Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2026

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 29, issue 1, 2026

Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement, by Emma Dalton and Caroline Norma pp. 137

Ayako Kano

The silent majority and the power of social constructs: how the Kitagawa scandal perpetuated sexual violence pp. jyaf039.

Yukiko Nishikawa

Volume 28, issue 2, 2025

The influence of offline and online local community engagement and collective efficacy on COVID-19 self-efficacy: a study of six prefectures in Japan pp. .

Joo-Young Jung, Lisi Mai and Kiyoko Toriumi

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press, by César Castellvi pp. 174

McNeill David

(No) Sex in Japan: A Sociology of Sexlessness in Intimate Relationships, by Alice Pacher pp. 209

Emma E Cook

Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance pp. 222

Ryūnoshin Kamikawa

Base Towns: Local contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan, by Claudia Junghyun Kim pp. 228

Ra Mason

The Politics of Public Broadcasting in Britain and Japan: The BBC and NHK Compared pp. 244

Koichiro Shigaki

Ryōiki o Koenai Minshushugi—Chihō Seiji ni okeru Kyōsō to Min’i (Fragmented Democracies: Competition and Legitimacy in Japanese Local Politics) pp. 248

Akira Tsuji

The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities, by Helena Hof. Bristol pp. 264

Ryoko Yamamoto

Gendai Nihon no Shinbun to Seiji — Chihōshi, Zenkokushi to Yūkensha, Seijika (Newspapers and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Local Papers, National Papers, Voters, and Politicians), Seijika, by Kaneko Tomoki pp. 264

Masaki Hata

Popurizumu no Seiji Shakaigaku—Yūkensha no Shiji to Tōhyō Kōdō (A Political Sociology of Populism) by Matsutani Mitsuru. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2022, 268 pp., ¥4,400 (ISBN 9784130301855) pp. 268

Tatsuya Iseki

Perspectives on social inequality through employment in Japan pp. 270

Kaoru Sonoda

Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan, by Akihiro Ogawa pp. 272

Anna Wiemann

Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy) pp. 272

Yoko Demelius and Kamila Szczepanska

Nichibei Dōmei ni okeru Kyōdō Bōei Taisei no Keisei—Jōyaku Teiketsu kara ‘Nichibei Bōei Kyōryoku no tame no Shishin’ Sakutei made (Formation of a Defense Coordination Framework in the Japan-U.S. Alliance: From the Conclusion of the Treaty to the Formulation of the ‘Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation’) pp. 280

Teruyoshi Shibata

Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train pp. 304

Christopher P Hood

What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States pp. 326

Mikiko Eto

Josei Heishi to iu Nanmon: Jendā kara tou Sensō, Guntai no Shakaigaku (The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers: Sociology of War and the Military from a Gender Perspective) pp. 330

Miklas Fahrenwaldt

ODA no Kokusai Seiji Keizai-Gaku–Sengonihon Gaikō to Taigai Enjo 1952–2022 (The International Political Economy of ODA—Postwar Japanese Diplomacy and Foreign Aid 1952-2022) by Hoshiro Hiroyuki pp. 348

Raymond Yamamoto

Jenseits von Nation und Imperium: Interaktionen koreanischer Studierender und japanischer Protestanten (1880–1923) by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus pp. 354

Juljan Biontino

Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni pp. 392

Dongjun Lee

Attitudes on the entry ban in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. jyae035

Melanie Sayuri Sonntag, Michael Strausz and Yuki Shiraito

Does contact improve intergroup attitudes? Evidence from Japanese perceptions of Chinese and South Koreans pp. jyaf008

Zeng Cai

Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps pp. jyaf021

Paul Christensen, Cindi Sturtz, Charles Crabtree and Charles T McClean

Yorokonde Morau: the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it) pp. jyaf022

Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and Dionyssios Askitis

Between precarity and protest: Cambodian migrants and the failures of Japan’s TITP pp. jyaf025

Phengse Chhour

School memorials as sites of memory and the dynamics of remembrance after the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. jyaf029

Julia Gerster and Akihiro Shibayama

Securing a place for death: social capital and Muslim migrants’ struggle for burial cemeteries in contemporary Japan pp. jyaf030

Shinji Kojima and Derrace G McCallum

Public support for governments in China and Japan during a global health crisis pp. jyaf031

Yida Zhai

Dark Green Religion, trans-Pacific counterculture, and the ethno-environmental politics of Japanese Hippies on Suwanose Island and Amami Ōshima, 1965–1989 pp. jyaf032

Till Knaudt

Memory, testimony, and activism: the politics of commemorating the massacre of Koreans after the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake pp. jyaf035

Kwanghoon Han

Volume 28, issue 1, 2025

What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy pp. 65-79

Naoto Higuchi

Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment pp. 78-87

Azusa Matsumoto, Kenji Oku, Mariko Nakagawa, Hisamitsu Saito, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Keisuke Kawata, Ichiro Oki, Tatsuya Atsumi and Yuichiro Yoshida

Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents pp. 98-115

Mai Seki, Masahiro Shoji and Izumi Yamasaki

Policy change and national identification: the discursive institutionalism of Japan’s migrant admission policy pp. 105-89

Sachi Takaya

The COVID-19 crisis as a double-edged revealer: Japanese employees’ hope for change in corporate warrior culture and the gendered impediments to such change pp. 139-58

Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni

Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War pp. 238

David McNeill

Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific pp. 260-32

Nancy Snow

Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety pp. 264

Shunsuke Nozawa

Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation pp. 272-557

Sebastien Lechevalier

Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō pp. 328

David Parker

Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency) pp. 384-51

Koichi Kawai

Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality) pp. 544

Walter Wyman

Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan pp. 1491-515

Satoshi Araki

Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective pp. 65a-79

David Chiavacci

Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan pp. 852-71

Hilary J Holbrow and Hao Liang

Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan pp. 1338-50

Anju Yamada

How Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination policy shapes trust in governance: a relative deprivation approach pp. 101278-3

Naoki Sudo

Volume 27, issue 2, 2024

Scars of the job market “ice-age” pp. 133-148

Ayako Kondo

Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai pp. 149-168

Yoko Demelius and Kamila Szczepanska

Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy pp. 169-182

Tatsuya Iseki and Sou Shinomoto

Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates pp. 183-198

Eiji Yamamura

Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics pp. 199-219

Sijeong Lim and Seiki Tanaka

Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan pp. 221-229

Masaki Hata

Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan pp. 231-239

Kakeru Okamoto and Masahiro Zenkyo

The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19 pp. 241-259

Georg D Blind, Stefania Lottanti von Mandach, Masahiro Kotosaka and David Chiavacci

Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan pp. 261-264

Eiji Oguma

47 Todōfuken no Chihō Jichi: ‘Shichōson e no Kengen Ijō’ ni miru Seido Unyō no Hikaku Kenkyū (Local Governance in the 47 Prefectures: Comparative Analysis of Institutional Operations in the Transfer of Authority to Municipalities) pp. 265-268

Satoshi Machidori

Sengo Nihon no Anzen Hoshō: Nichibei Dōmei, Kenpō 9 jō kara NSC made (Japan’s Postwar National Security: From the US-Japan Alliance and Article 9 to the NSC) pp. 269-272

Marco Zappa

Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits pp. 273-276

Liliana Morais

Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left pp. 277-280

Till Knaudt

Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors) pp. 281-283

Izuru Makihara

Education and Social Justice in Japan pp. 285-287

Roger Goodman

Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War pp. 289-292

Garren Mulloy

Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”) pp. 293-295

Kuniaki Nemoto

Volume 27, issue 1, 2024

The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-2

Kenneth Mori McElwain

In Remembrance of Ehud Hararia pp. 3-4

Kenneth Mori McElwain

The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga pp. 5-20

Raymond Yamamoto and Karen Ejersbo Iversen

Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field pp. 21-40

Glenda S Roberts and Noriko Fujita

Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific pp. 41-56

Nobuo Haruna

The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence pp. 57-76

Paul O’Shea

Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures? pp. 77-90

Tatsuya Iseki, Sohei Shigemura, Shun Ikeda and Hideo Ishima

Ideating University Reform in Japan pp. 91-100

Jeremy Breaden

Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective pp. 101-102

Daniel P Aldrich

Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan pp. 103-106

Orion Klautau

Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition pp. 107-110

Yoshimichi Yui

Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys) pp. 111-112

Yosuke Sunahara

Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture (Rieki-dantai nai no dotai to seiken kōtai: Nōgyō hyō no yukai) pp. 113-114

Kazunori Kawamura

Rethinking Locality in Japan pp. 115-118

Stephanie Assmann

Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan (Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa) pp. 119-120

Christoph Brumann

Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (Hearing Voices, Joining the Chorus: Appropriating Someone Else’s Fieldnotes) pp. 121-124

Millie Creighton

Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism (Hegemonic, Nonhegemonic, and “New” Masculinities) pp. 125-128

Christopher Tso