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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2014

eBook ISBN

9780824838706

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

21st Century History

Index

Social Sciences

360

INDEX 

Sachi 

Fujii), 

5,

19,

54n3; 

breaking 

through 

employment 

boundaries, 

96–97, 

100; 

of

the

bubble 

generation, 

81,

83–85, 

99–100; 

clerical 

positions 

and

clerical-track 

jobs 

(

ippanshoku

),

5–6, 

85,

86–90, 

170, 

341; 

employment 

status 

(

See

working 

women); 

female 

corporate 

work-

ers, 

13,

19,

83,

101; 

gender 

discrimination 

and, 

85,

167; 

issue 

of

choice 

in

employment, 

100–101; 

macrostructural 

forces 

impacting, 

100–101; 

marriage 

age, 

164–165; 

marrying 

later, 

167–168; 

quitting 

jobs 

for

child 

rearing, 

21n3. 

See

also

career 

women; 

white-collar 

workers

workplace: 

changes 

in,

2,

30,

42;

female-female 

disparity 

(

jojo

kakusa

),

6,

102, 

341; 

formal 

vs.

informal 

rules, 

100; 

work 

conditions, 

5–8, 

27;

work 

culture, 

135

work 

stress, 

36,

94,

96–97, 

102, 

173

World 

Health 

Organization 

(WHO), 

137

World 

War

II,

122, 

281, 

282, 

323

worldwide 

recession 

in

financial 

markets, 

2.

See

also

economic 

recession; 

“Lehman 

Shock”

Wöss, 

Fleur, 

329

Wu,

Yongmei, 

11

Y

amada, 

Masahiro, 

16,

63,

66,

68,

73,

79n4, 

167; 

The

Age

of

Parasite

Singles

(

Parasaito 

shinguru

no

jidai

),

163

Yamagata 

Prefecture 

study 

of

child-rearing, 

228. 

See

also

child-rearing

Yasuda 

Mutsuhiko, 

316–317

Yoneda 

cultural 

festival, 

270,

278–279, 

280, 

282

Yoneda 

Junior 

High, 

277t., 

278–279, 

279,

280–281, 

282, 

283

Yoshioka, 

Ms., 

teacher, 

275–276

young 

mothers: 

childcare 

needs 

as

a

structural 

issue, 

228; 

“child-rearing 

neurosis” 

(

ikuji

noirōze

),

226; 

insecurities 

and

stresses 

of

child 

rearing, 

114, 

225–229, 

242, 

243, 

341; 

lack 

of

experience 

with 

infants 

and

children, 

228, 

240; 

studies 

of,

228–230. 

See

also

child-rearing; 

networks 

of

young 

mothers; 

stay-at-home 

mothers

young 

people: 

in

irregular 

employment 

(“freeters”), 

6,

213; 

performing 

part-time 

work 

(

arubaito

),

45,

339

youth 

unemployment, 

6

Yumiko 

(bubble-generation 

working 

woman), 

100–

101, 

102; 

on

a

lifetime 

clerical 

track, 

86–91; 

wanting 

tea-house 

employment, 

89,

90–91

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