Grant amount：\45630000 （ Direct Cost: \35100000 、 Indirect Cost：\10530000 ）

The purpose of this study is to clarify what kind of impact the nuclear accident has on the life and health of parents and children living in central Fukushima Prefecture, and to consider necessary support measures. Therefore, after experiencing the sudden life change after the nuclear accident through the annual fixed-point observational questionnaire survey and interviews, mothers who are in a gradual recovery trend but who cannot adapt to it experience mental health decline, thus it led to children's problem behavior. Measures to support parents and children reduce the sense of financial burden and unfairness about compensation, and reduce the gap of awareness over dealing with radiation. In addition, it is necessary to make environment that can choose vacation, evacuation, and to reduce parenting anxiety, health anxiety in Fukushima.

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Grant amount：\12870000 （ Direct Cost: \9900000 、 Indirect Cost：\2970000 ）

Four important social changes that affect mobility regime, institutional arrangements organizing life courses, are in progress in contemporary Asian societies: Globalization, the rise of neo-liberalism, the shift to service industry, and the falling birthrate and the aging population. This project focused on these changes, the falling birthrate and the aging population in particular, and studied the effects of changes in mobility regime on risks of employment and livelihood in contemporary Asian societies. A main finding is that the effects of the demographic change on mobility regime vary between strata and, therefore, it is necessary to conduct detailed analysis of the change in risks of employment and livelihood focusing on social stratification.

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Grant amount：\1950000 （ Direct Cost: \1500000 、 Indirect Cost：\450000 ）

This study empirically revealed the social determinants of anxiety for the 3 risks such as nuclear energy, unemployment, and crime victimization and the social consequences by analyzing social survey data. First, concerning anxiety for nuclear energy risk, we confirmed the differences by gender, age, and social class, and these differences are mediated by values such as egalitarianism. Second, I conducted an international comparison analysis of anxiety for unemployment risk. The results indicated that institutional factors such as active labour market policy decreased the level and stratification of anxiety. Third, I compared the results of the 3 risks including anxiety for crime victimization risk, and we did not find the tendency that anxiety for risk spreads universally across social attributes or social class.

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Grant amount：\11830000 （ Direct Cost: \9100000 、 Indirect Cost：\2730000 ）

We conducted high school students survey based on questionnaire every 6 years since 2001. In 2013 the third survey was carried out in three prefectures; Fukuoka(7 schools), Osaka(9 schools) and Tokyo(10 schools).We collected the data of 6092 students. Features of the third high school students survey can be reduced to following two points. Firstly, by carrying out survey in Tokyo as well as Fukuoka and Osaka, we tried to bring the collected data to be representative of the Japanese society . Secondly, in light of the Great East Japan Earthquake, we analyzed the consicousness of high school students about the role of science and technology in society.
The results of data analysis are as follows, (1) strengthening of conformity to the norm, (2)progress of the conservatism in political attitude, (3) The approval rating for nuclear power generation of science course students is higher than that of the other course students. These are interesting and suggestive findings of our survey.

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Grant amount：\10270000 （ Direct Cost: \7900000 、 Indirect Cost：\2370000 ）

We described and explained the changing values in Japan, 1973-2008, comparing with those in other countries. Our main findings are as follows. Firstly, the direction of value changes were not toward the post-modernity, but toward the hyper-modernity. Post-modernization of values means diversification of values, decreasing association between values and social class, and recession of modern values. Hyper-modernization means rising orientation toward private life, and self expression. Secondly, We decomposed the value changes into three factors: age, period, and cohort (APC). Although the effects of APC were inconsistent, the effects of cohort were consistently smaller than previous studies had emphasized. When a large value change happened in a whole society, it happened among older cohorts as well as younger cohorts.

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Grant amount：\17290000 （ Direct Cost: \13300000 、 Indirect Cost：\3990000 ）

The purpose of this research is to make clear what kind of influence the Fukushima nuclear accident is having on a life and health of the children and mothers who live at Fukushima Prefecture Nakadori and consider necessary aid package. We have participated for it, observation, interview survey and three questionnaire investigations, the children and mothers who live in Nakadori 9 towns and villages were experiencing a sudden living change by the nuclear accident, and the mother who can't adapt herself to that was experiencing a decline of mental health and made it clear that that is related to children's problem behaviors. Aid package to the children and mothers reduces financial strains and unfairness concerning compensation and reduces a difference in risk perception and behaviors concerning cope to radioactivity. It's necessary to make it the environment that refreshment and evacuation can be chosen and reduce child rearing anxiety in Fukushima and health anxiety.

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Grant amount：\12480000 （ Direct Cost: \9600000 、 Indirect Cost：\2880000 ）

This research project focused on a social mechanism in which global changes change mobility regimes, which in turn change social stratification and the distribution of employment-livelihood risks. Analyzing the mechanism led to the following findings. (1) The inequality between regular and non-regular workers has historical backgrounds. (2) The revision of Part-time Employment Act and Temporary Staffing Services Law contributed to legalizing the existing inequality among workers. (3) Social institutions affect people’s choices of education and occupation in various aspects.

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Grant amount：\34970000 （ Direct Cost: \26900000 、 Indirect Cost：\8070000 ）

The purposes of this study are to understand behavior and attitude of urban youth in their late teens and 20's, and then to compare them with those of 30's and 40's. Following the survey in 1992, 2002, we conducted the third one in Suginami ward in Tokyo and Nada and Higashi-nada ward in Kobe in 2012. Based on the data collected, we grasped 1) basic conditions of youth and 2) changes in their behavior and attitude through the last 20 years, and 3) we also made comparison between youth and the middle aged on the one hand and 4) between the same cohort in 1992, 2002 and 2012, with their age advancing, on the other hand. The results are that young people nowadays are found to have the stability-oriented and practical attitude towards their life and society, and that what used to be thought as unique features of the youth in '90s and '00s are found to be under strong influence of each period.

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