After the fierce class struggles in the first postwar years, a societal model describing Japan as a general middle …-class society with outstanding equality in opportunities and outcome became dominant. In recent years, a new societal model of Japan … studies neither fully support a model of Japan as an exceptionally equal society from the 1960s onward nor do they show a …

Estimated Income History -- Chapter 9 Another aspect of social inequality, wealth, in a super-aged society, Japan: Re …Chapter 1 Class Structure, Education, and Social Mobility in Post-war Japan -- Chapter 2 The changing marriage market … Educational Opportunity Using the 2015 SSM Survey Data -- Chapter 4 Long-Term Trends in Long-Term Employment in Japan -- Chapter 5 …

income, young people are notably less well off than those in other age groups. Finally, I used the Japan Life Course Panel …The primary aim of this paper is to examine inequalities in Japan by looking at attitudes towards class identity …, through an exploration of three specific topics: first, where Japan stood at the end of the 1990s in a cross …