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

• TeilnehmendeR: Coulmas, Florian.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• 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...

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.