He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from UNAM, a Master's degree in Political Science and a PhD in Economics from the Free University of Berlin (Federal Germany). He has worked as a professor and researcher at UNAM, at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, at the Free University of Berlin, at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa. He has been visiting professor-researcher at El Colegio de Sonora, the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, the University of Seville, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Sofia University (Japan) and the Institute of Developing Economies (Japan). Since 2010 he is professor-researcher at the University of Guadalajara, in the Department of Pacific Studies. Member of the basic academic nucleus of the PhD in Social Sciences and the Master in Global Politics & Transpacific Studies. Professor in the PhD in Political Science. Founder and research coordinator of the Center for Japanese Studies at the UdG. He is the author of seven books, coordinator of ten books and more than one hundred articles published in national and foreign scientific journals.
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.