LEADER 04623oam 2200721I 450 001 9910779449103321 005 20230126203034.0 010 $a1-136-20344-3 010 $a0-203-09383-6 010 $a1-283-89427-0 010 $a1-136-20345-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203093832 035 $a(CKB)2550000000710858 035 $a(EBL)1101383 035 $a(OCoLC)823389740 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000787077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12368127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10813116 035 $a(PQKB)10822486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1101383 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1101383 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10640486 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420677 035 $a(OCoLC)823169943 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135071 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000710858 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapan's emerging youth policy $egetting young adults back to work /$fTuukka Toivonen 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aNissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-69458-4 311 $a0-415-67053-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Japan's Emerging Youth Policy: Getting Young Adults Back to Work; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Appendices; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note to the Reader; Abbreviations; 1. Getting Young Adults Back to Work: a Post-industrial Dilemma in Japan; 2. The Emergence of Youth Independence Support Policy; 3. Neet: Creating a Target for Activation; 4. Crafting Policy: Sympathetic Bureaucrats in a Hostile Climate; 5. The Youth Independence Camp: Communities of Recognition?; 6. The Youth Support Station: Exploring the User 327 $a7. Beyond Symbolic Activation: Scaling Up the AlternativesAppendices; Notes; References; Index 330 $a"From the 1960s onwards, Japan's rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably low youth unemployment. However, since the 1990s the ease with which young people have historically moved from education to employment has ended, and unemployment is now a real and growing problem in contemporary Japan. Japan's Emerging Youth Policy examines how the state, experts, the media as well as youth workers, have responded to the troubling rise of youth joblessness in 21st century Japan. The answer that emerges from this analysis is as complex as it is fascinating, but comprises two essential elements. First, instead of institutional 'carrots and sticks' as seen in Europe, actors belonging to mainstream Japan have deployed controversial labels such as NEET ('Not in Education, Employment or Training') to steer inactive youth into low-wage jobs. However, a second approach has been crafted by entrepreneurial youth support leaders that builds on what the author refers to as 'communities of recognition'. As demonstrated at real sites of youth support, one such methodology consists of 'exploring the user' (i.e. the support-receiver) whereby complex disadvantages, family relationships and local employment contexts are skillfully negotiated. It is this second dimension in Japan's response to youth exclusion that suggests sustainable solutions to the employment dilemmas that virtually all post--industrial nations currently face but which none have yet seriously addressed. Based on extensive fieldwork draws on both sociological and policy science approaches, this book will be welcomed by students scholars and practitioners of Japanese, East Asian and comparative social policy, welfare, culture and society"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aNissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. 606 $aYouth$xEmployment$xGovernment policy$zJapan 606 $aYouth$xEmployment$zJapan 606 $aUnemployment$zJapan 606 $aYouth$zJapan$xSocial conditions 615 0$aYouth$xEmployment$xGovernment policy 615 0$aYouth$xEmployment 615 0$aUnemployment 615 0$aYouth$xSocial conditions. 676 $a331.3/470952 686 $aPOL019000$aPOL029000$aSOC008000$2bisacsh 700 $aToivonen$b Tuukka H. I$g(Tuukka Hannu Ilmari),$f1979-,$0959237 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779449103321 996 $aJapan's emerging youth policy$93720965 997 $aUNINA