{"product_id":"sustainability-diversity-and-equality-key-challenges-for-japan-9783031363306","title":"Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1\tBeyond numbers: Japan’s demographic challenges and future\t1\tSingle and Unready to Mingle: The Insecure Lifeworlds of Never-Married Japanese\tAkiko Yoshida and Caitlin Meagher2\tInfertility in Relation to Japanese Prenatal Norms\tChiaki Shirai3\tPatriarchy, Paternalism, and Politics of Reproductive Autonomy: Abortion Rights in Japan\tEiko Saeki 4\tAging, Health, and Gender\tYuka Minagawa5\tA Chronology of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan\tTakeshi Yoda6\tHikikomori and Belonging in a Post-Pandemic Japan \tNaomi Berman 7\tMigrant Long-Term Care Workers in Japan\tRie Miyazaki 8\tWill Guestworkers Save Japan? Findings from a Nationwide Municipal Survey\tYunchen Tian 9\tPrecarity and Hope Among Asylum Seekers in Japan\tTaku Suzuki 10\tJapanese Society in the Eyes of Immigrant Families: Focus on the Survival Strategy of Filipino Single Mothers\tSachi Takahata and Frieda Joy Angelica Olay Ruiz11\tDepopulation\tSusanne Klien 12\tRural In-Migrants: Embracing Sustainable Lifestyles for a Post-Growth Society?\tSimona Zollet 13\tA Regional Revitalization Strategy for Areas with Declining Populations: Transforming Tourists Into Local Actors\tHiroki Tahara 14\tCreating a Sustainable Society Beyond Times of Crisis\tHiroki Nakamura 15\tDisplacement and Return: University Campuses as Ba and Ibasho for Sustainability Co-creation.\tPeter Hourdequin Part 2\tThe myth of homogeneity: Ignorance, discrimination, and prejudice towards soto\t16\tEducation, Cultural Capital, and Social Class Reproduction\tYoko Yamamoto 17\tBuraku Issues: Changes and Challenges\tChristopher Bondy 18\tToward “No Homeless” Public Spaces? Homeless Policy and a Crisis of Japanese Urban Society\tMahito Hayashi19\tKodomo Shokudo (Children’s Cafeterias): Changing Families and Social Inequality in Japan\tJunko Nanahoshi20\tReimagining Japan Through the Experiences of Mixed Japanese\tYuna Sato, Yu-Anis Aruga, and Sayaka Osanami Törngren 21\tRedefining Japaneseness: Blackness, Whiteness, and the Discordant Discourse of Diversity in Japan\tJohn G. Russell 22\tQuestioning Xenophobia in Japan: Racism, Decolonization, and Human Rights\tSara Park 23\tLife Stories, Historical Background, and Current Situations of the Ainu: The Story of Noto \tVince Okada Part 3\tGender inequality: Challenging gender roles and the gender binary\t24\tJapan’s Gender Inequality in Economics and Politics Since 1945 and the Policies That Engineered it\tEmma Dalton 25\tJapan’s Glass Ceiling: Contradictions in Gender Discourse and Institutional Support for Ie (Family)\tRobert C. Marshall 26\tSurnames and Gender in Japan\tHiromi Taniguchi and Gayle Kaufman 27\tFamily, Graves, and Gender in Japan\tKimiko Tanaka 28\tMale Caregivers in Japan: Between Care and Masculinity\tMao Saito 29\tLGBTQ Activism in Contemporary Japan: Prospects and Perspectives\tPatrick Carland 30\tNationalism and Queer Politics in Postwar Japan\tKazuyoshi Kawasaka \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516342034775,"sku":"9783031363306","price":104.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sustainability-diversity-and-equality-key-challenges-for-japan-9783031363306","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}