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Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review

Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyu¯ shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review ANNETTE SCHAD-SEIFERT 1. Introduction Post-war Japan until the 1990s has often been characterized as a “classless” society, with only minor differences between rich and poor. However, since the late 1990s the issue of the dissolution of Japan’s mass middle class has featured both in the media and academic debates and numerous authors  such as Kariya Takehiko (2001), Sato Toshiki (2000, 2002), Tachibanaki Toshiaki (1998, 2004, 2005), Yamada Masa- hiro (2004, 2006) and Shirahase Sawako (2005, 2006)  have dealt with the growing social divide in Japanese society and the trend toward greater economic inequality. One of the researchers who have contributed most actively to the dis- course on Japan as a society of growing social gaps is sociologist and market analyst Miura Atsushi, who is also the founder and chairman of the Culture Studies Institute for Market Research. In 2004, one year after family sociologist Yamada Masahiro coined the word kakusa shakai [society of widening gaps], Miura began publishing a conspicuous bulk of literature on this growing social divide (Miura 2005a, 2005b, 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b; Miura and Ueno 2007). In these books Miura de- scribes http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review

Annette, Schad-Seifert
Contemporary Japan , Volume 22 (1-2): 16 – Jan 1, 2010
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Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review

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Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyu¯ shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review ANNETTE SCHAD-SEIFERT 1. Introduction Post-war Japan until the 1990s has often been characterized as a “classless” society, with only minor differences between rich and poor. However, since the late 1990s the issue of the dissolution of Japan’s mass middle class has featured both in the media and academic debates and numerous authors  such as Kariya Takehiko (2001), Sato...
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Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyu¯ shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review ANNETTE SCHAD-SEIFERT 1. Introduction Post-war Japan until the 1990s has often been characterized as a “classless” society, with only minor differences between rich and poor. However, since the late 1990s the issue of the dissolution of Japan’s mass middle class has featured both in the media and academic debates and numerous authors  such as Kariya Takehiko (2001), Sato Toshiki (2000, 2002), Tachibanaki Toshiaki (1998, 2004, 2005), Yamada Masa- hiro (2004, 2006) and Shirahase Sawako (2005, 2006)  have dealt with the growing social divide in Japanese society and the trend toward greater economic inequality. One of the researchers who have contributed most actively to the dis- course on Japan as a society of growing social gaps is sociologist and market analyst Miura Atsushi, who is also the founder and chairman of the Culture Studies Institute for Market Research. In 2004, one year after family sociologist Yamada Masahiro coined the word kakusa shakai [society of widening gaps], Miura began publishing a conspicuous bulk of literature on this growing social divide (Miura 2005a, 2005b, 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b; Miura and Ueno 2007). In these books Miura de- scribes

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