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Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty

Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty

Roberts, Glenda S.
Long, Susan Orpett
Kawano, Satsuki

Hardcover

LaborAnthropology

ISBN10: 0824838688
ISBN13: 9780824838683
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Aug 31 2014
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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