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Being Young in Super-Aging Japan : Formative Events and Cultural Reactions, Paperback / softback Book

Being Young in Super-Aging Japan : Formative Events and Cultural Reactions Paperback / softback

Edited by Patrick (University Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy.) Heinrich, Christian (University of Toulouse-Jean-Jaures, France) Galan

Part of the Routledge Contemporary Japan Series series

Paperback / softback

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Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed.

This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline.

Nobody is more affected by these changes than the young generation.

This book studies Japanese youth in the aging society in detail.

It analyses formative events and cultural reactions.

Themes include employment, parenthood, sexuality, but also art, literature and language, thus demonstrating how the younger generation can provide insights into the future of Japanese society more generally.

This book argues that the prolonged crisis resulted in a commonly shared destabilization of thoughts and attitudes and that this has shaped a new generation that is unlike any other in post-war Japan. Presenting an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the aging trend and what it implies for young Japanese, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, as well cultural anthropology and demography.

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