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Parental Well-Being In Japan
In Japan, like in other post-industrialized societies, expectations for “successful” parenting are much higher today than they were three or four decades ago (for the case of Germany, see Bertram and Spiess 2011).
Additionally, raising a child has become more costly in terms of both time and money. These elevated costs, together with the rising opportunity costs for women opting for motherhood, are strongly correlated with the fertility rate in Japan (Ogawa et al. 2009). As the country’s low fertility rate is considered a major demographic problem by policy makers, it is imperative that they better understand parents, particularly those with young children who require a high degree of care.
Contemporary Japan 27, No. 2
2015, de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 123 p.
ISSN (Online) 1869-2737
ISSN (Print) 1869-2729
Disasters, donations, and tax law changes: Disentangling effects on subjective well- being by exploiting a natural experiment
This paper sets out to investigate (i) whether an increase in donations in the aftermath of disasters can mitigate the negative effects on subjective well-being (SWB), and if so, (ii) whether policy measures such as tax law changes can amplify this mitigating effect by providing further incentives for donations.
To analyse these questions we use data on a recent, impactful disaster: the triple disaster that occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan (3-11).
Contemporary Japan 27, No. 1
Body Concepts: Changing Discourses of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society
2015, de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 123 p.
ISSN (Online) 1869-2737
ISSN (Print) 1869-2729
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Wie tickt Japan? Gregory Glanzmann & Maximilian Böger haben DIJ-Soziologin @barbGhawaii für die neueste Folge des Nippon Navigator-Podcast interviewt und Spannendes zur Work-Life-Balance, sozialen Bewegungen, Haustieren, Olympia & Expo erfahren https://open.spotify.com/episode/7rNTpQnWHmum1xl3pASByx?si=ddfb4a9f4edf42be
New book chapter "Korea & the League of Nations: from Versailles to the Manchurian Crisis, 1919–33" by DIJ historian @DolfNeuhaus https://www.dijtokyo.org/people/dolf-alexander-neuhaus/?affiliation=senior_research_fellows, just published in The League of Nations Experience: Overlapping Readings @degruyter_brill @dg_history https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111063973
DIJ researcher Nicole M. Mueller https://www.dijtokyo.org/people/nicole-muller/?affiliation=senior_research_fellows sheds new light on the reception of Thomas Mann's literary works by authors Mishima Yukio, Kita Morio & Tsuji Kunio in her contribution to the ed. volume "Thomas Mann produktiv rezipiert" (in German) https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/68825
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