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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / F. Coulmas , H. Conrad , A. Schad and G. Vogt -- Introduction / F. Coulmas , H. Conrad , A. Schad and G. Vogt -- Chapter One. Japan’s population growth during the past 100 years / Makoto Atoh -- Chapter Two. Fertility and mortality / Hans Dieter Ölschleger -- Chapter Three. Statistical foundations of population projections / Ryuichi Kaneko -- Chapter Four. Regional demographics / Ralph Lützeler -- Chapter Five. Demographic comparisons with other countries with the emphasis on the more developed regions / Shigemi Kono -- Chapter Six. History of demography in Japan / Matthias Koch -- Introduction / F. Coulmas , H. Conrad , A. Schad and G. Vogt -- Chapter Seven. Social ageing and the sociology of ageing / Sepp Linhart -- Chapter Eight. Changing social concepts of age: Towards the active senior citizen / Takeo Ogaw -- Chapter Nine. Ageing society and the transformation of work in the post-fordist economy / Chikako Usui -- Chapter Ten. Engaging the generations: Age-integrated facilities / Leng Leng Thang -- Chapter Eleven. Social change and caregiving of the elderly / Susan Orpett Long -- Chapter Twelve. Income inequality in the ageing society / Sawako Shirahase -- Chapter Thirteen. Changes in family structure / Toshiko Himeoka -- Chapter Fourteen. Changing family life cycle and partnership transition—gender roles and marriage patterns / James M. Raymo and Miho Iwasawa -- Chapter Fifteen. Child care in a low birth society / Akiko S. Oishi -- Chapter Sixteen. Transcultural Society / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and David Blake Willis -- Introduction / F. Coulmas , H. Conrad , A. Schad and G. Vogt -- Chapter Seventeen. Traditional concepts and images of old age in Japan / Susanne Formanek -- Chapter Eighteen. Notions of life, old age and death in ageing Japan / Mayumi Sekizawa -- Chapter Nineteen. Population decline, municipal amalgamation, and the politics of folk performance preservation in northeast Japan / Christopher S. Thompson -- Chapter Twenty. Ancestors, burial rites, and rural depopulation in Japan / John W. Traphagan -- Chapter Twenty-One. Religion in Post-World War II Japan and social ageing / Kenji Ishii -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Coming of age: The courts and equality rights in Japan’s ageing society / Craig Martin -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Coming to terms with age: Some linguistic consequences of population ageing / Peter Backhaus -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Population ageing and language change / Fumio Inoue -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Age and ageing in contemporary japanese literature / Lisette Gebhardt -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Media use in the ageing society / Nobuko Shiraishi -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Gendered age / Sumiko Iwao -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Education in the aged society: The demographic challenge to japanese education / Roger Goodman -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. Ageing Japan and the transmission of traditional skills and know-how / Takanori Shintani -- Chapter Thirty. Age-specific technology: A demographic challenge for design / Fumihiko Satofuka -- Chapter Thirty-One. Ageing tourists, ageing destinations: Tourism and demographic change in Japan / Carolin Funck.