Japan: the burnout of a nation

Japanese society is experiencing certain phenomena that are addressed by the author and that he attributes, taking up the ideas of the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han in his work entitled The Burnout Society, to the exhaustion of Japanese society that has taken root in the accelerated modernization of the country since the economic miracle that Japan experienced in the mid-twentieth century. Phenomena such as child suicide, depression, demographic decline, gradual death due to overwork or karoshi, among others, are some of the aspects taken up by the author, who points out the urgency of addressing the state of exhaustion of the Japanese. Thus, this work allows us to learn about various aspects of Japanese society, Carlos Maya brings us closer to controversial and alarming issues of Japan in an entertaining and easy to understand way to reflect on the following: what is the cost of modernization? It seems that in Japan the cost was the stability and mental health of individuals.

2021 | | 167 pages

ISBN Electrónico: 978-607-30-5532-1