The Ice Age Generation. The Lost Two Decades. The Lost Generation. The virtuous fifty-year-old mother, Reiko, was living with her soon-to-retire husband and her soon-to-be thirty-year-old son, Hajime, in a family of three. The source of their worries was Hajime's employment. The son, belonging to what is called an Ice Age generation, was visibly troubled by his inability to find a job. One day, Reiko went upstairs to tidy up Hajime's children's room...
