Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 24, issue 2, 2021

Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered (Women and Social Stratification: A Case of Intellectual Sexism) pp. 277-288

Sawako Shirahase

Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan’s Social Control (Kauntā kōdō no ichizuke’ (The positioning of counter-action)) pp. 289-309

Ayaka Löschke

Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment (What is Recovery? A Working Definition from the Betty Ford Institute) pp. 311-326

Paul Christensen

Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism (The Ideological Foundations of the New Life Movement: A Study in Counterrevolution) pp. 327-345

Seok-Won Lee

The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945 (‘Hiroshima no hito no itami wa watashi no itami’ (Hiroshima’s Pain is My Pain)) pp. 347-367

Michiko Suzuki

The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet (Differently Abled American Politicians and the Impact of Their Abilities on Their Lives, Careers, and Policies) pp. 369-396

Sae Okura

Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (Nichi-bei kaisen to jōhō-sen (Intelligence war and the outbreak of the US-Japan war)) pp. 397-399

Ken Kotani

Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century pp. 401-403

Paul Midford

The Political History of Modern Japan (Japan’s Middle East Policy, 1972–1974: Resources Diplomacy, Pro-American Policy, and New Left) pp. 405-406

Giulio Pugliese

Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia pp. 407-409

Andrea Pressello

Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding pp. 411-414

Eiji Oguma

Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan pp. 415-417

Andrew L Oros

Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933 pp. 419-421

Noriko Kanahara

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline pp. 423-426

Linda Hasunuma

Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar pp. 427-429

Andrea E Murray

Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Shuri Castle and Japanese Castles: A Controversial Heritage) pp. 431-434

Jon Morris

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe pp. 435-437

Wenkai He

Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area) pp. 439-441

Yosuke Sunahara

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan pp. 443-444

Ellen B Rubinstein

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan (Mastery with Age: The Appeal of the Traditional Arts to Senior Citizens in Contemporary Japan) pp. 445-447

Susanne Klien

The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan pp. 449-452

Wolfram Manzenreiter

The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia pp. 453-454

Junichi Nagai

Volume 24, issue 1, 2021

The Winner of the 2020 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-2

Leonard J Schoppa

Introduction: Japan’s Energy Transition 10 Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident pp. 3-7

Florentine Koppenborg

Breaking Iron Triangles: Beliefs and Interests in Japanese Renewable Energy Policy pp. 9-44

Rie Watanabe

Losing Steam: Why Does Japan Produce So Little Geothermal Power? pp. 45-65

Jacques E C Hymans

Climate Change Policy: Can New Actors Affect Japan’s Policy-Making in the Paris Agreement Era? pp. 67-84

Yasuko Kameyama

Vertical and Horizontal Networks Revisited: Exploring Their Effects on Attitudes and Advocacy Toward Nuclear Energy pp. 85-113

Keiichi Satoh and Tobias Weiss

Nuclear Restart Politics: How the ‘Nuclear Village’ Lost Policy Implementation Power pp. 115-135

Florentine Koppenborg

Japan Meets the Sharing Economy: Contending Frames pp. 137-161

Thomas G Altura, Yuki Hashimoto, Sanford M Jacoby, Kaoru Kanai and Kazuro Saguchi

Corporate Transfers for Dual-Career Couples: From Gendered Tenkin to Gender-Equal Negotiations? pp. 163-183

Noriko Fujita

Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness Among Foreign Residents in Japan pp. 185-208

David Green, Matthew Linley, Justin Whitney and Yae Sano

Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth pp. 209-212

Gregory W Noble

Auf der Jagd nach der Sonne. Das journalistische Feld und die Atomkraft in Japan pp. 213-216

Fabian Schäfer

Energy Transition in East Asia: A Social Science Perspective pp. 217-219

Florentine Koppenborg

Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy pp. 221-223

Anna Wiemann

Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters pp. 225-227

Shingo Nagamatsu

Nihon no chihō seifu: 1700 jichitai no jitai to kadai (Japan’s Local Governments: The State and Challenges of 1700 Municipalities) pp. 229-232

Ken Victor Leonard Hijino

Nihon no makuro keizai seisaku: mijuku na minshu seiji no kiketsu (Japan’s Macroeconomic Policies: The Consequences of Immature Democratic Politics) pp. 233-235

Saori Shibata

Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan pp. 237-239

Satoshi Machidori

The Self-Defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan pp. 241-244

Robert D Eldridge

Jinkō Mondai to Imin: Nihon no Jinkō - Kaisō Kōzoku wa Dō Kawaru ka (Population Problems and Immigration: How Is Japan’s Population and Social Structure Changing?) pp. 245-248

David Chiavacci

Ideorogī to Nihon Seiji: Sedai de Kotonaru Hoshu to Kakushin (Generational Gap in Japanese Politics: A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour) pp. 249-252

Hirofumi Miwa

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan pp. 253-255

Robin M Leblanc

Living on the Streets in Japan: Homeless Women Break their Silence pp. 257-259

Johannes Kiener

Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan pp. 261-263

Simon Avenell

Japanese Culture Through Videogames pp. 265-268

Nissim Otmazgin

Pachinko sangyōshi: shūen keizai kara kyodai shijo e (Pachinko Industry: From a Black Market to a Mass Market) pp. 269-271

Tomonori Ishioka

A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea pp. 273-275

Penelope Francks

Volume 23, issue 1, 2020

The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence pp. 3-21

Leonard J Schoppa

Absence, Ambiguity, and Deviating Pleasure Activism: The Tokyo Rainbow Film Festival pp. 23-36

Qin Qin

Tax Burdens in Japan and South Korea: Measurement Using Average Effective Tax Rates pp. 37-64

Sung Ho PARKAssociate Professor

Why Is Japan’s Housing Vacancy Rate So High? A History of Postwar Housing Policy pp. 65-77

Beibei Zhang

China’s Rise and Australia-Japan-US Relations: Primacy and Leadership in East Asia pp. 79-82

Christian Wirth

Nikkan kokkō seijōka koshō no seijishi (A Political History of Japan-Korea Normalization Talks) pp. 82-85

Dongjun Lee

Japan and the Shaping of Post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia: Japanese Diplomacy and the Cambodia Conflict, 1978–1993 pp. 85-88

Hidekazu Wakatsuki

Reisen no shūen to Nippon gaikō: Suzuki, Nakasone, Takeshita seiken no gaisei 1980 - 1989 nen (Japanese diplomacy at the end of the Cold War: Foreign policies under Suzuki, Nakasone, and Takeshita, 1980–1989) pp. 89-91

Hiroyuki Hoshiro

The Territory of Japan pp. 91-93

Paul O’shea

Japan in the American Century pp. 93-95

Tomohito Shinoda

By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 pp. 96-98

John Hemmings

Kakumitsuyaku kara Okinawa mondai e: Ogasawara henkan no seijishi (From the Secret Agreement on Nuclear Weapons to the Okinawa Problem: The Political History of the Bonin Islands Reversion) pp. 98-101

Hiroshi Komatsu

Shīkuwāsā no chie: Oku, yanbaru no ‘kotoba – kurashi – ikimono no kan’ (Shīkuwāsā’s wisdom: The interplay of language, lifestyle, and flora and fauna in Yanbaru’s Oku village) pp. 101-103

Anna Wiemann

Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan: Tokyo after Ten pp. 103-106

Karen A Shire

Shinchiku ga osuki desu ka?: Nihon ni okeru jūtaku to seiji (How do you like new houses? Housing and politics in Japan) pp. 106-108

Makoto Saito

Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima pp. 109-112

Beata Bochorodycz

Food Safety After Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk pp. 112-114

Stephanie Assmann

Nihon no kaigo: Keizai bunseki ni motozuku jittai haaku to seisaku hyōka (The Japanese Long-Term Care: Understanding the Current Status and Policy Evaluation Based on Economic Analysis) pp. 114-117

Ryoko Morozumi

Kōsei keizaigaku to keizai seisakuron no taiwa: Fukushi to kenri, kyōsō to kisei, seido no sekkei to sentaku (Interactions Between Welfare Economics and Economic Policy: Well-Being and Rights, Competition and Welfare, Design and Social Choice of Institutions) pp. 117-120

Kohei Kamaga

The Changing Japanese Labor Market pp. 120-122

Hiroaki Miyamoto

Purofesshonaru rōdō shijō: Sukiru keisei/chingin/tenshoku no jittai bunseki (The Professional Labour Market: An Analysis of the Actual Condition of Vocational Skill Formation, Wages and Job Transfers) pp. 123-125

Shuhei Naka

Kaiken no ronten (Issues of Constitutional Reform) pp. 125-127

Christian G Winkler

Sosho to senmonchi: Kagaku gijutsu jidai ni okeru saiban no yakuwari to sono henyō (Litigation and Expertise: The Evolving Role of Courts in the Era of Science and Technology) pp. 128-131

Takeshi Akiba

Dokkinhō shinhanketsu no hō to keizaigaku: Jirei de yomitoku Nihon no kyōsō seisaku (Antitrust Law and Economics: Competition Policy Cases in Japan) pp. 131-133

Koki Arai

‘New and Enduring Dual Structures of Employment in Japan: The Rise of Non-Regular Labor, 1980s–2010s’. Social Science Japan Journal, 20(1): 9-36 pp. 135-136

Andrew Gordon