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Introduction: Changing Generations in Japan Today Gordon Mathews andBruce White Part One: The Japanese Generational Divide 1. The Generation Gapin Japanese Society since the 1960s Tetsuo Sakurai 2. Why are Japanese YouthToday so Passive? Satoshi Kotani 3. The Local Roots of Global Citizenship:Generational Change in a Kyushu Hamlet Bruce White Part Two: How TeenagersCope With the Adult World 4. How Japanese Teenagers Cope: Social Pressuresand Personal Responses Peter Ackermann 5. Youth Fashion and ChangingBeautification Practices Laura Miller 6. 'Guiding' Japan's UniversityStudents through the Generation Gap Brian McVeigh Part Three: How YoungAdults Challenge the Social Order 7. Seeking a Career, Finding a Job: HowYoung People Enter and Resist the Japanese World of Work Gordon Mathews 8.Mothers and Their Unmarried Daughters: An Intimate Look at GenerationalChange Lynne Nakano and Moeko Wagatsuma 9. What Happens When They Come Back:How Japanese Young People with Foreign University Degrees Experience theJapanese Workplace Shunta Mori 10. Centered Selves and Life Choices: ChangingAttitudes of Young Educated Mothers Ayumi Sasagawa