Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan

Part 1. Beyond Numbers: Japan's Demographic Challenges and Future.- 1. Single and Unready to Mingle: The Insecure Lifeworlds of Never-Married Japanese (Akiko Yoshida and Caitlin Meagher).- 2. Infertility in Relation to Japanese Prenatal Norms (Chiaki Shirai).- 3. Patriarchy, Paternalism, and Politics of Reproductive Autonomy: Abortion Rights in Japan (Eiko Saeki).- 4. Aging, Health, and Gender (Yuka Minagawa).- 5. A Chronology of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (Takeshi Yoda).- 6. Hikikomori and Belonging in a Post-Pandemic Japan (Naomi Berman).- 7. Migrant Long-Term Care Workers in Japan (Rie Miyazaki).- 8. Will Guestworkers Save Japan? Findings from a Nationwide Municipal Survey (Yunchen Tian).- 9. Precarity and Hope Among Asylum Seekers in Japan (Taku Suzuki).- 10. Japanese Society in the Eyes of Immigrant Families: Focus on the Survival Strategy of Filipino Single Mothers (Sachi Takahata and Frieda Joy Angelica Olay Ruiz).- 11. Depopulation (Susanne Klien).- 12. Rural In-Migrants: Embracing Sustainable Lifestyles for a Post-Growth Society? (Simona Zollet).- 13. A Regional Revitalization Strategy for Areas with Declining Populations: Transforming Tourists Into Local Actors (Hiroki Tahara).- 14. Creating a Sustainable Society Beyond Times of Crisis (Hiroki Nakamura).- 15. Displacement and Return: University Campuses as Ba and Ibasho for Sustainability Co-creation. (Peter Hourdequin).- Part 2. The Myth of Homogeneity: Ignorance, Discrimination, and Prejudice Towards Soto.- 16. Education, Cultural Capital, and Social Class Reproduction (Yoko Yamamoto).- 17. Buraku Issues: Changes and Challenges (Christopher Bondy).- 18. Toward "No Homeless" Public Spaces? Homeless Policy and a Crisis of Japanese Urban Society (Mahito Hayashi).- 19. Kodomo Shokudo (Children's Cafeterias): Changing Families and Social Inequality in Japan (Junko Nanahoshi).- 20. Reimagining Japan Through the Experiences of Mixed Japanese (Yuna Sato, Yu-Anis Aruga, and Sayaka Osanami Törngren).- 21.

Kimiko Tanaka is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University. She has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University. She has published articles on Japan to discuss aging, families, culture, rural depopulation, and gender. Her recent publication, Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, provides the important insight that words such as "rural" and "depopulation" do not simply equate with negative outcomes for the elderly in rural Japan.Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012.  She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and ten books in Springer's Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, Happiness, Death, Aging and asecond edition of the Parenting book.