Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan write by Romit Dasgupta. This book was released on 2013. Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses the figure of the salaryman to explore masculinity in Japan by examining the salaryman as a gendered construct, and is one of the first to focus on the men within Japanese corporate culture through a gendered lens. Not only does this add to the emerging literature on masculinity in Japan, but given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, Romit Dasgupta's research offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture, and more generally at important changes in Japanese society in recent years.
The Salaryman
The Salaryman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Salaryman write by Michael Howard. This book was released on 2019-07-02. The Salaryman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A humorous memoir featuring more than 70 full-color manga illustrations from a Tokyo American who tried and failed to fit into Japanese office culture for almost a decade. The Salaryman is an immigrant's story from a land where there are few immigrants, with even fewer being crazy enough to do what the author did: become a real train-cramming, brow-wiping, late-night overtime-working, passed-out-drunk-on-the-train-ride-home salaryman. A working-man consumer's take on the U.S.-Japan culture gap, the book hums with authenticity, delivering deep middle-class insights between its illustrated punch lines.
Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan
Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan write by Tomoko Aoyama. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. While the primary focus is the "Japanese" family, it also examines the experience and practice of family beyond the borders of Japan, in such settings as Brazil, Australia, and Bali. The chapters explore key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Moreover, many of the issues addressed, such as the growing diversity of family, the increase in single-person households, and the implications of an ageing society, are applicable to other mature, late-industrial societies. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a number of fields including Japanese culture and society, sociology of family, gender studies, film and media studies, literature and cultural studies, and gerontology.
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happiness and the Good Life in Japan write by Wolfram Manzenreiter. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Happiness and the Good Life in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.
The Reproductive Bargain
The Reproductive Bargain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reproductive Bargain write by Heidi Gottfried. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Reproductive Bargain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labor insecurities behind Japan’s postwar employment system. This economic juggernaut’s decline cannot be understood without reference to the reproductive bargain. The historical terms of the reproductive bargain rests on the establishment of company citizenship in support of a standard employment relationship, privileging the male breadwinner in calculations for benefits in exchange for the salarymen working long hours in relatively secure jobs at the enterprise and relying on women’s unpaid reproductive labor in the family and increasingly on women’s waged work in nonstandard jobs. Such institutionalized relationships, formerly the engines of growth and stability, drag economic expansion and employment security. Gendering institutional analysis is a key to deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism.
