Shutting out the sun : how Japan created its own lost generation

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The world's second wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zielenziger, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2007, ©2006.
Edition:1st Vintage Departures ed.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Japan
National characteristics, Japanese
Ethnopsychology > Japan.
Social values > Japan
Economic history
Ethnology
Ethnopsychology
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Social values
Ethnology > Japan.
Japanese national characteristics.
Social values > Japan.
Japan > Economic conditions
Japan > Politics and government
Japan > Social life and customs
Japan
Japan > Economic conditions.
Japan > Politics and government.
Japan > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An adjustment disorder.
  • "An arrow pointed deep inside me"
  • Broken apart from others.
  • A long tunnel.
  • Personalities "front" and "back"
  • Three Japanese "lunatics"
  • Careening off course.
  • The iron triangle of the psyche.
  • The cult of the brand.
  • Womb strike.
  • Marriage in a homosexual society.
  • Falling off the tightrope.
  • Rising sun and hermit kingdom.
  • A completely new value system.
  • Hikikomori nation and sheltering uncle.
  • "A single ray of light".
  • Dictionary of Japanese terms.

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