Books by Junko Kitanaka
“She argues that depression has become not only an individual matter but rather a social and national matter. Importantly, this change overlaps with the Japanese economic downturn starting in the mid-1990s. So it occurs when the Japan boom years ended, when lots of people lost their jobs or lost their lifetime employment, so they had to work harder without any extra pay. That kind of environment created ‘deaths from overwork’.” Read more...
Chigusa Yamaura, Anthropologist
Interviews where books by Junko Kitanaka were recommended
-
1
Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law
by Mark D West -
2
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
by Anne Allison -
3
Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance in Everyday Life in Post-war Okinawa
by Christopher T Nelson -
4
Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
by Jennifer Robertson -
5
Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
by Junko Kitanaka
The best books on Japan, recommended by Chigusa Yamaura
The best books on Japan, recommended by Chigusa Yamaura
Japan is one of the world’s most technologically advanced industrial societies, but it is organised around very conservative social and familial paradigms, says the Japanese sociocultural anthropologist Chigusa Yamaura. Here she selects five books that throw light on a fascinating country and culture.
