Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
- ISBN-10
- 1400077796
- ISBN-13
- 9781400077793
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Michael Zielenziger
Description
A journey inside modern-day Japan reveals the economic and social realities that have created a lost generation of Japanese young adults, examining the country's a high suicide rate, low birthrate, untreated cases of depression, young men who have become recluses from society, and young women who have rejected the traditional path to marriage and motherhood. Reprint.
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