Making Meaningful Lives
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one''s life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, th...
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one''s life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, th...
