Moeka Iida

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193 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Economist Podcasts · Elbows up, again: a US-Canada trade flare-up · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

Force at a time of economic downturn, struggle with precarious, insecure work, and also low pay.

And in fact, their struggles are quite familiar to a lot of Japanese people.

So the woes of the ISIS generation is something that gets discussed a lot in politics and in the news.

And their economic hardship is also associated with a lot of social problems that Japan has.

For instance, like hikikomori or social recluses.

Japan's recent

Economic changes are adding a new twist to their story.

So what's happening in Japan now is that the country is emerging from decades of deflation.

Prices are finally going up, and firms are able to pass down prices to consumers and are able to give them back to employees in the form of salaries.

But these pay rises are concentrated among younger workers and the

I say's generation is left behind once again.

Yes, exactly.

The struggles of the Ice Age generation becomes even clearer when you understand what came before them.

So looking at the people who graduated during the bubble era.

What happened in the bubble era is in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties, companies hired in huge numbers, and there's a lot of stories about this time period.

So students would find their mailboxes filled with recruitment letters from companies keen to woo them or

Or being treated to fancy meals by prospective employers.

But everything changed when the bubble popped in the 1990s.

Because Japan's employment system is very rigid and it's hard to shed existing workers, even in the face of an economic downturn, the people who were already employed by companies clinged on to their positions, but the firms froze hiring instead, so it affected younger people and students.

And in fact, the ratio

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