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In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically successful nation regarded as prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nat

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of the populati

First published in Japanese in 2006 by University of Tokyo Press as Henkasuru shakai no fubyaodao.

After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of th

The two leading sociologists of social stratification in Japan argue that most Japanese have attained a level of income in which they no longer suffer from pove