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Based on data collected on 1995 by the Japanese Sociological Association, this book investigates four major classes - new, old middle, capitalist and working -

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-ma

Originally published in 1983, this book analyses the crisis that began in Japan with the 'oil shock' of 1973. Assembling a large body of statistical data, deriv

The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of 'Japan as an educa

First Published in 1994. The focus of this study is class and stratification in Japan. There are a few papers on social stratification in Japan that are written