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War is the Only Solution. A 31-year-old freeter explains the plight and future of Japan's Marginal Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tatsuya Mori ,
Tomohiro Akagi ,
Noriharu Okuhara ,
Mizuho Fukushima  and
Selden Kyoko
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I have been thinking about this sort of thing often.

On a Sunday morning, after my night work, before coming home to sleep, I go out to a nearby shopping center and find a father who is about my age, who seems to be enjoying shopping with his wife and child. With men past age thirty, a marriage rush seems to begin like an angry wave. My friends from the past are deciding to marry one by one.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 6 , June 2007 , e14
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