The population and society of Sado Island are declining at an alarmingrate. Much of this decline has been due to endemic outward migration of the island’syounger people to Japan’s large urban areas in search of opportunities fortertiary education and salaried employment. Even though...

In 2005 Japan's population began to shrink and, according to the government's own research institute, is scheduled to drop by approximately 30 percent within the next 50 years. Although this fall is considered to be a rather recent phenomenon, what is less well known is the fact that Japan's...

The population and society of Sado Island are declining at an alarming rate. Much of this decline has been due to endemic outward migration of the island's younger people to Japan's large urban areas in search of opportunities for tertiary education and salaried employment. Even though...

In 'Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era,' I argue that Japan's lifetime employment system is not collapsing under the various pressures of globalization and modernization, but that it is developing gradually and that it continues to work well for the salarymen that work within it....