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Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan

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Editors:
  1. Kimiko Tanaka

    1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA

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  2. Helaine Selin

    1. Faculty Associate and Science Librarian (retired), Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

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  • Contains contributions from experts in different aspects of Japanese society and culture
  • Sheds light on various topics such as politics, identity, race/ethnicity
  • Of great interest to a very broad audience interested in Japan

Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 13)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Beyond Numbers: Japan’s Demographic Challenges and Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Single and Unready to Mingle: The Insecure Lifeworlds of Never-Married Japanese

      • Akiko Yoshida, Caitlin Meagher
      Pages 3-22

    3. Infertility in Relation to Japanese Parental Norms

      • Chiaki Shirai
      Pages 23-33

    4. Patriarchy, Paternalism, and Politics of Reproductive Autonomy: Abortion Rights in Japan

      • Eiko Saeki
      Pages 35-51

    5. Aging, Health, and Gender

      • Yuka Minagawa
      Pages 53-65

    6. A Chronology of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

      • Takeshi Yoda
      Pages 67-75

    7. Hikikomori and Belonging in a Post-Pandemic Japan

      • Naomi Berman
      Pages 77-90

    8. Migrant Long-Term Care Workers in Japan

      • Rie Miyazaki
      Pages 91-107

    9. Will Guestworkers Save Japan? Findings from a Nationwide Municipal Survey

      • Yunchen Tian
      Pages 109-124

    10. Precarity and Hope Among Asylum Seekers in Japan

      • Taku Suzuki
      Pages 125-139

    11. Japanese Society in the Eyes of Immigrant Families: Focus on the Survival Strategy of Filipino Single Mothers

      • Sachi Takahata, Frieda Joy Angelica Olay Ruiz
      Pages 141-153

    12. Depopulation

      • Susanne Klien
      Pages 155-169

    13. Rural In-migrants: Embracing Sustainable Lifestyles for a Post-Growth Society?

      • Zollet Simona
      Pages 171-185

    14. A Regional Revitalization Strategy for Areas with Declining Populations: Transforming Tourists Into Local Actors

      • Hiroki Tahara
      Pages 187-195

    15. Creating a Sustainable Society Beyond Times of Crisis

      • Hiroki Nakamura
      Pages 197-209

    16. Displacement and Return: University Campuses as Ba and Ibasho for Sustainability Co-creation

      • Peter Hourdequin
      Pages 211-227

  3. The Myth of Homogeneity: Ignorance, Discrimination, and Prejudice Towards Soto

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Class Reproduction

      • Yoko Yamamoto
      Pages 231-247

    3. Buraku Issues: Changes and Challenges

      • Christopher Bondy
      Pages 249-259
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About this book

This book enables readers to understand contemporary Japanese society and culture. Since it is written by experts, it allows readers to start with any chapters they are interested in. It also provides a unique way to introduce Japanese society and culture to those who have never visited or studied Japanese society by reading articles from various authors on topics such as gender, family, economy, natural disasters and politics and laws. It provides scholars, academics, graduate students and the general educated audience all the information required to understand contemporary Japanese society and culture fully and see the diverse perspectives available.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA

    Kimiko Tanaka

  • Faculty Associate and Science Librarian (retired), Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

    Helaine Selin

About the editors

Kimiko Tanaka is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University. She has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University. She has published articles on Japan to discuss aging, families, culture, rural depopulation, and gender. Her recent publication, Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, provides the important insight that words such as “rural” and “depopulation” do not simply equate with negative outcomes for the elderly in rural Japan.
Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012.  She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and ten books in Springer’s Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, Happiness, Death, Aging and asecond edition of the Parenting book. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan

  • Editors: Kimiko Tanaka, Helaine Selin

  • Series Title: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36331-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36330-6Published: 29 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36333-7Due: 29 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36331-3Published: 28 July 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2145

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1761

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 470

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Cultural Studies, History of Japan

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