Peter Matanle

Peter Matanle is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research and Innovation at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. His research and teaching interests are in the social and cultural geography of the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Japan. He has published widely on the theory and practice of lifetime employment, representations of gender in the workplace in popular culture, and regional social and environmental change under ageing and depopulation. His most recent publication on the latter subject formed the basis of this article.