Japanese youth and foreign migrants face stringent institutionalised controls in Japan. This book questions the efficacy of such social controls, focusing on th

This book explores state controls in Japan, focusing on the interrelation of inequality and deviance of youth and migrant groups which leads to crime.

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’

The two leading sociologists of social stratification in Japan argue that most Japanese have attained a level of income in which they no longer suffer from pove

First published in Japanese in 2006 by University of Tokyo Press as Henkasuru shakai no fubyaodao.