Conference organized by Japan Youth Study Group（ 青 少 年 研 究 会 ） http://jysg.jp/en/index.html

Crisis and Hope for Japanese YouthSaturday, November 30, 201309:30 -19:00 (JST)
Venue: Room Châtelet (4th floor), Shufu Kaikan (Plaza F), Tokyo, Japan
青少年研究会は「Crisis and Hope for Japanese Youth」と題する国際会議を 2013 年 11 月 30 日（土）に開催します。
参加を希望される方は、11 月 22 日（金）までに、次のサイトからお申し込みください（Participants should registerby the deadline, November 22） → http://goo.gl/puZivR	  ※会場収容人数には限りがありますので、申し込み多数の場合には先着順となる可能性があります。	  ※本会議は JSPS 科研費 23243065（基盤研究 A「流動化社会における都市青年文化の経時的実証研究――世代間／世代内比較分析を通じて」）の助成を受けた調査研究の成果報告を兼ねています。

Conference themes
This conference aims at understanding the reality of crisis Japanese youth have been facing and examining the possibility ofhope for them with empirical and comparative approach. Three sessions are organized about crisis and hope in family formationand partnership, social and political participation, and transition and life planning respectively.
The first question is what or where the crisis is for youth. A lot of people have been talking about "Youth Problems" or "YouthCrisis" since late 1990s in Japan like other advanced societies. They, however, do not necessarily ground their understanding ofyouth on empirical data. As a result, "Problems" or "Crisis" are sometimes like urban folklores or just false stories. "Worsening
youth crime in Japan" is one of those stories. We need to approach crisis for youth in a more empirical and comparative way.
The second question is what or where the possible hope is for youth. Crisis sometimes has possibility for hope inside because
when existing system fails, they can find room for various alternative ways. For example, when they face difficulty making familyor they are not willing to do so, they could start to try new ways of living together. Thus understanding the reality of crisis canhelp us to tackle the second question.
Japan Youth Study Group has been conducting time series survey since early 1990s. Based on the third survey data collected in2012, we will try to answer those two questions. We also try to introduce comparative perspective by inviting guest presentersfrom abroad.

Program
09:30-09:40 Registration
09:40-09:55 Opening Address
Masayuki FUJIMURA, President of Japan Youth Study Group and Professor at Sophia University
10:00-12:00 Session 1 Crisis and hope in fam ily form ation and partnership
Chair: Ichiyo HABUCHI, Hirosaki University
Presenter 1: Prof. Shin TOMABECHI
Parent-Child Relationships in Urban Areas: An Analysis of how these Relationships
Vary with Children’s Life Courses and Residence Patterns
Presenter 2: Prof. CHOU Dienfang
The Promotion of Anti-declining Birthrate in Taiwan
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 2 Crisis and hope in social and political participation
Chair: Tomohiko ASANO, Tokyo Gakugei University
Presenter 1: Mr. Tomohiro FUJITAJapanese Youth Attitudes towards their Country
Presenter 2: Prof. Anita HARRIS
Crisis, Hope or Something In-Between?: ‘Ordinary’ Young People and Contemporary
Forms of Participation
16:00-16:15 Break Time
16:15-18:15 Session 3 Crisis and hope in transition and life planning
Chair: Mikito TERACHI, International University of Japan
Presenter 1: Dr. Tomokazu MAKINOThe Transformation of School to W ork Transition System in Japan and Youth Job
Consciousness
Presenter 2: Dr. Jaana LÄHTEENMAAExtreme and Reflexive Trying Among the Young Unemployed: A Result of Being
Between Fear and Hope?
18:15-18:45 Discussion
18:45-19:00 Closing Remarks

19:30-21:30 Reception (for applicants)

Presenter Profiles
Shin TOMABECHI

Associate Professor,
Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University
Research Themes: Sociology, Social Problems, FamilyStudies.
Areas of Specialization: Social Problems, Social
Constructions of Family, Qualitative Research
Methods
Publications:Book
Communication Survival of Youth People.
(Co-editor) Kouseishakouseikaku, 2006.
Articles1996 “Which Will You Select at First, Marriage orLove?: From the Rhetoric of 'Fuufu-Bessei
Problem'”, Annals of Family Studies, 21: 62-73.
2000 “Narrative of 'Joshikousei(High-School Girls)'
Problem: From the Analysis of the Magazine
Articles about 'Joshikousei(High-School Girls)'1990's”, Shakaigaku Ronshuu, 24: 133-151.
2002 “Family in the Interactions: the Approarch ofSocial Constructionism by Gubrium and Holstein”,
The
SocialPsychologyofInteraction,
Hokujushuppan: 159-175.

CHOU

Dienfang
Associate Professor,
Department of Communication, Tzu Chi University(Taiwan)
Research theme: sociology, communication study,gender, Japan Study
Interested in: 1）台湾における少子化対策とメディ
ア政策、 2）台湾におけるヤオイ現象、3）ネットいじめ問題、4）メディアリテラシー
Papers:Chou, D. (2011.06.08). The Promotion ofAnti-declining Birthrate in Taiwan. The 17thInternational Conference of the International
Association of Intercultural Communication
Studies (IAICS). Chiapas, Mexico.
周典芳（2011.05.29）。台湾における少子化現象：政府のメディア施策を中心に。関西社会学会
第 62 回大会。甲南女子大学、日本：神戸。
周典芳（2011. 05）、台湾でのネットいじめの実態と対策。現代のエスプリ。No. 526, 149-156。
東京：ぎょうせい。
周典芳（2010.05.30）。台湾におけるヤオイ同人
文化：作者インタビューによって見えたヤオイの世界。関西社会学会第 61 回大会。名古屋市立大学、日本：名古屋。
Chou, D. (2010.04). Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi
in Taiwan for the Female Readers: From thePerspective of Gender. Journal of Interculturalpolitical engagement and civic connection (withCommunication Studies. 19(1), 78-90.
Johanna Wyn).
She has written widely on young people and周典芳（2010.03）。台湾におけるヤオイ読者のchanging forms of political and civic practice. Her
男性同性愛に対する意識。情報コミュニケー
books include Young People and Everyday
ション学研究。No.8/9, 53-65。
Multiculturalism (Routledge 2013), Future Girl:周典芳（2009.09）。台湾におけるヤオイ現象：
Young Women in the 21st Century (Routledge,読者インタビューから見出したヤオイの理由。 2004); Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures,日本ジェンダー研究。No.12, 41-55。
Activism (ed; Routledge, 2008) and All About theChou, D. (2009.09.18). An Investigation of Females’
Girl (ed; Routledge, 2004). She is a member of theReading on Homosexual Manga and Novels: Ainternational advisory board of the European
Yaoi Phenomenon in Taiwan. The 15thCommission FP7 project ‘Processes influencing
International Conference of the International
Democratic Ownership and Participation’, and an
Association of Intercultural Communication
Associate Editor of the Journal of Youth Studies.
Studies (IAICS). Kumamoto, Japan.
Chen, G. M., Chou, D., Pan, B., & Chang, C.
(2008.01). An Analysis of Tzu Chi's Public Tomokazu MAKINO Research Fellow,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Communication Campaign on Body Donation.
Research Theme: Self, Self-Help Discourse, Juvenile
China Media Research, 4(1), 56-61.
CrimePublications:
Tomohiro FUJITA PhD Candidate
Makino, T., (2012) Jiko keihatsu no jidai: ‘Jiko’ no(His current affiliation is St. Andrews University.)
bunkashakaigaku teki tankyū (The age of selfResearch Theme: Cultural Sociology
development: A cultural and sociological inquiry
Main Research Achievement:
into ‘self’), Tokyo: Keisō Shobō.
Fujita,T. 2013, "Changing Japanese Attitudes
Makino, T., (2013), "School to work transition andtowards Foreign Countries 1993-2008,"
youth views on labour in Japan," in Helena HelveInternational Seminar on Changing Values
and Karen Evans (eds.) Youth and Workof Japan Society, Vietnam Academy ofTransitions in Changing Social Landscapes,Tufnell Press.
Social Sciences, Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh, 19 &22, February.
Fujita,T. 2013,"J rigu ni okeru sakka imin noJaana LÄHTEENM AA Professor oftokusei to henka(Football Migrants in the J.
Youth Studies, University of Tampere(Finland);
League: Features and Trends)," Japan
Senior Researcher, Department of Social Sciences,
Journal of Sport Sociology 21(1):101-110.
University of Helsinki (Finland); In a research

Anita HARRIS

Access to Shufu Kaikan (Plaza F)

Associate Professor ofSociology, Monash University (Australia)
Anita Harris is an Associate Professor ofSociology at Monash University, Australia, where
she holds an Australian Research Council FutureFellowship. Her research interests include youth
identities and cultures in the context of: citizenship,participation and new politics; globalisation andmulticulturalism, and gender and girls’ studies. She
is currently undertaking two major projects looking
at young people's construction of civic life: ‘Young
People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City’and ‘The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims:
Active Citizenship, Community Belonging andSocial Inclusion’ and has recently completed aproject on young people’s emergent practices of

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Yotsuya St. Kojimachi Exit

project ”YOUNG-PAC” financed by the Academyof Finland
Her overall research interest include youth
cultures, youth policy and the discourses on ”Youthproblems” as well as the governance of youth in (asfar: the European) societies. Empirical data she hasgathered in Finland, during and between two
economic recessions (from the beginning of the1990’s to these days). In the ”Young- PAC” research project she and two colleagues study
especially activating labour market policies that aredirected at the young unemployed: both theexperiences of the young themselves, the policies
and the public image of those policies and its’
reception among the young.