1961 in Japan


Events in the year 1961 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 36 in the Japanese calendar.
Demographically, Shinjinrui Generation is the second youngest Japanese demographic cohort, which approximately born between 1961 and 1969. Many youngest Japanese individuals were born beginning around this first date were often subsequently identified as "Shinjinrui" because they are not experienced their suffering older generations during and after Asia-Pacific War in World War II and/or post-war period, and on the contrary. They grew up in material plenty at the end of Japanese economic miracle and the beginning of economic stagnation. It was coined by anthropologist Shinichiro Kurimoto, this second youngest Japanese generation was seen as having a different mindset compared to their predecessors, influenced by Japanese economic boom and changing societal norms.

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