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1. Social Class in Contemporary Japan

   Structures, Sorting and Strategies

   Edited by Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge