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The Perception on Migration in This Endangered World
by Hiroki Matsukura This world where we live is endangered. Why? This is because albeit through two destructive wars with cruel inhumanity, we, it seems, have not found where the monster of...
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Individual responsibility in Japan
by Natsuki Nakasone In the book Precarious Japan, Anne Allison says that individual responsibility (jikosekinin) is one of reasons that make hikikomori. We often see that people who reject the decision...
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Refugeeism, social rights and the Japanese government
Anonymous student post According to Anne Allison (2013), Japan is facing an era of ordinary refugeeism, in which ordinary people like us could be a homeless with no job and no place to return to. Many...
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Refugeeism and Denizenship
by Asuko Sugino First of all, I’ll talk about the definitions of “refugeeism” and ”denizenship”, secondly I’ll refer to where refugees or denizens might belong to instead, and then finally I’d like to...
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The pros and cons of “jiko sekinin”
by Ami Yamada In Precarious Japan, Anne Allison regards the movement that forced people to have more self-responsibility (“jiko sekinin”) as a negative on the whole. After the bursting of bubble, the...
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Social Equality and the Idol of Growth
by Marcel Koníček I come from the Czech Republic, a country with one of the most equal distributions of wealth in the world. However, even the Czech Republic has recently felt the change in the...
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The Rise of the Precariat
Anonymous student post Nowadays in the era of globalization companies are under more and more pressure to be as nimble and flexible as possible in order to be able to outmaneuver the competition. Thus...
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Finding my ibasho in the future
Editor’s note: Students have been reading Anne Allison‘s Precarious Japan and are commenting how recent economic and social challenges in Japan are impacting their plans for their futures. by Natsuki...
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