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1. A Sociology of Japanese Youth

   From Returnees to NEETs

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures 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. Drawing on detailed empirical...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
2. Global Japan

   The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Ceri Peach, Ayumi Takenaka, Paul White

   The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present international reality of increased global population movement. This has resulted in the establishment both of significant...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
3. Ageing in Asia

   Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Sarah Harper

   The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity and the culture of ageing - and examines how these issues are emerging in different regions of Asia, specifically, the former Soviet...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
4. The East Asian Welfare Model

   Welfare Orientalism and the State

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Huck-Ju Kwon, Gordon White

   For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for...

   Published August 5th 1998 by Routledge
5. Case Studies on Human Rights in Japan

   By Roger Goodman, Ian Neary

   Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of power to the detriment of individual and human rights....

   Published May 12th 1996 by Routledge
6. Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns.In Ideology and...

   Published April 1st 1992 by Routledge