Japan's ‘Socially Withdrawn Youths’ and Time Constraints in Japanese Society: Management and conceptualization of time in a support group for ‘hikikomori’

Time & Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 233-249

  Kaneko, Sachiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ethnography; Japanese youth; narrative; social withdrawal; time constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748789331     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X06067034     Document Type: Article

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