Shutting Out the Sun How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Shutting Out the Sun How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

By Michael Zielenziger

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About the book

The world’s second wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Even more troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from soci...Show more

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ISBN

9780385513036

Publisher

Nan A. Talese

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Shutting Out the Sun How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

Format

Hardcover

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