Social factors and demographic trends, Japan as a case study

Social factors and demographic trends, Japan as a case study

Friday, 14 March 2014 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Venue: 
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Speaker(s): 
Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute and Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and Professor Ralph Lützeler, Department for Japanese and Korean Studies, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Universität of Bonn
Convenor: 
Dr Ekaterina Hertog and Dr Hiroaki Matsuura
Series: 
Nissan Seminar

At 4.00 p.m. Professor Mary Brinton will present her paper Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labor and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility 

followed by

Professor Ralph Lützeler who will give his paper on The Geography of Ageing and Population Decline in Japan.

Professor Brinton and Professor Lützeler will then take questions about their papers together.