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Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation During Economic and Demographic Stagnation

Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation During Economic and Demographic Stagnation

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138638986
ISBN13: 9781138638983
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 4 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, successful developing country with a high level of social equality to a country with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, and especially since the crisis of 2007-09, new forms of inequality are emerging and deepening. These new forms of inequality are complex, are caused in different ways by a variety of factors, and require deep-seated reforms in order to remedy them. This book provides a comprehensive overview of inequality in contemporary Japan. It examines inequality in labour and employment, in welfare and family, in education and social mobility, in the urban-rural divide, and concerning immigration, ethnic minorities and gender. The book also considers the widespread anxiety effect of the fear of inequality; and discusses how far these developments in Japan represent a new form of social problem for the wider world.

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