Precarious Youth and Its Social/Political Discourse : Freeters, NEETs, and Unemployed Youth in Japan(Comparative Studies on NEET, Freeter, and Unemployed Youth in Japan and the UK)

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• Since the early 1990s the transition from school to work in Japan has become extremely unstable, with vulnerable youth being most affected by the changes. This paper introduces contemporary debates about the transitions of vulnerable youth in Japan, describes the situations of young people at risk, highlights the prevalence and characteristics of young people experiencing difficult transitions, and investigates subjective dimensions of vulnerable transitions. Policy makers and the media have suggested that a deficit of work ethics and a lack of motivation among young people has caused many of the problems that exist in the youth labour market. However, it is hard to justify such assumptions. In particular there has been a tendency to underestimate the significance of the declining demand for youth labour and to overlook the significance of limited opportunities and structured disadvantage. Precarious condition has been increasing within Japanese young people since mid-nineties. Freeter and NEET attracted many people's concern, and Western mass media also covered freeter's story as a new life-style of Japanese young people (ex. Young Japanese Breaking Old Salaryman's Bonds, New York Times, October 16, 2001). Though many people have concern about freeter/NEET, the reality of young people's condition is not recognised accurately. We will introduce the context where freeter/NEET came to existence in Japan, debate about them including youth policies (Section 1), analyse the character of precarious young people categorised in freeter, NEET and unemployed based on some official data (Section 2), and discuss about the subjective aspect of them and it's social function (Section 3).

著者

• Inui Akio

  Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences Tokyo Metropolitan University

• Sano Masahiko

  Faculty Of Humanities Soai University

• Hiratsuka Maki

  Faculty Of Social Sciences Hosei University

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• Precarious Youth and Its Social/Political Discourse : Freeters, NEETs, and Unemployed Youth in Japan(Comparative Studies on NEET, Freeter, and Unemployed Youth in Japan and the UK)

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