Japan's changing generations : are Japanese young people creating a new society? /

Japan's changing generations : are Japanese young people creating a new society? / edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White. - 224 p. - Japan anthropology workshop series . - Japan anthropology workshop series. .

Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Japanese Generational Divide -- The Generation Gap in Japanese Society since the 1960s -- Why are Japanese Youth Today so Passive? -- The Local Roots of Global Citizenship: Generational Change in a Kyushu Hamlet -- How Teenagers Cope With the Adult World -- How Japanese Teenagers Cope: Social Pressures and Personal Responses -- Youth Fashion and Changing Beautification Practices -- 'Guiding' Japan's University Students through the Generation Gap -- How Young Adults Challenge the Social Order -- Seeking a Career, Finding a Job: How Young People Enter and Resist the Japanese World of Work -- Mothers and Their Unmarried Daughters: An Intimate Look at Generational Change -- What Happens When They Come Back: How Japanese Young People with Foreign University Degrees Experience the Japanese Workplace -- Centered Selves and Life Choices: Changing Attitudes of Young Educated Mothers -- Epilogue: Are Japanese Young People Creating a New Society?. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. Part 2. 4. 5. 6. Part 3. 7. 8. 9. 10.

0415384915 (pbk.) : £19.99

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Youth--Japan
Young adults--Japan
Conflict of generations--Japan


Japan--Social conditions--1945-

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