Japan

Skid Row, Yokohama: Homelessness and Welfare in Japan

Following the bursting of the bubble economy in Japan at the beginning of the 1990s, demand for casual labor slumped. By the end of the decade, there were so few jobs left that most men had given up the struggle.
2014

Down and out in upscale Japan

A newly released government survey found that Tokyo's homeless population has reached an all-time low. But critics call the survey incomplete and misleading, and yet another effort to look past a population that is contending with growing economic disparity, Homelessness was a problem that was largely unknown until the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s and unemployment rose sharply.
2014

Old age far from gentle for Japan's graying homeless

Homelessness in Japan is a decades-old issue, yet it has a worrying new twist.
2013

Nursing for the older people in Japan

The Japanese government is switching its focus in care for the aged from facilities to local communities.
2013

Survival Strategies of Homeless Men: Home, Scavenging, Work and Welfare in Tokyo, Japan

This research is about older men and homelessness in Japan. It is a story of their survival and neglect. It describes their homes, both past and current, their lives, and their endurance on the street. It is about making a living when you do not have a home.
2012

The care of older people in Japan: myths and realities of family ‘care’

A history of aged care in Japan. This survey of care for older people in Japan has revealed some of its complexities, deeply rooted in the legacy of paternalistic and familistic nationalism, traditional values of filial piety, and the persistent stigma associated with institutionalisation and public welfare.
2011

Gender roles and social policy in an ageing society: the case of Japan

Throughout history, the Japanese state has been mainly focused on its industrial and economic growth, leaving little room for the development of social policies. Consequently, the Japanese welfare system has relied on the informal care families provide to their members, especially the elderly.
2010

Working on the Margins Japan's Precariat and Working Poor

In recent years the concept of an 'homogenous middle class society' is being contested in the sociological discourse on Japan. What can be identified as a new phenomenon are the highly educated working poor. They experience an immense disparity between their expected high social status attained through education and their actual precarious working conditions.
2009

Intergenerational Coresidence of Older Adults in Japan: Conditions for Cultural Plasticity

This study investigated individual-level conditions and prefecture-level contextual factors that enable and/or restrict intergenerational coresidence arrangements between older parents and adult children. Whereas the traditional pattern of coresidence was primarily a value-driven arrangement, nontraditional coresidence was both a value-driven and a need-driven arrangement for older parents with l
2007

A Comparative Study of Homelessness in the United Kingdom and Japan

This article describes homelessness in Japan, based on a survey of rough sleepers conducted in Nagoya with some additional demographic data collected in Osaka, and compares it to the situation in the United Kingdom, as documented in a survey of rough sleepers throughout England.
2007
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