The demographic challenge : : a handbook about Japan / / edited by Florian Coulmas ... [et al.].

• TeilnehmendeR: Coulmas, Florian.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2008
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1219 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Chapter One. Japan’s population growth during the past 100 years /; Chapter Two. Fertility and mortality /; Chapter Three. Statistical foundations of population projections /; Chapter Four. Regional demographics /; Chapter Five. Demographic comparisons with other countries with the emphasis on the more developed regions /; Chapter Six. History of demography in Japan /; Chapter Seven. Social ageing and the sociology of ageing /; Chapter Eight. Changing social concepts of age: Towards the active senior citizen /; Chapter Nine. Ageing society and the transformation of work in the post-fordist economy /; Chapter Ten. Engaging the generations: Age-integrated facilities /; Chapter Eleven. Social change and caregiving of the elderly /; Chapter Twelve. Income inequality in the ageing society /; Chapter Thirteen. Changes in family structure /; Chapter Fourteen. Changing family life cycle and partnership transition—gender roles and marriage patterns /; Chapter Fifteen. Child care in a low birth society /; Chapter Sixteen. Transcultural Society /; Chapter Seventeen. Traditional concepts and images of old age in Japan /; Chapter Eighteen. Notions of life, old age and death in ageing Japan /; Chapter Nineteen. Population decline, municipal amalgamation, and the politics of folk performance preservation in northeast Japan /; Chapter Twenty. Ancestors, burial rites, and rural depopulation in Japan /; Chapter Twenty-One. Religion in Post-World War II Japan and social ageing /; Chapter Twenty-Two. Coming of age: The courts and equality rights in Japan’s ageing society /; Chapter Twenty-Three. Coming to terms with age: Some linguistic consequences of population ageing /; Chapter Twenty-Four. Population ageing and language change /; Chapter Twenty-Five. Age and ageing in contemporary japanese literature /; Chapter Twenty-Six. Media use in the ageing society /; Chapter Twenty-Seven. Gendered age /; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Education in the aged society: The demographic challenge to japanese education /; Chapter Twenty-Nine. Ageing Japan and the transmission of traditional skills and know-how /; Chapter Thirty. Age-specific technology: A demographic challenge for design /; Chapter Thirty-One. Ageing tourists, ageing destinations: Tourism and demographic change in Japan /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282396889; 9786612396885; 9047428110
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Florian Coulmas ... [et al.].

This Handbook explores the challenges demographic change poses to today’s Japan. The first part provides the fundamental data involved, and the subsequent two parts address the social and cultural aspects of Japan’s demographic change. Parts four and five are dedicated to the political, economic and social security aspects of demographic change. The Handbook brings together a group of international scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds to take issue with the world’s fastest demographic transition. Topics include the dynamics of gender roles, images of age, policy formation, labour market structures, pension system, living arrangements, ethical values, and many more. Against the background of Japan’s demographic change, the latest developments in these fields are being introduced, and whenever appropriate set into a context of historical and/or international comparison. This Handbook is the first comprehensive publication in English on Japan’s demographic change. Contributors include: Makoto Atoh, Hans Dieter Ölschleger, Ryuichi Kaneko, Ralph Lützeler, Shigemi Kono, Matthias Koch, Sepp Linhart, Takeo Ogawa, Chikako Usui, Leng Leng Thang, Susan (Orpett) Long, Sawako Shirahase, Toshiko Himeoka, James Raymo, Miho Iwasawa, Akiko S Oishi, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, David Blake Willis, Susanne Formanek, Mayumi Sekizawa, Christopher S Thompson, John W Traphagan, Kenji Ishii, Craig Martin, Peter Backhaus, Fumio Inoue, Lisette Gebhardt, Nobuko Shiraishi, Sumiko Iwao, Roger Goodman, Takanori Shintani, Fumihiko Satofuka, Carolin Funck, John Clammer, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Leonard Schoppa, John C Campbell, Paul Talcott, David Potter, Robert Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka, Akihiro Ogawa, Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg, Liv Coleman, Glenda S Roberts, Thomas Feldhoff, Patricia Maclachlan, Naohiro Ogawa, Akihiro Kawase, Seiritsu Ogura, Volker Elis, Charles Yuji Horioka, Fumio Ohtake, Hisashi Fukawa, Naohiro Yashiro, Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Karen A Shire, Harald Conrad, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Andreas Moerke, Ito Peng, Naoki Ikegami, Makoto Arai, Tetsuo Fukawa, Takashi Oshio, Noriyuki Takayama, and Tomoyuki Kubo.