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Japanese Youth: An Interactive Dialogue: Towards Comparative Youth Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tuukka Toivonen ,
Noritoshi Furuichi ,
Mikito Terachi  and
Tomu Ogawa
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Goodman, Roger, Imoto, Yuki, and Toivonen, Tuukka (2012) A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs, Abingdon: Routledge (216 pages, $51.95 paperback, $155.00 cloth)

Furuichi, Noritoshi (2011) Zetsubō no Kuni no Kōfuku na Wakamono-tachi (The Happy Youth of a Desperate Country), Tokyo: Kodansha (304 pages, ¥1,890 cloth)

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 35 , August 2012 , e3
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Further readings

Pilling, David. 2012, “Youth of the ice age.” Financial Times, July 6th, 2012 (2012/08/13).Google Scholar
Terachi, Mikito. 2011., “Doryoku and Youth Cultures in Japan.” Forum21 - European Journal on Child and Youth Research, (7):114–121 (2012/08/13).Google Scholar
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Toivonen, Tuukka. 2012., “Japanese Youth after 3.11: From Underdogs to Change-makers?” Wochi Kochi Magazine (2012/08/13).Google Scholar
Toivonen, Tuukka. 2012., “Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan (review).” The Journal of Japanese Studies, 38(2): 493–498 (2012/08/13).Google Scholar
Toivonen, Tuukka and Furuichi, Noritoshi. 2011, “‘Quiet mavericks’ will be the ones to change society: Similarities and differences between ‘youth problems’ in Japan and the West (‘Shizuka na henkakusha’ ga shakai wo kaeru: Nihon to Oobei no ‘wakamono mondai’ no kyoutsuuten to sai).” Kotoba 8(2012 Summer Issue):16–21.Google Scholar