1st Edition
Being Young in Super-Aging Japan Formative Events and Cultural Reactions
Introduction
1. Introduction: Studying the young generation in super-aging Japan, Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan
Part I Formative events
2. The political economy of the declining birthrate, Yuiko Imamura
3. From youth to non-adulthood in Japan: The role of education, Christian Galan
4. Youth sexuality under the spotlight in a super-aging society with too few children, Beverley Anne Yamamoto
5. Raising children and emergence of new fatherhood in a super-ageing society, Masako Ishii-Kuntz
6. Struggling men in emasculated life-courses: Non-regular employment among young men, Jun Imai
7. The Fukushima event, or the birth of a politicized generation, Anne Gonon
Part II Cultural and emotional reactions
8. "How Average am I?" Youths in a super-aged society, Florian Coulmas
9. The structure of happiness: Why young Japanese might be happy after all, Carola Hommerich and Tim Tiefenbach
10. Life on the small screen: Japan’s Digital Natives, Hidenori Masiko (Yuka Ando)
11. Dialect cosplay: Language use by the young generation, Patrick Heinrich
12. No family, no school: Young people in literature by young Japanese writers, Dan Fujiwara
13. Visualizing elders: Age and generational differences, Gunhild Borggreen
Conclusions
14. The resilient generation of the Heisei period, Christian Galan and Patrick Heinrich
Biography
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 Jaurès University, France and researcher at the CEJ-Inalco in Paris. His recent publications include (with E. Lozerand) La Famille japonaise moderne (1868-1926) (2011) and (with J.-M. Olivier) Histoire du & au Japon (2016).
