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• 100 1_ |a Shirahase, Sawako.

• 245 10 |a Social inequality in Japan / |c Sawako Shirahase.

• 264 _1 |a New York : |b Routledge, |c 2014.

• 300 __ |a xix, 237 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm

• 336 __ |a text |2 rdacontent

• 337 __ |a unmediated |2 rdamedia

• 338 __ |a volume |2 rdacarrier

• 490 0_ |a Nissan institute/routledge japanese studies

• 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-218) and index.

• 520 __ |a "Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an "all-middle-class society". However since the 1990s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of dramatic demographic shifts as the population ages whilst fertility levels continue to fall. This book compares Japan with America, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Taiwan in order to determine whether inequality really is a social problem in Japan. With a focus on impact demographic shifts, Sawako Shirahase examines female labour market participation, income inequality among households with children, the state of the family, generational change, single person households and income distribution among the aged, and asks whether increasing inequality and is uniquely Japanese, or if it is a social problem common across all of the societies included in this study. Crucially, this book shows that Japan is distinctive not in terms of the degree of inequality in the society, but rather, in how acutely inequality is perceived. Further, the data shows that Japan differs from the other countries examined in terms of the gender gap in both the labour market and the family, and in inequality among single-person households - single men and women, including lifelong bachelors and spinsters - and also among single parent households, who pay a heavy price for having deviated from the expected pattern of life in Japan. Drawing on extensive empirical data, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Japanese culture and society, Japanese studies and social policy more generally"-- |c Provided by publisher.

• 650 _0 |a Equality |z Japan.

• 650 _0 |a Social stratification |z Japan.

• 650 _0 |a Population aging |z Japan.

• 650 _0 |a Older people |z Japan |x Social conditions.

• 650 _0 |a Social security |z Japan.

• 650 _0 |a Equality |v Case studies.

• 650 _7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography. |2 bisacsh

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• 650 _7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. |2 bisacsh

• 651 _0 |a Japan |x Social conditions |y 1989-

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