- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (20 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415322278
- ISBN-13: 978-0415322270
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,732,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
About the Author
Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001).
Bruce White is Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Europe-Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University; he is the author of the Ph.D thesis 'Modernity's Children: Generational Change, Identity, and Global Citizenship in Japan'.
Bruce White is Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Europe-Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University; he is the author of the Ph.D thesis 'Modernity's Children: Generational Change, Identity, and Global Citizenship in Japan'.
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Very useful updated articles, 13 Jan 2008
By Irene Serafini "bigiork" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series) (Paperback)
This book is very helpful for those studying issues of contemprary Japan. There are some very interesting translations of Japanese academics that deal with issues of which is difficult to find English resources.
Recommended.
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