Comprehensive Analysis of Social Change in Present-day Japan Through Individualization Theory

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We held a series of symposiums to which were invited Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, and discussed also with speakers from Japan about the significance of individualization theory in the history of sociology, cultural context of contemporary Japan, and comparison of family and social security systems between Europe and East Asia etc. We also analyzed the differing characteristics of individualization between Japanese society and European society accompanying the transition from the first to the second modernity, and published the results in academic journals in the UK and Germany.