Housing and Social Transition in Japan (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: does the housing system matter? - Yosuke Hirayama and Richard Ronald  2. Reshaping the housing system: home ownership as a catalyst for social transformation - Yosuke Hirayama  3. Transformations in housing construction and finance - Eiji Oizumi  4. Welfare regime theories and the Japanese housing system - Iwao Sato  5. Turning stock into cash flow: strategies using housing assets in an ageing society - Misa Izuhara  6. Housing, family and gender - Mieko Hinokidani  7. Social exclusion and homelessness - Masami Iwata  8. The Japanese home in transition: housing, consumption and modernisation - Richard Ronald  9. Situating the Japanese housing system ? Richard Ronald and Yosuke Hirayama