目次

1. Making Sense of Youth Problems, Tuukka Toivonen and Yuki Imoto   2. From Pitiful to Privileged? The Fifty Year Story of the Changing Perception and Status of Japan’s Returnee Children (kikokushijo), Roger Goodman   3. Narratives and Statistics: How Compensated Dating (enjo kōsai) Was Sold, Sharon Kinsella   4. Taibatsu: From Educational Solution to Social Problem to Marginalized Non-Issue, Aaron Miller   5. The ‘Discovery’ and ‘Rediscovery’ of Child Abuse (jidō gyakutai) in Japan, Roger Goodman   6. Hikikomori: How Private Isolation Caught the Public Eye, Sachiko Horiguchi   7. NEETs: The Strategy within the Category, Tuukka Toivonen   8. Shifting Landscapes: The Social Context of Youth Problems in an Ageing Nation, Roger Goodman