The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan's “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature and films. In comparison, Tanada Yuki's Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna, which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary social challenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from university. This concern is especially evident in the film Tokyo Sonata directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi in 2008, which depicts a family in crisis because of the traditional breadwinner losing his job. Special consideration is given to the plight of Japan's older working-class generations who are profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent years. subsequent generation of Japanese has allegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes they experienced through popular cultural media like film and manga.This article also examines how Japan's growing stratification is situated within the popular cultural media of recent films. A nuclidic mass formula composed of a gross term, an even-odd term and a shell term is presented as a revised version of the mass formula constructed by the present authors and published in 2000. Starting with the phenomenon of postwar economic growth, each. A recent revival of sociological terms like freeter and NEET in popular cultural media reflects an increasing concern with the rapidly changing social landscape in contemporary Japanese society. This article investigates the popular cultural implications of the “gap-widening society” (kakusa shakai) as identified by Yamada Masahiro. The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan’s “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature and films. In comparison, Tanada Yuki’s Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna, which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary social challenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from university.
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Special consideration is given to the plight of Japan’s older working-class generations who are profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent years. This article also examines how Japan’s growing stratification is situated within the popular cultural media of recent films.
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Starting with the phenomenon of postwar economic growth, each subsequent generation of Japanese has allegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes they experienced through popular cultural media like film and manga. society of widening gaps, Miura began publishing a conspicuous. Naoki Kasuga analyzes the freeter problem, in which Japanese young people refuse to Join. This article investigates the popular cultural implications of the “gap-widening society” (kakusa shakai) as identified by Yamada Masahiro. In 2004, one year after family sociologist Yamada Masahiro coined the word kakusa shakai.