Japan's Changing Generations - Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Hardcover, New)

Contents:
Introduction: Changing Generations in Japan Today Gordon Mathews and Bruce White
Part One: The Japanese Generational Divide
1. The Generation Gap in Japanese Society since the 1960s Tetsuo Sakurai
2. Why are Japanese Youth Today so Passive? Satoshi Kotani
3. The Local Roots of Global Citizenship: Generational Change in a Kyushu Hamlet Bruce White
Part Two: How Teenagers Cope With the Adult World
4. How Japanese Teenagers Cope: Social Pressures and Personal Responses Peter Ackermann
5. Youth Fashion and Changing Beautification Practices Laura Miller
6. 'Guiding' Japan's University Students through the Generation Gap Brian McVeigh
Part Three: How Young Adults Challenge the Social Order
7. Seeking a Career, Finding a Job: How Young People Enter and Resist the Japanese World of Work Gordon Mathews
8. Mothers and Their Unmarried Daughters: An Intimate Look at Generational Change Lynne Nakano and Moeko Wagatsuma
9. What Happens When They Come Back: How Japanese Young People with Foreign University Degrees Experience the Japanese Workplace Shunta Mori
10. Centered Selves and Life Choices: Changing Attitudes of Young Educated Mothers Ayumi Sasagawa