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1. Japan's Emerging Youth Policy

   Getting Young Adults Back to Work

   By Tuukka Toivonen

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious...

   To Be Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Sociology of Japanese Youth

   From Returnees to NEETs

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge