Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 22, issue 2, 2019

The Formalization of Banking Supervision in Japan and Sweden pp. 211-228

Eiji Hotori and Mikael Wendschlag

Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation: From ‘Distrust’ to the Japanese ‘Spirit’ pp. 229-246

Piers R Williamson and Miori Nagashima

Moral Education in Japan: The Disjoint Between Research on Policy and Research on Practice pp. 247-260

Sam Bamkin

Changes in Public Opinion Polling: How Newspaper Polls Gained Political Clout pp. 261-270

Yukio Maeda

Recent Debates on Public-Private Cost Sharing for Higher Education in Japan pp. 271-276

Ryuichi Tanaka

Rethinking Japan: The Politics of Contested Nationalism pp. 277-280

Wilhelm M Vosse

Shibutsuka sareru kokka: Shihai to fukujū no Nihon seiji (The Appropriated State: Dominance and Submission in Japanese Politics) pp. 280-283

Aurelia GEORGE Mulgan

Issues and Challenges in Corporate and Capital Market Law: Germany and East Asia pp. 283-286

Moritz Bälz

Nihon no josei giin: dō sureba fueru no ka (How to Increase the Number of Women in the Japanese Diet) pp. 286-289

Emma Dalton

Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima pp. 290-292

Florentine Koppenborg

Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-Emerging from Invisibility pp. 292-295

Akihiro Ogawa

Dr. Osamu Shimomura’s Legacy and the Postwar Japanese Economy pp. 295-298

Qing-yuan Sui

Global Class Japanese SMEs pp. 298-301

Gunnar Mokosch

‘Dōitsu rōdō dōitsu chingin’ no subete (All about ‘Equal Work for Equal Pay’) pp. 301-304

Charles Weathers

Koyō wa keiyaku: funiki ni makenai hatarakikata (Employment is a contract: a working style that does not give in to atmosphere) pp. 304-306

Daiji Kawaguchi

Kaiko kisei o toinaosu: kinsen kaiketsu no seido sekkei (Rethinking the Regulation of Employment Discharge: The Design of a Monetary Resolution System) pp. 306-309

John Ramseyer

Sovereignty and Status in East Asian International Relations pp. 310-312

Tomoko Okagaki

The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia pp. 312-315

Karl Gustafsson

Japan’s International Democracy Assistance as Soft Power: Neoclassical Realist Analysis pp. 315-317

Raymond Yamamoto

Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan pp. 317-320

Christopher Craig

The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan pp. 320-323

David Chiavacci

Being Young in Super-Aging Japan: Formative Events and Cultural Reactions pp. 323-326

Gordon Mathews

Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands pp. 326-329

Reiko Ogawa

Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation pp. 329-332

Shawn Bender

Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective pp. 333-335

Merry I White

Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context pp. 335-338

Björn-Ole Kamm

Cool Japan: Case Studies from Japan’s Cultural and Creative Industries pp. 338-341

Nancy Snow

Volume 22, issue 1, 2019

Thanks to the outgoing team, welcome to the incoming team pp. 1-1

Gregory W Noble

The Winner of the 2018 ISS–OUP Prize pp. 3-5

Gregory W Noble

Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 7-9

Carola Hommerich

Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan pp. 11-24

Carola Hommerich and Toru Kikkawa

Why Do the Japanese Still See Themselves as Middle Class? The Impact of Socio-structural Changes on Status Identification pp. 25-44

Naoki Sudo

The Changing Images of Japan’s Social Stratification: The Other Side of the ‘Quiet Transformation’ pp. 45-63

Hiroshi KANBAYASHIProfessor

The Vanishing ‘Mass Education Society’ pp. 65-84

Ryoji Matsuoka

Designing Jobs to Make Employees Happy? Focus on Job Satisfaction First pp. 85-107

Remy Magnier-Watanabe, Caroline F Benton, Toru Uchida and Philippe Orsini

Silent Exits: Risk and Post-3.11 Skilled Migration from Japan to Australia pp. 109-125

Nana OISHIAssociate Professor and Iori HAMADATutor

Japan’s Central Eurasian Policy: A Focus on Turkic Muslim Minorities pp. 127-149

Sinan Levent

Tōchi Kikō no Kenpō Kōsō (Constitutional Framework of the Government) pp. 151-154

Satoshi Yokodaido

The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive pp. 154-156

Jun Iio

Local Politics and National Policy: Multi-level Conflicts in Japan and Beyond pp. 157-159

Yosuke Sunahara

Who Judges? Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia and Europe pp. 160-161

Tom Ginsburg

Seiji sanka to minshu seiji (Political Participation and Democratic Politics) pp. 162-163

Kenneth Mori McElwain

Seijikeizaigaku de yomitoku seifu no kōdō: Abenomikusu no riron bunseki (The Political Economy of Government’s Choices: Theoretical Analysis on Abenomics) pp. 163-166

Yasushi Asako

Keynes’s General Theory Reconsidered in the Context of the Japanese Economy pp. 166-169

Jun-Ichi Nakamura

Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea pp. 169-172

Patricia G Steinhoff

Seiki no Sekai • Hiseiki no sekai: Gendai nihon rōdō keizaigaku no kihon mondai (The World of Regular Employees The World of Non-regular Employees: Fundamental Issues in Labor Economics in Japan Today) pp. 172-176

Ayako Kondo

Japan’s Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States: Cool Politics, Lukewarm Economics pp. 176-177

Saadia M Pekkanen

Chūgoku Seiji Kara Mita Nitchū Kankei (Japan-China Relations Through the Prism of Chinese Politics) pp. 177-179

Giulio Pugliese

Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics: Securing the Seas, Securing the State pp. 179-182

Ching-Chang Chen

Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement pp. 183-185

C Anne Claus

Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia pp. 185-189

Junichiro Koji

Okinawa-rashisa no shakaigaku: Tabunka sesshoku ryōiki no esunishiti (A Sociology of Okinawaness: Ethnicity in Encounters with Multiculturalism) pp. 189-191

Gabriele Vogt

Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity and Transnationalism in East Asia pp. 192-194

Ryan Masaaki Yokota

Kaigo shijō no keizai-gaku: Hyūman sābisu towa nanika (Managing the Human Service Market: The Case of Long-Term Care in Japan) pp. 194-197

Tadashi Sakai

Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century pp. 197-200

Elizabeth Miles

Danshi mondai no jidai?: Sakusō suru gender to kyōiku no politics (Period of Boys’ Problems?: Complicated Politics of Gender and Education) pp. 201-203

Masako Ishii-Kuntz

The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries pp. 203-206

Northrop Davis

Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club pp. 206-209

Mira Malick