Families in Japan
Changes, Continuities and Regional Variations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15100717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard M Martins (0000-0002-7992-7719, Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author), R Martin (0000-0003-1519-5966) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-169 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ssjj/jyn062 |
| OpenAlex | W1971527359 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
As Japan faces the grave problems posed by a declining population and aging society, an understanding of issues relating to the ‘family’ has never been more important. These include not simply an understanding of the make up of the family and historical and demographic changes but also of issues related to gender, including trends affecting marriage, divorce and fertility rates as well as provisions for women in the work place that might facilitate childcare. Furthermore, the changing younger generation in Japan as well as changing attitudes both of and towards the increasingly elderly population and provisions to be made for them need to be explored. Important works have rightly reflected this need in recent years. Sociologist Emiko Ochiai (1996) produced a benchmark book on the family in English, and there have since been important studies on the family and demographic change (e.g. Traphagan and Knight 2002; White 2002), the family and social policy (Goodman 2002), changing marriage and divorce (Fuess 2004), women in the work place and the elderly (Roberts 1996, 2002; Brown 2002; Wu 2004) and the younger generation, including the phenomena of NEETs, furiitaa, parasite singles and hikikomori (Mathews and White 2004)1. Some of these offer an important comparative perspective (Tsuya and Bumpass 2004; Ochiai and Molony 2008). This work is ongoing through necessity, especially in the light of the so called ‘2007 problem’—when large numbers of baby boomers came up for retirement. The issue of pensions, for example, is critical: premiums must either be raised or the amount of pension received reduced in the future. Furthermore, this now also needs to be placed in the context of the current global economic crisis.
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Knight · Pension · Political science · Population · Population ageing · Sociology · Demography · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |