Being Young in Super-Aging Japan

This book tackles a very important topic, that of Japanese youth in the precarious post-bubble era. The book has significant flaws that prevent it from reaching its potential as a primer on what is happening with Japan’s youth today, but a number of its chapters are interesting and insightful. Chapter 1, the introduction by Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan, states that ‘this book seeks to show that present day Japanese youth is remarkably different from other Japanese generations, and that this, in turn, implies the naissance of a Japanese society that is dissimilar from the Japanese post-war society as we knew it’ (p. 1). This generation is different, the authors tell us, because of both the ongoing effects of the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s and the remarkable aging of Japanese society in recent decades. The introduction offers some quite interesting arguments concerning the newness of the Heisei-born generation in the context of Japan. However, it does not discuss the book’s chapters, and so the reader gets no sense of how the introductory arguments unfold in the book as a whole

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