Japan S Changing Generations

Author : Gordon Mathews,Bruce White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134353880

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Japan's Changing Generations by Gordon Mathews,Bruce White Pdf

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.

Author : James S. Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015042401979

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Japan's Successor Generation by James S. Marshall Pdf

Author : Werner Pascha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135789268

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Systemic Changes in the German and Japanese Economies by Werner Pascha Pdf

Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of differentiation are frequently underestimated. Important thematic issues include: contingency, path dependence and complementarity. Examinations of economic globalisation and rapidity of technological change pose questions about the nature of socio-economic system analysis in the future.

Author : Satsuki Kawano,Glenda S. Roberts,Susan Orpett Long
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824838706

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Capturing Contemporary Japan by Satsuki Kawano,Glenda S. Roberts,Susan Orpett Long Pdf

What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the “professional” housewife, managed the domestic sphere and the children, who were educated in a system that provided a path to mainstream success. In the past twenty years, however, Japanese society has seen a sharp increase in precarious forms of employment, higher divorce rates, and a widening gap between haves and have-nots. Contributors draw on rich, nuanced fieldwork data collected during the 2000s to examine work, schooling, family and marital relations, child rearing, entertainment, lifestyle choices, community support, consumption and waste, material culture, well-being, aging, death and memorial rites, and sexuality. The voices in these pages vary widely: They include schoolchildren, teenagers, career women, unmarried women, young mothers, people with disabilities, small business owners, organic farmers, retirees, and the elderly.

Author : Daniel H. Foote
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801353

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Law in Japan by Daniel H. Foote Pdf

This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the major fields of Japanese law, with special attention to the increasingly important areas of environmental law, health law, intellectual property, and insolvency. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical approaches, including legal, economic, historical, and socio-legal. As Law and Japan: A Turning Point is the only volume to take inventory of the key areas of Japanese law and their development since the 1960s, it will be an important reference tool and starting point for research on the Japanese legal system. Topics addressed include the legal system (with chapters on legal history, the legal profession, the judiciary, the legislative and political process, and legal education); the individual and the state (with chapters on constitutional law, administrative law, criminal justice, environmental law, and health law); and the economy (with chapters on corporate law, contracts, labor and employment law, antimonopoly law, intellectual property, taxation, and insolvency). Japanese law is in the midst of a watershed period. This book captures the major trends by presenting views on important changes in the field and identifying catalysts for change in the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert E. Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429717833

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Nato--the Next Generation by Robert E. Hunter Pdf

The survival of NATO as a viable alliance is currently challenged by a shift in the strategic balance of power, as well as by global events and contingencies that extend far beyond NATO's boundaries. In the face of these challenges, existing institutional mechanisms are proving inadequate to respond effectively. The distinguished contributors to this volume draw on their vast political and diplomatic experience to identify and analyze the problems confronting NATO for the remainder of the twentieth century. They make clear the need for a trans-Atlantic communication network among policymakers, scholars, and others–a network that will allow an ongoing process of analysis and assessment of NATO's strategic, economic, and political problems, along with the identification of appropriate reactions.

Author : Mimi Okabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781350325104

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Manga, Murder and Mystery by Mimi Okabe Pdf

Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.

Author : Kuei-Tien Chou,Koichi Hasegawa,Dowan Ku,Shu-Fen Kao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000079647

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Climate Change Governance in Asia by Kuei-Tien Chou,Koichi Hasegawa,Dowan Ku,Shu-Fen Kao Pdf

Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate change, in terms of economic losses attributed to climate-related disasters. Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such, its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central governments, state-society relations and international relations. In doing so it offers both a valuable overview of individual Asian countries’ approaches to climate change governance, and a series of case studies for finding solutions to climate change challenges.

Author : Michèle Schmiegelow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317235101

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Japan's Response to Crisis and Change in the World Economy by Michèle Schmiegelow Pdf

Originally published in 1986, after a period of global changes and financial crisis in the majority of industrialised countries, this book explores how Japan’s economy seemed to maintain its success. This study provides an overview of the Japanese case and the main schools of thought that arose from it by dealing with export-related issues such as reforms in foreign exchange and trade control laws and the internationalisation of Japan’s financial markets as well as more domestic issues such as employment and wages. This title will be of interest to students of Asian Studies and Economics.

Author : Scarrott
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483155623

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The Fifth Generation Computer Project by Scarrott Pdf

The Fifth Generation Computer Project is a two-part book consisting of the invited papers and the analysis. The invited papers examine various aspects of The Fifth Generation Computer Project. The analysis part assesses the major advances of the Fifth Generation Computer Project and provides a balanced analysis of the state of the art in The Fifth Generation. This part provides a balanced and comprehensive view of the development in Fifth Generation Computer technology. The Bibliography compiles the most important published material on the subject of The Fifth Generation.

Author : Adeniyi A. Afonja
Publisher : ChudacePublishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE: THE POWER OF "WE THE PEOPLE" by Adeniyi A. Afonja Pdf

Climate change is real and there are many natural processes that have caused severe changes over millions of years. Fertile land has transformed into deserts; some dry lands today were at one time under water and many places covered by water currently were dry lands. ‘We the People’ are not the cause of climate change but many of our activities are compromising the natural control processes of the Human Environment Systems: energy production and use; agriculture and land use; deforestation, prolific lifestyles that leave large carbon footprints. The pressure is on governments worldwide to mitigate climate change but ‘We the People’ hold the ace: we use most of energy and consume most of the products of agriculture, and our excesses are fueling demand for even more energy; we fund the energy companies through our stocks and share investments and can moderate their excesses; we elect the politicians and can influence their policies; and, through mass actions, we have surmounted governments in many places or forced changes in policies; we have the formidable weapon of the social media to effect change without stepping out. The Climate Change Mitigation Movement is already in motion but ‘We the People’ also need to moderate our choices and lifestyles in order to move the world to carbon neutrality which is a prerequisite for a sustainable environment.

Author : Richard Ronald,Allison Alexy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136888861

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Home and Family in Japan by Richard Ronald,Allison Alexy Pdf

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 changing. The book contextualises the shift from the hegemonic post-war image of standard family life, to the nuclear family and to a situation now where Japanese homes are more likely to include unmarried singles; childless couples; divorcees; unmarried adult children and elderly relatives either living alone or in nursing homes. It discusses how these new patterns are both reinforcing and challenging typical understandings of Japanese family life.

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills
Publisher : NBR
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780971393882

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Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy by Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills Pdf

Based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration) under Award Number DE-FG52-03SF22724.

Author : Paul Dunscomb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000992663

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The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade by Paul Dunscomb Pdf

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline which dominates the discourse on the period. The story of this crisis reveals much about the Japanese psyche during the “Lost Decade,” about the nature of change during Heisei Japan and of the nation’s resilience. The business of professional baseball provides crucial insights as it achieved its basic form at the same time as Japan's post-war political economy, and shared many characteristics with it, including systemic inefficiencies which post “bubble” Japan could no longer sustain. The book traces how the crisis unfolded and the cast of characters who appeared during it (including team owners, players, IT entrepreneurs, and ordinary fans) revealing much about the push and pull of continuity and change in Japan. Featuring an in-depth analysis or the key participants and developments of the crisis in baseball this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of sports management, Japanese history, and Japanese culture, particularly of the Heisei era.

Author : Ruth Elmquist Rogers,Helen Garrison Wheeler,Harry Humfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Cotton fabrics
ISBN : IND:30000106810462

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Physical and Chemical Changes Produced in Bleached Cotton Duck by Chaetomium Globosum and Spirochaeta Cytophaga by Ruth Elmquist Rogers,Helen Garrison Wheeler,Harry Humfeld Pdf