Japan's Youth & Non-Regular Employment Analysis
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
Topic: “Non-Regular Employment and the Social Position of Young Adults in Contemporary Japan”
The paper should be a focused 10-page essay that emphasises Japanese social conditions and their historical foundations, with a limited political economy angle on labour regulation and policy response.
Requirements:
Use 1.5 line spacing, a serif font such as Times New Roman or Cambria, and page numbers.
1 page = 2400 characters
Use in-text citations only, not footnotes or endnotes, and follow one citation style consistently. (APA7 + refer to https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296262&p=1974226 for Japanese sources)
Include a bibliography of at least 1200 pages of reading in total.
Actively use at least 35 pages of Japanese-language material, including 2-4 primary sources in the analysis, not just in the bibliography.
Integrate both English-language scholarship and Japanese sources analytically.
Content expectations:
Narrow the topic to one group, such as recent graduates or young service-sector workers, rather than all young adults.
Link present-day non-regular employment to historical developments in Japan’s postwar employment system and later restructuring.
Analyse the issue through themes such as: Social inequality, Japanese social conditions and social positions, historical foundations of contemporary Japan, economic restructuring after the bubble, labour market structure, policymaking and policy response, social welfare, gender, work and family dynamics, social integration
Suggested structure:
Introduction
Background/context
Presentation of Japanese materials
Discussion linked to course themes
Conclusion
Relevant Japanese materials may include labour ministry reports, Japanese survey data, labour union or advocacy publications, and Japanese newspaper articles.
No full methodology section is needed, because this is not a social-science methods paper.
The paper should be a focused 10-page essay that emphasises Japanese social conditions and their historical foundations, with a limited political economy angle on labour regulation and policy response.
Requirements:
Use 1.5 line spacing, a serif font such as Times New Roman or Cambria, and page numbers.
1 page = 2400 characters
Use in-text citations only, not footnotes or endnotes, and follow one citation style consistently. (APA7 + refer to https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296262&p=1974226 for Japanese sources)
Include a bibliography of at least 1200 pages of reading in total.
Actively use at least 35 pages of Japanese-language material, including 2-4 primary sources in the analysis, not just in the bibliography.
Integrate both English-language scholarship and Japanese sources analytically.
Content expectations:
Narrow the topic to one group, such as recent graduates or young service-sector workers, rather than all young adults.
Link present-day non-regular employment to historical developments in Japan’s postwar employment system and later restructuring.
Analyse the issue through themes such as: Social inequality, Japanese social conditions and social positions, historical foundations of contemporary Japan, economic restructuring after the bubble, labour market structure, policymaking and policy response, social welfare, gender, work and family dynamics, social integration
Suggested structure:
Introduction
Background/context
Presentation of Japanese materials
Discussion linked to course themes
Conclusion
Relevant Japanese materials may include labour ministry reports, Japanese survey data, labour union or advocacy publications, and Japanese newspaper articles.
No full methodology section is needed, because this is not a social-science methods paper.