{"id":236,"date":"2010-10-26T03:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T03:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=236"},"modified":"2020-07-06T21:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:08:47","slug":"to-discipline-or-accommodate-on-the-rehabilitation-of-japanese-problem-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/to-discipline-or-accommodate-on-the-rehabilitation-of-japanese-problem-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"To Discipline or Accommodate? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese \u2018Problem Youth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Image1Totsuka-believes-he-can-cure-any-problem-child.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-666 alignleft\" alt=\"Image1Totsuka believes he can cure any 'problem child'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Image1Totsuka-believes-he-can-cure-any-problem-child.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Image1Totsuka-believes-he-can-cure-any-problem-child.jpg 490w, https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Image1Totsuka-believes-he-can-cure-any-problem-child-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a>While mainstream education has received ample attention from scholars of Japan, the\u00a0diverse kinds of private institutions concerned with the rehabilitation of so-called\u00a0\u2018problem youth\u2019 have not hitherto been subjected to systematic analysis. This article offers\u00a0an in-depth study of two starkly contrasting organizations, the Totsuka Yacht School\u00a0and K2 International. We focus on the rehabilitation philosophies of these groups and\u00a0examine how they view \u2018problem youth\u2019; the remedies they advocate; the critical incidents\u00a0they have been implicated in; and how they have responded in their aftermath. These two\u00a0organizations epitomize two important opposing paradigms of rehabilitation: one\u00a0\u2018disciplinarian\u2019 and one \u2018accommodating\u2019, and therefore reflect different moral discourses\u00a0regarding youth and the problems they face. Analysis of these groups illustrates how they\u00a0are being challenged by current social and educational trends, but also how, as local\u00a0actors, the charismatic leaders of these institutions also play a significant role in shaping\u00a0the discourse. This study is among the first to map out the complex terrain of residential\u00a0rehabilitative institutions in Japan. It also raises questions for educators regarding the\u00a0meaning of \u2018non-formal\u2019 or \u2018alternative\u2019 education, helps youth specialists better\u00a0understand the diversity of approaches employed in dealing with \u2018problem youth\u2019, and\u00a0will be of interest to non-Japan scholars seeking evidence of approaches to rehabilitation\u00a0which do not solely attempt to \u2018medicalize\u2019 youth as being \u2018ill\u2019 or to \u2018activate\u2019 them in\u00a0order to return them to the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/-aaron-miller\/3368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> or download the file as a .pdf file\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/AaronMillerYouthRehabJapanFocus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While mainstream education has received ample attention from scholars of Japan, the\u00a0diverse kinds of private institutions concerned with the rehabilitation of so-called\u00a0\u2018problem youth\u2019 have not hitherto been subjected to systematic analysis. This article offers\u00a0an in-depth study of two starkly contrasting organizations, the Totsuka Yacht School\u00a0and K2 International. We focus on the rehabilitation philosophies of these&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/to-discipline-or-accommodate-on-the-rehabilitation-of-japanese-problem-youth\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Discipline or Accommodate? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese \u2018Problem Youth\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-journal-articles","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}