This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to one of Japan's thorniest public policy issues: why are women increasingly forgoing motherhood? At the heart of

This book argues that Japan's extremely low fertility rate is due to labor markets inhospitable to women , which make it difficult for them to balance home and

This cutting edge collection examines Japan’s population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan’s social structure, specifica

This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institut

Historians have long been intrigued by Japan's static national population during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the output of the economy w