On the Margins of Japanese Society

Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass

By Carolyn S. Stevens

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About the Book

The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society.
Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.

About the Author(s)

Carolyn S. Stevens is a lecturer in the Department of Japanese and Chinese, University of Melbourne. She has taught at Sophia Univeristy and Obirin Junior College and has worked for two years as a volunteer with the homeless and the elderly in New York City before beginning research on volunteer groups in urban Japan.