Imploding populations in Japan and Germany : a comparison

Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler -- Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono -- Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz -- Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization of reproduction / Wolfgang Streeck -- Economic globalization and changes in family formation as the cause of very low fertility in Japan / Shigesato Takahashi -- Income inequality in a rapidly ageing society, Japan : focusing on transformations in the structure of households with elderly / Sawako Shirahase -- Ageing societies : present challenges and models for the future / Gertrud M. Backes -- Japanese family policies in comparative perspective / Makoto Atoh -- Promoting gender equality, birthrates or human capital? Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Tuukka Toivonen -- Child care and work-life balance in low fertility Japan / Barbara G. Holthus -- Actors of social policy making in Japan : a look at the individual level / Axel Klein -- Growing up in a shrinking city : the impact of residential segregation on the qualitative reproduction of urban society / Klaus Peter Strohmeier -- Business implications of demographic change in Japan : chances and challenges for human resource and marketing management / Florian Kohlbacher -- -