Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series) (Volume 0)

Mathews/White

ISBN 10: 0415384915 / ISBN 13: 9780415384919

Published by Routledge, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series) (Volume 0)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415384915
• ISBN 13: 9780415384919
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book argues that the generation gap in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order; rather it signifies something much more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan.

About the Author

Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001).
Bruce White is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Doshisha University,
Kyoto, Japan.