Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 2 - "The Boy From Shangri La"/シャングリラの少年 - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on some aspects of the Japanese economy on 1986: laborforce participation by youth and women, educational attainment, tanshinfunin, migrant labor, and... orange imports. Plus - another Japanese poem.

- Chart of youth unemployment rate in Japan, 1970-2020.

- Youth employment rate in Japan, 1979-1986.

- Wikipedia page on the Japanese education system.

- Wikipedia page on Japan in the 1980s.

- Paper on labor force participation from the Bank of Japan Review.

- Study on how tanshinfunin fathers affect children’s socioemotional development, from Hokkaido University.

- Wikipedia page about migrant labor.

- Page about migrant workers in Japan, from the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (based in Osaka).

- Discussion and definition of the “natural” unemployment rate.

- Paper on “Migrant Workers in the Post-War History of Japan” by Yasuo Kuwahara of Dokkyo University.

- Paper on “Development of Immigration Policy in Japan” by Atsushi Kondo of Kyushu Sangyo University.

- Unesco Institute for Statistic page (source for 1980 upper-secondary school completion rate).

- “Education in Japan: Past and Present” (source for enrollment rates in upper-secondary school in 1980).

- Text used for information on internal migration in Japan:

Ishikawa, Yoshitaka. “Internal Migration in Japan.” Internal Migration in the Countries of Asia: a Cross-National Comparison, by Martin Bell, Springer, 2020, pp. 113-136.

- Industry overview of the Japanese fruit-imports market (with historical background).

- 1987 article from the South Florida Sun Sentinel about Japan lifting import quotas on American oranges in 1988 (I misspoke in the episode and said 1998).

- Paper from the USDA’s Economic Research Service, “The Japanese Market for Oranges.”

- 1983 paper from the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, “Japan’s Quantitative Restrictions on the Importation of A