejuvenation and change: the resilient generation of the Heisei period / Patrick Heinrich.