open access

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/83000

Japan’s Younger Generations Look for a New Way of Living

英語

rural areas

2021-09-01

University of California press

Current History

120(827)

240-245

As post-growth Japan hesitates between stagnation and change, its young people are opting out of traditional career paths and seeking lifestyles with greater personal freedom. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Japanese society to change in some respects, but institutional and corporate leaders remain reluctant to embrace reforms to work and gender norms and in many other areas. Yet social changes are occurring at the grassroots level, as younger Japanese pursuing new opportunities are moving from cities to the countryside, others head overseas in pursuit of more diverse careers and living arrangements, and some among the growing ranks of social introverts turn themselves into successful game developers and writers.

学術雑誌論文

Version of Record

0011-3530