The disaster took place in the Tōhoku region in the 21st century
What is the 3/11 earthquake?
100
Hikikomori
What is the Japanese term for "socially withdrawn"?
100
The year that the 3/11 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurred
When is 2011?
100
This event caused the Tōhoku tsunami in 2011.
What is the 3/11 earthquake?
100
In what condition were the bodies of the people who starved to death found?
What is mummified?
200
This took place in the Kobe region in 1995
What is an earthquake?
200
What the man who starved to death meant in his last diary entry when he wrote, "onigiri tabetai."
What is "All I want to eat is a rice ball"?
200
The year that "Precarious Japan" was published.
When is 2013?
200
Related to 10 deaths per day in Tokyo
What is a lonely-death/loneliness?
200
The uprooting, circulation, and insecuritization of people without fixed homeland.
What is Refugeeism?
300
Name a country that Japan made agreements with to have nurses and nursing care workers come assist Japan with its aged population
Where is the Philippines? Where is Indonesia?
300
A two-word nickname for Postwar Japan that refers to "the corporatization of its social economy and the 'marriage' between the social factory at home and the postindustrial factory at work."
What is "Japan, Inc."?
300
The year that Japan's economic "bubble" burst, also the beginning of "the lost decade"
When is 1991?
300
Japan's aging population is proportionally growing at too fast a rate due to this rate.
What is a low birth-rate?
300
This phrase, which titles a section of the book, is caused by the increased cost of living and job stability. It is also associated with a decrease in filial piety.
What is Care Deficit?
400
In Akihabara, Katō Tomohiro did this to seven strangers, prompting others to do the same.
What is killed strangers?
400
The Japanese term furītā, often considered the opposite of the salary-earning sararīman.
What is the term for part-time or unemployed person?
400
The estimated decade by which one in every 2.5 people will be “old” in Japan and every old person will only be supported by only 1.3 workers
When are the 2050s?
400
The event that caused families to leave their prefecture to become "nuclear refugees."
What is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster?
400
The "drifting poor" cannot pay for more permanent housing, so they stay in this kind of cafe.
What are net cafes?
500
The major city to which Chihara Junior moved to become a comedian.
What is Osaka?
500
The complex system of relationships, of belonging to work, family, and state; a family-oriented way of life.
What is my-home-ism?
500
The decade in which the powerful Liberal Democratic Party was founded
When is the 1950s?
500
Ryudoka, a Japanese term for the liquidization of work and life, was caused by a transition in Japanese society to this type of employment.
What is flexible or temporary employment?
500
Japan's management style was called into question after the economic bubble burst, so this term was used to describe Japan's "new management style"