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A sociology of Japanese youth : from returnees to NEETs.
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ISBN: 9780415669269 9780415669276 9780203802076 9781136624230 9781136624278 9781136624285 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Routledge

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"Over the past thirty years, at the same time as Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures - such as anime and manga - which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors set these issues in a clearly articulated 'social constructionist' framework, and put forth a sociology of Japanese youth problems which argues that the Japanese media draw on an equally, if not more, perplexing gallery of social categories when it discusses youth than affluent Western societies such as the US or UK. Moreover, the book contends that Japan is no less replete with social problems involving young people and no less capable of generating hysteria over the fate of its youth. The chapters include case studies covering issues such as: Returnee children, Compensated dating, Corporeal punishment, Child abuse, The withdrawn youth, NEET (not in education, employment or training). By examining these various social problems collectively, A sociology of Japanese youth shows how seemingly disparate events follow a similar pattern and how clusters of concepts are historically linked."--Publisher's description.


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The happy youth of a desperate country : the disconnect between Japan's malaise and its milennials
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ISBN: 9784916055835 Year: 2017 Volume: *6 Publisher: Tokyo Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Juvenile Delinquency in Japan : Reconsidering the "Crisis"
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ISBN: 1280467797 9786610467792 1423714350 9047402561 9781423714354 9789047402565 9004132538 9789004132535 9781280467790 661046779X Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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How to explain juvenile delinquent behaviour in the Japan of the nineties? Are its reasons really fundamentally different from those in other societies? Juvenile Delinquency in Japan, written by leading Japanese and German scholars, for the first time looks comprehensively into the phenomenon. It does so from a variety of disciplines; law, sociology, education, and Japanese studies. Thus it explores the legal provisions, conditions of schooling, family life, and social change in society as a framework for understanding delinquent behaviour in Japanese high school students. It becomes clear that reasons for delinquency are the same in Japan as in other societies. Fundamentally different, however, are the high sensitivity to delinquent behaviour and the tremendous efforts to prevent nonconformist behaviour.


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Voice, Silence, and Self : Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan
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ISBN: 9780674088405 0674088409 1684175615 9781684175611 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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"Based on extensive ethnographic research and interviews, this longitudinal work explores the experience of Burakumin youth from two different communities and with different social movement organizations"--

Japan's changing generations : are young people creating a new society?
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ISBN: 0415322278 0415384915 Year: 2005 Publisher: London RoutledgeCurzon

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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.


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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.


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Home and family in Japan
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ISBN: 0203840046 1299460720 113688887X 9781136888878 9780203840047 9780415488679 0415488672 9780415688048 0415688043 9781136888823 1136888829 9781136888861 1136888861 Year: 2011 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York

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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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