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1 online resource (299 pages) |
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies |
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Series editors' preface; Introduction: Making sense of happiness in "unhappy Japan"; PART I: Childhood and youth; 1 Tanoshikatta ne? Learning to be happy in Japanese preschools; 2 "Because I feel happy": Japanese first graders' views about schooling and well-being; 3 "Unhappy" and isolated youth in the midst of social change: Representations and subjective experiences of hikikomori in contemporary Japan |
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4 Anxious, stressed, and yet satisfied? The puzzle of subjective well-being among young adults in JapanPART II: Adulthood; 5 Being happy as a woman: The promise of happiness for middle-class housewives in Japan; 6 The well-being of single mothers in Japan; 7 Happiness at work? Marital happiness among Japanese housewives and employed wives; 8 The happiness of Japanese academics: Findings from job satisfaction surveys in 1992 and 2007; 9 Dilemma of fatherhood: The meaning of work, family, and happiness for salaried male Japanese workers; PART III: Old age |
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10 Happiness pursued, abandoned, dreamed of, and stumbled upon: An analysis of 20 Japanese lives over 20 years11 Senior volunteers and post-retirement well-being in Japan; 12 Well-being and decision-making towards the end of life: Living wills in Japan; 13 Fear of solitary death in Japan's aging society; 14 Reconsidering the four dimensions of happiness across the life course in Japan; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Happiness -- Japan
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Japanese -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Quality of life -- Japan
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Well-being -- Japan
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Happiness
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Japanese -- Social conditions
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Quality of life
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Social conditions
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Well-being
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Manzenreiter, Wolfram
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| ISBN |
9781351969178 |
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135196917X |
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