{"id":975,"date":"2018-01-18T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=975"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:51:08","slug":"0221-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/events\/0221-2\/","title":{"rendered":"21 FEB, Symposium \u201cSinglehood, Living Alone and Work-Life Conflict…\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>International Symposium \u201cSinglehood, Living Alone and Work-Life Conflict in Japan\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: Wednesday 21 February, 2018\u00a0 13:00-16:00
\nVenue<\/strong>: Room 102, Inter-Faculty Building 2<\/p>\n

Coordinator: Annette Schad-Seifert (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS \/ Professor, Japanese Studies, Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf)<\/p>\n

Japan has been showing a marked trend toward developing into a single society. One of the causes for this trend is an increase in the proportion of never-married persons, and of persons who do not intend to ever marry. These changes in marriage behavior have raised grave concerns among policymakers and scholars as this trend is correlated with the probability of living alone in old age, i.e., without a partner or family. According to a survey report published by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research in 2016, it was estimated that half of the population in Japan will be single by 2035.<\/p>\n

The symposium invites international scholars of expertise in sociology, social anthropology and Japanese studies to present the causes and potential consequences of the dramatic rise of solo living in Japan. It has been assumed that higher education levels and growing economic independence of women have triggered a society in which fewer marriages take place. However, detailed empirical analyses of relationships between avoiding marriage or union formation and social values, working patterns, or corporate culture are still limited.<\/p>\n

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Introductory Remarks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Annette Schad-Seifert<\/strong>
\n(Specially Appointed Professor, IGS \/ Professor, Japanese Studies, Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf)<\/span><\/td>\n		Japan\u2019s Never-Married Singles in National Population Surveys<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Research Reports<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Dales<\/span><\/strong>
\n(Lecturer, Asian Studies, The University of Western Australia)<\/span><\/td>\n		Single Women and Their Households<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Swee-Lin Ho<\/span><\/strong>
\n(Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, National University of Singapore)<\/span><\/td>\n		Gendered Precarity: The Ambivalent and Conflicted Lives of Women Managers in Japan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commentators<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott North<\/span><\/strong> (Professor of Sociology, Osaka University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nora Kottmann<\/span><\/strong> (Lecturer, Japanese Studies, Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Simultaneous interpretation available (English-Japanese)<\/p>\n

Admission Free<\/p>\n

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Feb. 2 International Symposium Pre-reading List<\/p>\n

Reading materials available at IGS office. (contact: yoshihara.kumi@ocha.ac.jp)<\/p>\n

\u3010English book\u3011<\/p>\n