The book is a study of intergenerational class mobility and the process of socioeconomic status attainment in contemporary Japan. The idea of 'Japan as an educa

Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-ma

First Published in 1994. The focus of this study is class and stratification in Japan. There are a few papers on social stratification in Japan that are written

Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions betwee