Casa Robino

Policy makers and the media have suggested that a deficit of work ethics and a lack of motivation among young people has caused many of the problems that exist in the youth labour market. However, it is hard to justify such assumptions. In particular there has been a tendency to underestimate the significance of the declining demand for youth labour and to overlook the significance of limited opportunities and structured disadvantage. Precarious condition has been increasing within Japanese young people since mid-nineties. Freeter and NEET attracted many people's concern, and Western mass media also covered freeter's story as a new life-style of Japanese young people