Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Population Implosion: Coping with the Unknown -- PART 1 SOCIETIES OF POPULATION DECLINE -- Confronting the Demographic Trilemma of Low Fertility, Ageing and Depopulation -- Europe's Demographic Future -- Flexible Employment, Flexible Families, and the Socialization of Reproduction -- Economic Globalization and Changes in Family Formation as the Cause of Very Low Fertility in Japan -- Income Inequality in a Rapidly Ageing Society, Japan: Focusing on Transformations in the Structure of Households with Elderly -- Ageing Societies: Present Challenges and Models for the Future -- PART II FERTILITY DECLINE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- Japanese Family Policies in Comparative Perspective -- Promoting Gender Equality, Birthrates, or Human Capital? Germany, Japan and Family Policy Discourse -- Child Care and Work-Life Balance in Low-Fertility Japan -- Actors of Social Policy Making in Japan: A Look at the Individual Level -- Growing Up in a Shrinking City: The Impact of Residential Segregation on the Qualitative Reproduction of Urban Society -- PART III CHANLLENGES AND CHANCES OF AGEING -- Business Implications of Demographic Change in Japan: Chances and Challenges for Human Resource and Marketing Management -- Silver Employment in Germany: Trends and Consequences for the Management of an Ageing Workforce -- New Housing Options for the Elderly in Japan: The Example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward -- The Political Economy of Health-Care Migration: A Japanese Perspective -- Care for the Elderly and Demographic Change: Ageing and Migrant Nurses in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia -- The Power of Address: Age and Gender in Japanese Eldercare Communication.

Japan's Adult Guardianship System: Statutory Guardianship and VOLUNTEER Guardians -- Japan's Adult Guardianship Law: Current Status and Issues -- PART IV REGIONAL ASPECTS OF AGEING AND DEPOPULATION -- Demographic Change and Challenges from a Regional Perspective: The Case of Germany -- Recent In-Migration to Peripheral Regions of Japan in the Context of Incipient National Population Decline -- Rural Depopulation and Economic Shrinkage in Japan: What Can Affected Municipalities Do About It? -- Demographic, Economic and Institutional Shrinkage - From the Perspective of Rural Areas in Germany -- Left Behind in the Global City: Spaces and Places of Ageing and Shrinking in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area -- References -- Index of Authors Cited -- Index of Subjects.