Dear friends and colleagues,

Fondation France Japon de l'EHESS is pleased to invite you to it next Japanese week (Paris, 14-21 mars)

Youth in the Crisis: a Lost Generation?

Program of the events (2011, March 14th – March 21st)

Organized by Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS

With the support of The Japan Foundation and of ANA

In partnership with Cercles de formation de l’EHESS, Editions de l’EHESS, and Le Monde

In collaboration with INALCO, Paris 1 University and ESSEC

French and Japanese youth share some similarities regarding their education, their selection and their integration into working life. Since 2008, both youths face a deep crisis that primarily concerns new comers on the labour market. This situation raises the issue of social relations between generations and leads to the analysis of the so-called "scaring effect": will the difficulties in entering the labour market during crisis affect durably the future trajectories? This effect has been uncovered by Japanese researchers during the "Lost Decade" in the 1990s. During this "Japanese week", Japanese, French, American and Canadian researchers will discuss the perspectives of young generations through a symposium, debates, and seminars. They will also analyze the social and political issues of such a situation in ageing societies.

Organization committee

Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)

Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)

Cécile Van de Velde (EHESS)

n International symposium "Youth in the Crisis:
a Lost Generation?"

Free entrance but mandatory registration: ffj@ehess.fr

p Part 1 "Are the young taking a bad start? The
"scaring effect"
in debate"

2011, March 15th, 10 am – 1 pm, EHESS, amphithéâtre François Furet, 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris

Chair: Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS)

Panelists: Anne Sonnet (OECD), Louis Chauvel (Sciences Po), Yuji Genda (The University of Tokyo), Mary C.
Brinton (Harvard University)

Comments: Anne-Marie Guillemard (Université Paris 5 &
EHESS) & Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)

Simultaneous interpretation French/Japanese

p Part 2 "Education and transition from school
to work: a broken
promise?"

2011, March 17th, 10 am – 1pm, EHESS, amphithéâtre François Furet, 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris

Chair: André Masson (EHESS)

Panelists: François Dubet (EHESS), Takehiko Kariya (Oxford University), Yuji Genda (The University of
Tokyo)

Comments: Cécile Van de Velde (EHESS) & Yuichiro Mizumachi (The University of Tokyo)

Simultaneous interpretation French/Japanese

n Screening & debate: "Tokyo Freeters"

2011, March 16th, 6:30 pm – 9 pm

Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, 101 Bis Quai Branly, 75015 Paris

Screening of a documentary by Marc Petitjean: "Tokyo Freeters" (2010)

Followed by a debate with Mary C. Brinton (Harvard University), Louis Chauvel (Sciences Po), Yuji Genda (Université de Tokyo), Hiroko Takeda (Sheffield University), Cécile Van de Velde (EHESS)

Simultaneous interpretation French/Japanese

Free entrance

n Series of seminars: "Youth issues"

p March 14th, 3 pm – 4:30 pm (in collaboration
with ESSEC)

Julian Dierkes (University of British Columbia)

"A Sense of Crisis in Education and the Continuing Growth of Supplementary Education in Contemporary Japan"

Organizer: Laurent Bibard (ESSEC)

Place: ESSEC, Avenue Bernard Hirsch B.P. 50105 95021 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex (room F037)

p March 17th , 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm (in
collaboration with INALCO)

Takehiko Kariya (Oxford University)

"Education in Japan and the issue of equality" (in
Japanese)

Organizer: Isabelle Konuma (INALCO)

Place: INALCO, Centre Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny - Paris 16 (Hall A4)

p March 17th , 7 pm – 9 pm

Hiroko Takeda (Sheffield University)

"Shining Jobs: Work and Young Japanese Women in a Struggling Economy" (in
English)

Organizer: Cécile Van de Velde (EHESS), Seminar « Sociologie des âges de la vie »

Place: EHESS, 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris (room 11)

p March 21st, 11 am – 12:30 pm (in collaboration
with Paris 1 University)

Ayako Kondo (Osaka University)

"Long-term effects of labor market conditions on family formation for Japanese youth" (in English)

Organizer: Nicolas Jacquement (Paris 1 University), Seminar « Travaux en Econométrie et Microéconomie Appliquée (TEMA) »

Place: Maison des Sciences Economiques, 106 boulevard de l’hôpital, Paris 13, (room S18).

More information on our website: http://ffj.ehess.fr/

Sebastien LECHEVALIER
Fondation France Japon de l'EHESS
105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris FRANCE
tel: 33 (0)1 53 63 51 99
sebastien.lechevalier@ehess.fr
Webpage: http://ffj.ehess.fr/