Retirement in Japan and South Korea: The past, the present and the future of mandatory retirement

This book analyzes reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing.　 A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages. The book explains past developments and recent reforms of retirement policies both in the two countries, as well as in a cross-national comparative manner.