Based on data collected on 1995 by the Japanese Sociological Association, this book investigates four major classes - new, old middle, capitalist and working -

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

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

Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an ‘all-middle-class society’

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