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Wang, Jing (2017)

Beyond Old Age: A study of the elderly in post 3.11 Japan

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

The problem of the elderly in post-3.11 Japan is not solvable at any single level. One cannot reduce all phenomena to results of a single factor, be it governmental practice, change in social capital, or arbitrary wills of a group of people. After all, the levels that are investigated in this paper only represent some perspectives of inquiry. It is the variety and specificity of older people’s situations that a proper research on them has to respect. Correspondingly, the foremost implication of this research is the importance of being patient to and leaving space for, the multiplicity of the voices of the elderly.

Elderly

Japan

3.11

Ageing

Author

Wang, Jing

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

East Asian Studies

Supervisors

Ezawa, Aya

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en