Both books have added valuable research to theĭiscourse on Japan’s recent phenomenon of rapidly increasing socioeconomic stratification and as a result have redefined contemporaryĬlass consciousness in Japan. This book was followed by the marketing-researcher and social critic Miura Atsushi’s (2005) study Karyū shakai:Īratana kaisō shūdan no shutsugen [Lower-class society: The appearance Ga Nihon o hikisaku [Society of expectation gaps: The despair of “losers” His (2004) best-selling Kibō kakusa shakai: “Makegumi” no zetsubōkan Phenomenon as identified by sociology professor Yamada Masahiro in 1 This paper investigates the popular cultural implications of the kakusa shakai Surprise shift from his predilection for the horror genre to a focus onįamily drama, a shift indicative of Japan’s most recent social malaise,Ĭommonly referred to as kakusa shakai. This statement by writer-director Kurosawa Kiyoshi (*1955) marks a (Kurosawa in a conversation with Kasman ) So I found that the familyĭrama really had the potential for a real dynamic space for all these Own set of problems and issues out in the world ⫺ and then theyīring those back home, into the family. So, if you think about it, every one of them confronts their I initially dismissed the idea of portraying an average family asīeing very static, but I think that what I realized was that everybody, though they belong to a family, they go out into the Keywords: shomin-geki realist film working class kakusa shakai socialĭisparity Japanese film Kurosawa Kiyoshi.
The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan’s “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature Woman], which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary socialĬhallenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna [One million yen and the nigamushi The traditional breadwinner losing his job. This concern is especially evident in the film Tokyo Sonata directedīy Kurosawa Kiyoshi in 2008, which depicts a family in crisis because of Profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent Is given to the plight of Japan’s older working-class generations who are Within the popular cultural media of recent films. This article also examines how Japan’s growing stratification is situated Of postwar economic growth, each subsequent generation of Japanese hasĪllegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes theyĮxperienced through popular cultural media like film and manga. Media reflects an increasing concern with the rapidly changing social landscape in contemporary Japanese society. A recent revival of sociological terms like freeter and NEET in popular cultural This article investigates the popular cultural implications of the “gap-widening society” (kakusa shakai) as identified by Yamada Masahiro.
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