Precarious Japan /
Anne Allison
- Durham: Duke University Press, c2013
- x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23cm
Introduction : pain of life From lifelong to liquid Japan Ordinary refugeeism : poverty, precarity, youth Home and hope The social body? : in life and death Spinning the edges In the mud
Precarious Japan reflects on how the Japanese are experiencing insecurity in the contemporary era of nagging recession, irregular labor, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking overall population with more and more elderly
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Economic history Japan Economic conditions 1989- SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural HISTORY Asia Japan