TY - BOOK ID - 32297526 TI - Japan's changing generations : are young people creating a new society? AU - Mathews, Gordon. AU - White, Bruce PY - 2005 SN - 0415322278 0415384915 PB - London RoutledgeCurzon DB - UniCat KW - Youth KW - Young adults KW - Conflict of generations KW - Jeunesse KW - Jeunes adultes KW - Conflit de générations KW - Japan KW - Japon KW - Social conditions KW - Conditions sociales KW - J4000.90 KW - J4204.30 KW - J4224 KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Adulthood KW - Gap, Generation KW - Generation gap KW - Generational conflict KW - Intergenerational conflict KW - Generations KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Social conflict KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- age groups -- youth, minors KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- youth, young men and women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32297526 AB - This book argues that "the generation gap" in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entertaining and comforming 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 a new and generationally contextual ways, that may help to create a future Japan quite different from Japan of the recent past. ER -