2005年,日本消费社会研究专家三浦展预言,当今日本社会已经迈入“下流社会”。其所著《下流社会:新的阶层集团的出现》一书于2005年9月出版,短短两个月内重印了六版,迅速冲上了日本亚马逊网络书店销售榜首,销量突破了40万册。三浦展的结论是,随着社会开始上下分流,财富向上流集中,日本社会阶层贫富两极分化日益加剧。 In 2005, Japan’s consumer society research expert Miura exhibition predicted that today’s Japanese society has entered a “dirty society.” The book “Downbeat Society: The Emergence of a New Hierarchy Group” was published in September 2005. It reprinted six editions in just two months and quickly topped Japan’s Amazon Web Bookstore sales volume, surpassing 400,000 book. The conclusion of the Miura exhibition is that with the social diversion up and down and the wealth going up, the polarization between the rich and the poor in Japan’s social strata has been aggravating day by day.