Goodman - A sociology of Japanese youth: from returnees to NEETs

Over the past thirty years, at the same time as Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures such as anime and manga which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. This volume looks at some of the best-known of these problems, from the concern over the so-called returnee children (kikokushijo) in the 1970s, to the debates over physical punishment (taibatsu) in the 1980s, to the panic over young girls selling themselves for sex (enjo ksai) in the 1990s, to growing fears of child abuse (jid gyakutai) in the 1990s, to the most recent issues of young people shutting themselves away in their room (hikikomori) or appearing to withdraw completely from both the education and the labour market (NEETs). Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors set these issues in a clearly articulated social constructionist framework that explains why particular youth problems appeared when they did and what lessons they can provide for the study of youth problems in other societies.

This book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture, the sociology of Japan, Japanese anthropology and the comparative sociology of youth studies.

Roger Goodman is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Yuki Imoto is a Research Associate at Keio University, Japan.

Tuukka Toivonen is a Junior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK.

Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Fellow, St Antonys College; J.A.A. Stockwin, formerly Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and former Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow, St Antonys College; Alan Rix, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland; Junji Banno, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo, now Professor, Chiba University; Leonard Schoppa, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, and Director of the East Asia Center, University of Virginia

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