Imploding populations in Japan and Germany :  a comparison / 
edited by Florian Coulmas, Ralph Lützeler. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2011. 
 - 545 p. :  ill. 
 - International comparative social studies,  v. 25  1568-4474 ; .
<br/><br/>Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler -- Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono -- Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz -- Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization of reproduction / Wolfgang Streeck -- Economic globalization and changes in family formation as the cause of very low fertility in Japan / Shigesato Takahashi -- Income inequality in a rapidly ageing society, Japan : focusing on transformations in the structure of households with elderly / Sawako Shirahase -- Ageing societies : present challenges and models for the future / Gertrud M. Backes -- Japanese family policies in comparative perspective / Makoto Atoh -- Promoting gender equality, birthrates or human capital? Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Tuukka Toivonen -- Child care and work-life balance in low fertility Japan / Barbara G. Holthus -- Actors of social policy making in Japan : a look at the individual level / Axel Klein -- Growing up in a shrinking city : the impact of residential segregation on the qualitative reproduction of urban society / Klaus Peter Strohmeier -- Business implications of demographic change in Japan : chances and challenges for human resource and marketing management / Florian Kohlbacher -- - Silver employment in Germany : trends and consequences for the management of an ageing workforce / Christiane Hipp and Birgit Verworn -- New housing options for the elderly in Japan : the example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward / Maren Godzik -- The political economy of health-care migration : a Japanese perspective / Gabriele Vogt -- Care for the elderly and demographic change : ageing and migrant nurses in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia / Jens Friebe -- The power of address : age and gender in Japanese eldercare communication / Peter Backhaus -- Japan's adult guardianship system : statutory guardianship and civil guardians / Junko Ando -- Japan's adult guardianship law : current status and issues / Makoto Arai -- Demographic change and challenges from a regional perspective : the case of Germany / Franz-Josef Kemper -- Recent in-migration to peripheral regions of Japan in the context of incipient national population decline / Yoshitaka Ishikawa -- Rural depopulation and economic shrinkage in Japan : what can affected municipalities do about it? / Volker Elis -- Demographic, economic, and institutional shrinkage from the perspective of rural areas in Germany / Stephan Beetz -- Left behind in the global city : spaces and places of ageing and shrinking in the Tokyo metropolitan area / Ralph Lutzeler. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004187788 9004187782 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Demographic transition--Japan.<br/>Demographic transition--Germany.<br/>Population aging--Japan.<br/>Population aging--Germany.<br/>Population--Japan.<br/>Population--Germany.<br/>Demography--trends--Germany.<br/>Demography--trends--Japan.<br/>Aged--Germany.<br/>Aged--Japan.<br/>Family Relations--Germany.<br/>Family Relations--Japan.<br/>Public Policy--Germany.<br/>Public Policy--Japan.<br/>Socioeconomic Factors--Germany.<br/>Socioeconomic Factors--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB887  / I34 2011