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Being Young in Super-Aging Japan

Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is more affected by these changes than the young generation.

This book studies Japanese youth in the aging society in detail. It analyzes formative events and cultural reactions. Themes include employment, parenthood, sexuality, but also art, literature, and language, thus demonstrating how the younger generation can provide insights into the future of Japanese society more generally. This book argues that the prolonged crisis resulted in a commonly shared destabilization of thoughts and attitudes and that this has shaped a new generation that is unlike any other in post-war Japan.

Presenting an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of the aging trend and what it implies for young Japanese, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, as well cultural anthropology and demography.

Patrick Heinrich is Associate Professor at Ca Foscari University in Venice, Italy. His recent publications include (with Dick Smakman) Urban Sociolinguistics (Routledge 2017) and The Making of Monolingual Japan (2012).

Christian Galan is Professor at Toulouse-Jean Jaurs University, France and researcher at the CEJ-Inalco in Paris. His recent publications include (with E. Lozerand) La Famille japonaise moderne (18681926) (2011) and (with J.-M. Olivier) Histoire du & au Japon (2016).

Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

69Local Politics and National Policy

Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond

Ken Victor Leonard Hijino

70Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film

David C. Stahl

71Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto

72Japans Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia

Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia

Taizo Miyagi

73Gender and the Koeski in Contemporary Japan

Surname, Power and Privilege

Linda White

74Being Young in Super-Aging Japan

Formative Events and Cultural Reactions

Edited by Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan

75The Japanese Communist Party

Permanent Opposition, but Moral Compass

Peter Berton with Sam Atherton

76Japans Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 19421945

The Occupiers Experience

Satoshi Nakano

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Contemporary-Japan-Series/book-series/SE0002

Being Young in Super-Aging Japan

Formative Events and Cultural Reactions

Edited by Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan

First published 2018
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ISBN: 978-1-138-49497-8 (hbk)
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Contents

PATRICK HEINRICH AND CHRISTIAN GALAN

PART I
Formative events

YUIKO IMAMURA

CHRISTIAN GALAN

BEVERLEY ANNE YAMAMOTO

MASAKO ISHII-KUNTZ

JUN IMAI

ANNE GONON

PART II
Cultural and emotional reactions

FLORIAN COULMAS

CAROLA HOMMERICH AND TIM TIEFENBACH

HIDENORI MASIKO (TRANSLATED BY YUKA ANDO)

PATRICK HEINRICH

DAN FUJIWARA

GUNHILD BORGGREEN

CHRISTIAN GALAN AND PATRICK HEINRICH

1. i
2. ii

Yuka Ando is Lecturer of Japanese Language at Duisburg-Essen University. Prior to joining Duisburg-Essen University in 1999, she worked at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. Ando is specialized in teaching material development and language teaching pedagogy. Her research focuses on cognitive linguistics and the acquisition of Japanese case particles among foreign language learners.

Gunhild Borggreen is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary art and visual culture with special attention to the social turn in contemporary Japanese visual arts, as well as topics such as performance, national identity and gender. Borggreen is a co-founder and project manager of the research network ROCA (Robot Culture and Aesthetics). Publications include Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan in Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan (2017), Cute and Cool in Contemporary Japan in Social Aesthetics: Between Experiencing and Imagining (Brill, 2015), and Drawing Disasters: Manga Responses to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in Comic and Power (2015).

Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at Duisburg-Essen University. He is associate editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and author of more than 20 books, among them Population Decline and Ageing in Japan: The Social Consequences (Routledge, 2009). Among his many edited books, there is The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (Brill, 2008).

Dan Fujiwara is Associate Professor at the University Toulouse-Jean Jaurs and member of the Centre for Japanese Studies (CEJ-INALCO). His research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese literature, representations of family, adolescence and childhood, border-crossing literature (ekky bungaku) and post-Fukushima literature. He has published Lendroit et lenvers des couples maris dans les romans de Natsume Sseki in La Famille japonaise moderne (18681926): Discours et dbats (2011); Ladolescent par lui-mme: une nouvelle figure de la literature japonaise contemporaine? in

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