Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters," part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students, emerged into the public arena as a social problem.
This book, drawing on six years of ethnographic research, takes the lives of male freeters as a lens to examine contemporary ideas and experiences of adult masculinities. It queries how notions of adulthood and...
Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxatio...
Explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. With ethnographic analysis focused on how intimacy is imagined, enacted, and discussed, this volume offers rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms.
Explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply...
