Yosuke Hirayama
Biographic Data
| ID | 279882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yosuke Hirayama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yosuke |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirayama |
| SIGNATURE | HIRAYAMA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1538-9103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Late home ownership and social re-stratification
Home ownership was a significant element of social change in the post-war, mature, capitalist economies such as the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. This growth of individual home ownership occurred, however, within a particular demographic, economic, social and political context. This distinctive set of conditions include the atomized, nuclear family; suburbanization; high growth; the conventional mortgage market and a young, working pop…
The financialisation of the social project: Embedded liberalism, neoliberalism and home ownership
This paper argues that the relentless logic of commodification has served to undermine a key element of the social cement of contemporary capitalism: home ownership. In addressing this issue, the paper explores the development of the post war ‘social project’ of home ownership with particular reference to mature home ownership societies such as the USA, Japan, Britain and Australia. The paper then outlines the new fault lines and fractures which …
Neoliberal policy and the housing safety net in Japan
The role of home ownership in Japan’s aged society
Housing Pathway Divergence in Japan's Insecure Economy
The housing system in post-war Japan has consistently driven the growth of the owner-occupied housing sector, where many people have followed a conventional life-course in terms of ascending the housing ladder towards homeownership. Since the 1990s, however, a more insecure economy combined with the reorientation of housing and social policies has led to divergence in people's housing pathways. The conservative nature of public policy has largely…
Home Alone: The Individualization of Young, Urban Japanese Singles
Social life in Japan has been historically orientated towards hierarchical networks of social integration starting in the family home and extending to the neighborhood, company, and nation. In the postwar period, households and life courses were largely fixed, mediated by company society, a standard breadwinner family model and an ascent up an owner-occupied housing ladder. The bursting of the economic bubble two decades ago, and the subsequent '…
The Uneven Impact of Neoliberalism on Housing Opportunities
Neoliberalism has dominated policy discourse and policy formulation for at least two decades and has been particularly influential in reshaping housing systems and housing opportunities. The timing, pace and impact of these policy developments have, however, varied between and within societies. This article explores the experiences of Japan and the UK as a way of illustrating that while there has been a shared discourse of neoliberalism, there ha…
Women and Housing Assets in the Context of Japan's Home-owning Democracy
Despite the fact that women's rights have been increasingly defined as equal to men's in law and policy, in post-Second World War Japan women continue to be at a disadvantage in many aspects of social and economic life. Drawing from a survey of 2,205 Japanese women, this article focuses in particular on women's home ownership as a new catalyst behind increasing social stratification in Japan. The women's experiences are closely linked to Japan's …
Housing Commodities, Context and Meaning: Transformations in Japan's Urban Condominium Sector
Japan's condominium sector expanded rapidly along with post-war urbanisation and high-speed economic growth. However, the bursting of the bubble economy in the 1990s undermined land and housing markets. Capital losses on condominiums have been disproportionate, especially in cases of older, smaller or non-centrally located condominiums. This analysis incorporates socio-cultural elements in explaining emerging patterns of fragmentation among homeo…
Running hot and cold in the urban home-ownership market: The experience of Japan?s major cities
Home Ownership and Economic Change in Japan
The housing system in post-war Japan formed a structure to link economic growth, an increase in middle-class families and the expansion of home ownership. However, since the 1980s, the stability of home ownership has weakened. The rise and fall of the bubble economy, an increasingly volatile economy and an amplified fragmentation of society undermined the traditional conditions of the post-war housing system. Over the past decade, a prolonged rec…
Collapse and Reconstruction: Housing Recovery Policy in Kobe after the Hanshin Great Earthquake
This paper examines the housing recovery policy carried out in Kobe, a disaster city heavily damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 17 January 1995. The housing problems in the earthquake-hit city resulted not only from direct damage by the disaster. Urban restructuring, underway beforehand, had been generating socio-economic polarisation and geographical disparity in housing conditions. The earthquake caused especially heavy damage on the in…
Housing conditions and affordability in Japan
Housing in Japan is of interest as an example of how improvements in living conditions have not kept pace with national economic growth. This paper describes basic housing conditions in Japan and offers an assessment of them against the background of progress over time and within the context of housing conditions in several Western countries. Housing affordability is a growing problem, particularly for population groups that are marginal to the h…
The Impact of the Minkatsu Policy on Japanese Housing and Land Use
During the period 1983-87, the ' minkatsu' policy of the former Nakasone Government caused many serious problems. Urban land became a target of direct speculation by real estate companies, banks, and big enterprises. This phenomenon began in Tokyo and has now spread to all the nation's large cities. A new housing crisis has resulted, and the right to housing is widely threatened. We discuss, in this paper, the relationship of minkatsu, to the der…
The financialisation of the social project: Embedded liberalism, neoliberalism and home ownership
This paper argues that the relentless logic of commodification has served to undermine a key element of the social cement of contemporary capitalism: home ownership. In addressing this issue, the paper explores the development of the post war ‘social project’ of home ownership with particular reference to mature home ownership societies such as the USA, Japan, Britain and Australia. The paper then outlines the new fault lines and fractures which …
Late home ownership and social re-stratification
Home ownership was a significant element of social change in the post-war, mature, capitalist economies such as the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. This growth of individual home ownership occurred, however, within a particular demographic, economic, social and political context. This distinctive set of conditions include the atomized, nuclear family; suburbanization; high growth; the conventional mortgage market and a young, working pop…
The Uneven Impact of Neoliberalism on Housing Opportunities
Neoliberalism has dominated policy discourse and policy formulation for at least two decades and has been particularly influential in reshaping housing systems and housing opportunities. The timing, pace and impact of these policy developments have, however, varied between and within societies. This article explores the experiences of Japan and the UK as a way of illustrating that while there has been a shared discourse of neoliberalism, there ha…
The role of home ownership in Japan’s aged society
The Impact of the Minkatsu Policy on Japanese Housing and Land Use
During the period 1983-87, the ' minkatsu' policy of the former Nakasone Government caused many serious problems. Urban land became a target of direct speculation by real estate companies, banks, and big enterprises. This phenomenon began in Tokyo and has now spread to all the nation's large cities. A new housing crisis has resulted, and the right to housing is widely threatened. We discuss, in this paper, the relationship of minkatsu, to the der…
Home Alone: The Individualization of Young, Urban Japanese Singles
Social life in Japan has been historically orientated towards hierarchical networks of social integration starting in the family home and extending to the neighborhood, company, and nation. In the postwar period, households and life courses were largely fixed, mediated by company society, a standard breadwinner family model and an ascent up an owner-occupied housing ladder. The bursting of the economic bubble two decades ago, and the subsequent '…
Women and Housing Assets in the Context of Japan's Home-owning Democracy
Despite the fact that women's rights have been increasingly defined as equal to men's in law and policy, in post-Second World War Japan women continue to be at a disadvantage in many aspects of social and economic life. Drawing from a survey of 2,205 Japanese women, this article focuses in particular on women's home ownership as a new catalyst behind increasing social stratification in Japan. The women's experiences are closely linked to Japan's …
Collapse and Reconstruction: Housing Recovery Policy in Kobe after the Hanshin Great Earthquake
This paper examines the housing recovery policy carried out in Kobe, a disaster city heavily damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 17 January 1995. The housing problems in the earthquake-hit city resulted not only from direct damage by the disaster. Urban restructuring, underway beforehand, had been generating socio-economic polarisation and geographical disparity in housing conditions. The earthquake caused especially heavy damage on the in…
Running hot and cold in the urban home-ownership market: The experience of Japan?s major cities
Housing Commodities, Context and Meaning: Transformations in Japan's Urban Condominium Sector
Japan's condominium sector expanded rapidly along with post-war urbanisation and high-speed economic growth. However, the bursting of the bubble economy in the 1990s undermined land and housing markets. Capital losses on condominiums have been disproportionate, especially in cases of older, smaller or non-centrally located condominiums. This analysis incorporates socio-cultural elements in explaining emerging patterns of fragmentation among homeo…
Housing Pathway Divergence in Japan's Insecure Economy
The housing system in post-war Japan has consistently driven the growth of the owner-occupied housing sector, where many people have followed a conventional life-course in terms of ascending the housing ladder towards homeownership. Since the 1990s, however, a more insecure economy combined with the reorientation of housing and social policies has led to divergence in people's housing pathways. The conservative nature of public policy has largely…
Home Ownership and Economic Change in Japan
The housing system in post-war Japan formed a structure to link economic growth, an increase in middle-class families and the expansion of home ownership. However, since the 1980s, the stability of home ownership has weakened. The rise and fall of the bubble economy, an increasingly volatile economy and an amplified fragmentation of society undermined the traditional conditions of the post-war housing system. Over the past decade, a prolonged rec…
Housing conditions and affordability in Japan
Housing in Japan is of interest as an example of how improvements in living conditions have not kept pace with national economic growth. This paper describes basic housing conditions in Japan and offers an assessment of them against the background of progress over time and within the context of housing conditions in several Western countries. Housing affordability is a growing problem, particularly for population groups that are marginal to the h…
The Impact of the Minkatsu Policy on Japanese Housing and Land Use
During the period 1983-87, the ' minkatsu' policy of the former Nakasone Government caused many serious problems. Urban land became a target of direct speculation by real estate companies, banks, and big enterprises. This phenomenon began in Tokyo and has now spread to all the nation's large cities. A new housing crisis has resulted, and the right to housing is widely threatened. We discuss, in this paper, the relationship of minkatsu, to the der…
Housing conditions and affordability in Japan
Housing in Japan is of interest as an example of how improvements in living conditions have not kept pace with national economic growth. This paper describes basic housing conditions in Japan and offers an assessment of them against the background of progress over time and within the context of housing conditions in several Western countries. Housing affordability is a growing problem, particularly for population groups that are marginal to the h…
Collapse and Reconstruction: Housing Recovery Policy in Kobe after the Hanshin Great Earthquake
This paper examines the housing recovery policy carried out in Kobe, a disaster city heavily damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 17 January 1995. The housing problems in the earthquake-hit city resulted not only from direct damage by the disaster. Urban restructuring, underway beforehand, had been generating socio-economic polarisation and geographical disparity in housing conditions. The earthquake caused especially heavy damage on the in…
Home Ownership and Economic Change in Japan
The housing system in post-war Japan formed a structure to link economic growth, an increase in middle-class families and the expansion of home ownership. However, since the 1980s, the stability of home ownership has weakened. The rise and fall of the bubble economy, an increasingly volatile economy and an amplified fragmentation of society undermined the traditional conditions of the post-war housing system. Over the past decade, a prolonged rec…
Running hot and cold in the urban home-ownership market: The experience of Japan?s major cities
Housing Commodities, Context and Meaning: Transformations in Japan's Urban Condominium Sector
Japan's condominium sector expanded rapidly along with post-war urbanisation and high-speed economic growth. However, the bursting of the bubble economy in the 1990s undermined land and housing markets. Capital losses on condominiums have been disproportionate, especially in cases of older, smaller or non-centrally located condominiums. This analysis incorporates socio-cultural elements in explaining emerging patterns of fragmentation among homeo…
Women and Housing Assets in the Context of Japan's Home-owning Democracy
Despite the fact that women's rights have been increasingly defined as equal to men's in law and policy, in post-Second World War Japan women continue to be at a disadvantage in many aspects of social and economic life. Drawing from a survey of 2,205 Japanese women, this article focuses in particular on women's home ownership as a new catalyst behind increasing social stratification in Japan. The women's experiences are closely linked to Japan's …
Home Alone: The Individualization of Young, Urban Japanese Singles
Social life in Japan has been historically orientated towards hierarchical networks of social integration starting in the family home and extending to the neighborhood, company, and nation. In the postwar period, households and life courses were largely fixed, mediated by company society, a standard breadwinner family model and an ascent up an owner-occupied housing ladder. The bursting of the economic bubble two decades ago, and the subsequent '…
The Uneven Impact of Neoliberalism on Housing Opportunities
Neoliberalism has dominated policy discourse and policy formulation for at least two decades and has been particularly influential in reshaping housing systems and housing opportunities. The timing, pace and impact of these policy developments have, however, varied between and within societies. This article explores the experiences of Japan and the UK as a way of illustrating that while there has been a shared discourse of neoliberalism, there ha…
Neoliberal policy and the housing safety net in Japan
The role of home ownership in Japan’s aged society
Housing Pathway Divergence in Japan's Insecure Economy
The housing system in post-war Japan has consistently driven the growth of the owner-occupied housing sector, where many people have followed a conventional life-course in terms of ascending the housing ladder towards homeownership. Since the 1990s, however, a more insecure economy combined with the reorientation of housing and social policies has led to divergence in people's housing pathways. The conservative nature of public policy has largely…
The financialisation of the social project: Embedded liberalism, neoliberalism and home ownership
This paper argues that the relentless logic of commodification has served to undermine a key element of the social cement of contemporary capitalism: home ownership. In addressing this issue, the paper explores the development of the post war ‘social project’ of home ownership with particular reference to mature home ownership societies such as the USA, Japan, Britain and Australia. The paper then outlines the new fault lines and fractures which …
Late home ownership and social re-stratification
Home ownership was a significant element of social change in the post-war, mature, capitalist economies such as the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. This growth of individual home ownership occurred, however, within a particular demographic, economic, social and political context. This distinctive set of conditions include the atomized, nuclear family; suburbanization; high growth; the conventional mortgage market and a young, working pop…
Economics (14 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 works) · Market economy (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works)