1st Edition
Housing and Social Transition in Japan
1. Introduction: does the housing system matter? - Yosuke Hirayama and Richard Ronald 2. Reshaping the housing system: home ownership as a catalyst for social transformation - Yosuke Hirayama 3. Transformations in housing construction and finance - Eiji Oizumi 4. Welfare regime theories and the Japanese housing system - Iwao Sato 5. Turning stock into cash flow: strategies using housing assets in an ageing society - Misa Izuhara 6. Housing, family and gender - Mieko Hinokidani 7. Social exclusion and homelessness - Masami Iwata 8. The Japanese home in transition: housing, consumption and modernisation - Richard Ronald 9. Situating the Japanese housing system – Richard Ronald and Yosuke Hirayama
Biography
Yosuke Hirayama is Professor of Housing and Urban Studies at Kobe University in Japan. He is the author of several books on housing and urban transformations in Japanese, and has also published widely in international housing and urban research journals. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Housing Research Network.
Richard Ronald is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and was formerly a Research Fellow at Kobe University in Japan. He is the former recipient of the Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
"A valuable addition to the housing literature." - Housing Studies
"...offers an engaging and fairly comprehensive overview of the context for housing in Japan." -- Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 37/No. 1/2015
