Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan
Subtitle: Beyond the Urban Salaryman Model (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415244466
First sentence: In 1963, Ezra Vogel described the then newly (re)emerging lifestyle of Japan's 'new middle class', introducing Western readers to 'the salaryman', white-collar workers in large corporations and government bureaucracies (1971/1963: 5).