Japanese Women’s Rights and Their Roles in the Contemporary Aging Japan from the Perspective of Selected Social Problems
Japanese Women’s Rights and Their Roles in the Contemporary Aging Japan from the Perspective of Selected Social Problems

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes selected women rights in comparison to the past, contemporary social problems of Japanese society and stereotypical social roles of women. Taking into consideration the future of Japan, the most important problem of Japanese society is that Japan suffers from declining fertility-rate and rapidly aging population. In the next 50 years there will probably be only 84 million Japanese people (currently slightly above 127 million). The working age population (15–64) will fall by nearly half from today’s level of 80 million to 42 million. Along with the change of the customary perception of female traditional social roles, the professional activity of Japanese women seems to be the only solution. What is more, new laws giving the same rights to Japanese woman as Japanese men have, should be implemented.

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