1st Edition

Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences

By Florian Coulmas Copyright 2007
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in values, institutions, social structures, economic activity, technology and culture, and posing many... Read more

1. Facts and Discourses  2. The Problem of Generations and the Structure of Society  3. Social Networks  4. The Lonely Child  5. Women and Men at Work  6. The Socialisation of Care  7. 'Mature' Customers  8. Longevity Risk and Pension Funds  9. Government of the Elderly, by the Elderly and for the Elderly  10. Limits to Ageing?  11. Foreigners Welcome?  12. Population Ageing and Social Change 

Biography

Florian Coulmas is Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan. He also holds the chair of Japanese studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has published widely on Japanese society and culture, and his publications, in English, German and Japanese, include several monographs, two textbooks, dictionaries and an encyclopaedia.

'a thoughtful and stimulating analysis of Japan's hyper-aging society; a serious book about a critically important subject.' - Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times