Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 26, issue 2, 2023

Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area pp. 157-174

Kenjiro Sakakibara

Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach pp. 175-200

Alvaro Dominguez

Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 201-214

Rumika Suzuki Hillyer

Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19 pp. 215-234

Satoshi Araki

Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan pp. 235-242

Deborah J Milly

Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration pp. 243-246

Sven Saaler

Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy pp. 247-250

Alisa Gaunder

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives pp. 251-254

Annette Schad-Seifert

Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory) pp. 255-258

Mayumi Itayama

Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline) pp. 259-262

Romeo Marcantuoni

Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association pp. 263-266

Susanne Brucksch

Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders) pp. 267-269

Peter Cave

Volume 26, issue 1, 2023

The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-2

Kenneth Mori McELWAIN

Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan pp. 3-26

Nora Kottmann and Laura Dales

Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan pp. 27-46

Ulv Hanssen and Eun Hee Woo

Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan pp. 47-60

Katsunori Seki

The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College pp. 61-76

Wen Li, Kunio Urakawa and Fumihiko Suga

Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants pp. 77-92

Yunchen Tian

Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem pp. 93-112

Bjol R Frenkenberger

China and Japan: Facing History pp. 113-116

Nancy Snow

Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific pp. 117-120

Kei Koga

Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia) pp. 121-124

Naofumi Nakamura

Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps pp. 125-128

Jeremy A Yellen

Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept) pp. 129-132

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki

Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni pp. 133-136

Christian G Winkler

Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility pp. 137-140

Tatsuya Maisawa

Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo pp. 141-144

Anne Aronsson

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome pp. 145-148

Masafumi Monden

Koyō kankei to shakaiteki fubyōdō: Sangyōteki shitizunshippu keisei tenkai to shite no kōzō hendō (Employment Relations and Social Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Development of Industrial Citizenship) pp. 149-152

Hiroshi Kanbayashi

Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture pp. 153-155

Hanno Jentzsch

Volume 25, issue 2, 2022

Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship (Measuring Dimensions of National Identity across Countries: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections) pp. 209-228

Yujin Woo

Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants (Immigrant Latina Mothers as Targets of Legal Violence) pp. 229-246

Dipesh Kharel

Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace (Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments) pp. 247-272

Philippe Orsini and Remy Magnier-Watanabe

A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data (Collective Smile: Measuring Societal Happiness from Geolocated Images) pp. 273-296

Tiziana Carpi, Airo Hino, Stefano Iacus and Giuseppe Porro

Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters (Aligning Policy with Practice: Japanese ODA and Normative Values) pp. 297-330

Hiroyuki Hoshiro

Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature (A Method to Determine the Level 1 and Level 2 Tsunami Inundation Areas for Reconstruction in Eastern Japan and Possible Application in Pre-disaster Areas) pp. 331-352

Michael Fisch

Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods pp. 353-356

Helena Hof

Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan pp. 357-360

Barbara Holthus

Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination) pp. 361-364

Stephanie Assmann

Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism (Colonies and Empire in the Political Thought of Hegel and Marx) pp. 365-368

Andrew Levidis

The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68 (A Farewell to Class: The Japanese New Left, the Colonial Landscape of Kamagasaki, and the Anti-Japanese Front (1970–75)) pp. 369-372

Till Knaudt

Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan pp. 373-376

Mesrob Vartavarian

Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History) pp. 377-380

Taku Tamaki

Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma pp. 381-384

Corey Wallace

Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika pp. 385-386

Steven R Reed

Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei pp. 387-390

Izuru Makihara

Gakuryoku, shinri, katei kankyō no keizai bunseki: Zenkoku shōchūgakusei no tsuiseki chōsa kara miete kita mono (An Economic Analysis of Academic Ability, Non-cognitive Ability, and Family Background: Primary Findings from a Panel Survey of Japanese School-Age Children) pp. 391-394

Kei Murata

Nihon no safety net no kakusa—rōdō shijo no henyō to shakai hoshō (Inequality of the Safety Net in Japan—The Transformation of the Labour Market and Social Security) pp. 395-398

Ryuichi Tanaka

Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege pp. 399-402

Allison Alexy

Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan (The Depaato: Merchandising the West While Selling “Japaneseness”) pp. 403-405

Stephanie Assmann

Volume 25, issue 1, 2022

The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-2

Kenneth Mori McElwain

The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (Hypothesis Testing in Hedonic Price Estimation — On the Selection of Independent Variables) pp. 3-28

Ti-Ching Peng and Chun-Chieh Wang

Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations (Everyday International Relations: Garbage, Grand Designs, and Mundane Matters) pp. 29-54

Linus Hagström, Thao-Nguyen Ha and Dan Öberg

Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers (Racism and Nationalism During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic) pp. 55-82

Yusaku Horiuchi and Nana Oishi

Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power (How Clientelism Varies: Comparing Patronage Democracies) pp. 83-100

Steven R Reed

Electoral Rules, Nomination Strategies, and Women’s Representation in Japan and Taiwan (Was Taiwan’s Electoral Reform Good for Women? SNTV, MMM, Gender Quotas, and Female Representation) pp. 101-124

Chao-Chi Lin and Wan-Ying Yang

Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan (Legislative Party Polarization and Trust in State Legislatures) pp. 125-140

Taka-aki Asano

Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?) (Identity Politics in Okinawan Elections: The Emergence of Regional Populism) pp. 141-144

Andreas Eder-Ramsauer

Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination (Between Geography and Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Be in the Place-World?) pp. 145-148

Christian Wirth

Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities (Identity and Recognition: Remembering and Forgetting the Post-War in Sino-Japanese Relations) pp. 149-152

Kai Schulze

Okinawa heiwaron no ajenda: ikari wo chikara ni suru shiza to hōhō (An Agenda for Okinawan Peace Studies: Viewpoints and Methodologies for Transforming Anger into Power) (‘Senryaku shisō to shite no “kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō”’ (‘Basic Defense Forces Concept’ as a Strategic Philosophy)) pp. 153-156

Ra Mason

Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War pp. 157-160

Jeremy A Yellen

Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan pp. 161-164

John Person

Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki pp. 165-168

Meredith Shaw

Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire pp. 169-172

Bruce Grover

Education and Social Stratification in South Korea pp. 173-176

Jisun Jung

Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms pp. 177-180

Asei Ito

Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy (Japan is offering sex workers financial aid. But they say it’s not enough to survive the coronavirus pandemic) pp. 181-184

Emma E Cook

Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change (Rethinking Comparative Political Economy: The Growth Model Perspective) pp. 185-188

Steffen Heinrich

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy pp. 189-192

Anne Stefanie Aronsson

Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept (‘Sengo nihon no gaikokujin seisaku to zainichi korian no shakai undō—1970 nendai wo chūshinni’ (Foreigner Policy in Postwar Japan and Social Movements among Koreans in Japan—Focus on the 1970s)) pp. 193-196

Michael Strausz

Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds (Ethnosexual Frontiers in Queer Tokyo: The Production of Racialized Desire in Japan) pp. 197-200

Stephen Christopher

In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire pp. 201-204

Ernani Oda

Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry (Kimono and the Construction of Gendered and Cultural Identities) pp. 205-207

Stephanie Assmann