Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 21, issue 2, 2018

The Nativist Backlash: Exploring the Roots of the Action Conservative Movement pp. 175-192

Tom GillProfessor

Shot Through with Democracy: Japan’s Postwar Myths and the 1948 Hanshin Education Incident pp. 193-217

Amin GHADIMIPhD

Revisionism, Ultranationalism, Sexism: Relations Between the Far Right and the Establishment Over the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue pp. 219-238

Tomomi Yamaguchi

Responding to Hate in Contemporary Japan: Fragmenting Factors Obstructing Effective Ethnic Advocacy pp. 239-259

Youngmi Lim

Fights on the Right: Social Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Postwar Cohorts of the Japanese Activist Right pp. 261-283

Nathaniel M Smith

A Proper Prime Minister: Appointive Responsibility in Japanese Cabinet Scandals pp. 285-304

Jens Sejrup

On the Distributional Effect of Japan’s Equal Employment Opportunity Act on the Gender Wage Gap pp. 305-328

Juan Nelson MARTÍNEZ Dahbura

Labor Issues as International Affairs: Japan and the International Labour Organization from 1919 to 1938 pp. 329-344

Bernard THOMANNProfesseur

Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region pp. 345-347

Gordon Mathews

Kenpō to yoron: Sengo nihonjin wa kenpō to dō mukiatte kita no ka (The Constitution and Public Opinion: How Have Postwar Japanese Viewed the Constitution?) pp. 348-350

Christian G Winkler

Imin Ukeire no Kokusai Shakaigaku: Senbetsu Mekanizumu no Hikaku Bunseki (International Sociology of Immigration Acceptance: Comparative Analysis of Selection Mechanism) pp. 351-354

Jie Zhang

Hijōji taiō no shakai kagaku: Hōgaku to Keizaigaku no kyōdō no kokoromi (Social Science of Emergency Response: Joint Study in Jurisprudence and Economics) pp. 354-356

Hiroshi Gunji

Nihon ni kurasu roshia-jin josei no bunka jinruigaku: Ijū, kokusai kekkon, jinsei-zukuri (Russian Women in Japan: Migration, Marriage, and Life Crafting) pp. 357-359

Miloš Debnár

Idō wo ikiru: Firipin ijū josei to fukusū no mobiritī (Living in Motion: Filipino Migrant Women and their Multiple Mobilities) pp. 360-363

Megumi Hara

Hitodebusoku nanoni naze chingin ga agaranainoka (Why Wages Do Not Increase Despite the Labor Shortage) pp. 363-365

Emiko Usui

Political Survival and Yasukuni in Japan’s Relations with China pp. 365-367

Ming Wan

Sumātoguriddo ekonomikusu: Fīrudojikken, kōdōkeizaigaku, biggudēta ga hiraku ebidensu-seisaku (Smart Grid Economics: Evidence-based Policy Created through Field Experiments, Behavioral Economics, and Big Data) pp. 368-371

Toshifumi Kuroda

Kenkō seisaku no keizai bunseki: Reseputo deeta ni yoru hyōka to teigen (An Economic Analysis of Health and Long-term Care Policy in Japan: Evaluations and Policy Discussion Based on Medical and Long-term Care Claims Data) pp. 371-373

Yoko Ibuka

Shūgyō kikai to hōshū kakusa no shakaigaku: Hiseiki koyō, shakai kaisō no nichi-kan hikaku (The Sociology of Employment Opportunity and Wage Gaps: Non-standard Employment and Social Hierarchy in Japan and Korea) pp. 374-376

Koji Takahashi

Nidai seitōsei no hōkai to seiken tantō nōryoku hyōka (The Breakdown of the Two-Party System and Voters’ Evaluation of Party Competence) pp. 377-379

Yukio Maeda

Mainasu-kinri seisaku: Sanjigen-kinyū-kanwa no kōka to genkai (Negative Interest Rate Policy: Effects of ‘Qualitative and Quantitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate’ and its limitation) pp. 379-382

Kengo Nutahara

Nihon no jinji o kagaku suru: Ingasuiron ni motozuku dēta katsuyō (The Science of Japanese Personnel Practices: Causal Inference from Personnel Data) pp. 382-385

Takao Kato

Happiness and the Good Life in Japan pp. 385-388

Sonja Dale

Volume 21, issue 1, 2018

The Winner of the 2017 ISS–OUP Prize pp. 1-3

Gregory W NOBLEEditor-in-Chief

Introduction: SSJJ Special Issue on Migration pp. 5-7

Jackie F Steele

No Time for Church: School, Family and Filipino-Japanese Children’s Acculturation pp. 9-25

Alec R Lemay

The Surprising Longevity of Kawasaki’s Representative Assembly for Foreign Residents: An Institutionalist Account pp. 27-43

Stephen DAYProfessor

‘Worklife Pathways’ to Singapore and Japan: Gender and Racial Dynamics in Europeans’ Mobility to Asia pp. 45-65

Helena Hof

Brokers and the Organization of Recruitment of ‘Global Talent’ by Japanese Firms—A Migration Perspective pp. 67-88

Harald CONRADSasakawa Lecturer and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle

An Immigration Policy by Any Other Name: Semantics of Immigration to Japan pp. 89-102

Glenda S ROBERTSProfessor

Toward a Comprehensive Estimate of the Number of Foreign Workers in Japan pp. 103-115

Matthias Hennings and Scott Mintz

Immigrants in a Non-Immigrant Society: Recent PhD Dissertations on Migration in Japan pp. 117-127

Gracia LIU-FARRERProfessor

New Policies for New Residents: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond pp. 129-132

Joselito Ranara Jimenez

Japan: The Precarious Future pp. 132-136

Yoichi Funabashi

Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation During Economic and Demographic Stagnation pp. 136-138

Jun Kobayashi

Better Must Come: Existing Homelessness in Two Global Cities pp. 139-141

Paul Christensen

Shimin o yatowanai kokka: Nihon ga kōmuin no sukunai kuni e to itatta michi (A State without Civil Servants: Japan’s Public Sector in Comparative Perspective) pp. 141-144

Yosuke Sunahara

Songen to mibun: Kenpō teki shii to ‘nihon’ to iu mondai (Dignity and Status: Constitutional Thought and the “Japan Problem”) pp. 144-147

Yuichi Nishimura

Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law pp. 147-148

Hironao Kaneko

Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: From Jurors to Lay Judges pp. 149-152

Jonathan Marshall

National Police Reserve: The Origin of Japan’s Self Defense Force pp. 152-155

Akihiro Sado

Shakai kagaku to shite no nihon gaikō kenkyū: Riron to rekishi no tōgō wo mezashite (Research on Japanese Diplomacy as Social Science: Toward Integration of Theory and History) pp. 155-158

Mayumi Itayama

Umi o wataru kikansha: Kindai nihon no tetsudō hatten to gurōbaruka (Trading Locomotives: The First Globalization and the Development of Japan’s Railways, 1869–1914) pp. 158-160

Masaki Nakabayashi

Kōkōshūshokushidō no shakaigaku: ‘Nihongata’ ikō o saikō suru (Sociology of Senior High School Job Placement Guidance: Reconsideration of the ‘Japanese Type’ Transition) pp. 161-163

Vincent B Lesch

Moral Education in Japan: Values in a Global Context pp. 163-166

Katherine TEGTMEYER Pak

License to Play: The Ludic in Japanese Culture pp. 166-168

Joy Hendry

Unmarried Women in Japan: The Drift into Singlehood pp. 168-170

Lynne Nakano

Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death pp. 170-173

Gavin H Whitelaw

Volume 20, issue 2, 2017

Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris: Answering Questions Without Questioning Answers pp. 163-181

Miori Nagashima and Piers R Williamson

Neither a Monolith, nor a Parrot pp. 183-201

Claudia J Kim

Right On? The LDP’s Drift to the Right and the Persistence of Particularism pp. 203-224

Christian G Winkler

Politics On-screen: Has NHK News Become Politician-Centered? pp. 225-242

Yue Yin

Tracing the Local Origins of Farmland Policies in Japan—Local-National Policy Transfers and Endogenous Institutional Change pp. 243-260

Hanno Jentzsch

Why Does Japan’s Social Democratic Party Survive? An Organizational Perspective pp. 261-278

Fumi Ikeda

Does Promoting Elderly Employment Hurt Young Japanese Workers? (‘Koyō no ba ni okeru jakunen-sha to kōrei-sha’ (Young and old in places of employment)) pp. 279-285

Ayako Kondo

Seiji-tetsugaku-teki kōsatsu: riberaru to sōsharu no aida (Papers on Political Philosophy: Between Liberal and Social) pp. 287-290

Hajime Inuzuka

International Law and Japanese Sovereignty: The Emerging Global Order in the 19th Century pp. 290-293

Tomoko Okagaki

Jūsōteki-chiiki to shite no ajia: Tairitsu to kyōzon no kōzu (Asia as a Multi-layered Region: In Search for Co-existence in Conflicts) pp. 293-296

Takashi Terada

Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea pp. 296-299

Christian Wirth

Ekkyōsha no seijishi (The Political History of Border Crossers: Japanese Emigration and Colonization in the Asia-Pacific) pp. 300-303

Nobuo Haruna

Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy pp. 303-306

Kyohei Yamada

Zaimushō to Seiji: ‘Saikyō Kanchō’ no Kyozō to Jitsuzō (The Ministry of Finance and Japanese Politics: Virtual and Real Images of ‘The Most Powerful Ministry’) pp. 306-310

Ryūnoshin Kamikawa

Kenpō Kaisei to wa nani ka: Amerika Kaiken-shi kara kangaeru (What Are Constitutional Changes: A History of Constitutional Amendments and Other Constitutional Changes in the United States) pp. 310-313

Noboru Yanase

Kigyō tōchi no hō to keizaigaku: Hikakuseido bunseki no shiten de miru gabanansu (Law and Economics of Corporate Governance: A Comparative Institutional Analysis) pp. 313-316

Manabu Matsunaka

Kakudai suru chokusetsu tōshi to nihon kigyō (Increases in Foreign Direct Investment and Japanese Firms) pp. 317-319

Toshiyuki Matsuura

Japan’s Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda pp. 319-323

Izumi Ohno

Jinzai no kokusai idō to inobēshon (International Migration of Highly Skilled Workers and Innovation) pp. 323-325

Kentaro Nakajima

Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan pp. 325-328

Helena Hof

Embedded Racism: Japan’s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination pp. 328-331

Robert W Aspinall

Nippon kaigi no kenkyū (A Study of the Japan Conference) pp. 331-334

Daiki Shibuichi

Volume 20, issue 1, 2017

Introduction: SSJJ Special Issue on Non-Regular Employment pp. 1-4

Gregory W. Noble

SSJJ in the World: A Warm Welcome to Our New Regional Champions pp. 5-6

Jackie F. Steele

The Winner of the 2016 ISS–OUP Prize pp. 7-8

Gregory W. Noble

New and Enduring Dual Structures of Employment in Japan: The Rise of Non-Regular Labor, 1980s–2010s pp. 9-36

Andrew Gordon

Explaining the Increase in Female Mayors: Gender-Segregated Employment and Pathways to Local Political Leadership pp. 37-57

Yuki Tsuji

Reforming the Regular Employment System: Toward a New Norm of Job-Specific Employment Contracts pp. 59-72

Kotaru Tsuru

Declining Self-Employment in Japan Revisited: A Short Survey pp. 73-93

Ryo Kambayashi

Womenomics, ‘Equality’ and Abe’s Neo-liberal Strategy to Make Japanese Women Shine pp. 95-105

Emma Dalton

Enter the Workers: Japan’s Changing Childcare Controversy pp. 107-117

Charles Weathers

The Politics of Work-Family Policies: Comparing Japan, France, Germany and the United States pp. 119-122

Mary C. Brinton

Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty pp. 122-125

Tomomi Yamaguchi

Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan pp. 125-127

David Chapman

Making We the People: Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea pp. 127-130

Christian G. Winkler

Tōchi no jōken: Minshutō ni miru seiken unei to tōnai tōchi (Party Government and Party Governance: The Case of the Democratic Party of Japan) pp. 131-133

Daniel M. Smith

Nihon no rōkaru demokurashī pp. 133-137

Kyohei Yamada

Kiki to koyō: Saigai no rōdō keizaigaku pp. 137-139

Tomohiko Inui

Taika Nijūikkajō to wa nan datta no ka: Daiichiji sekai taisen to nicchū tairitsu no genten (What is the Historical Meaning of the 21 Demands? WWI and the Origin of Sino-Japanese Conflict) pp. 140-144

Shin Kawashima

Japan’s Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon pp. 144-147

Matake Kamiya

Sensō ni Kōsuru: Kea no rinri to heiwa no kōsō (Against War: The Ethics of Care and a Vision for Peace) pp. 147-150

Midori Hayashi

Nihon no TPP to kōshō sanka no shinjitsu: Sono seisaku katei no kaimei (The True Dynamics of Japan’s Participation in the TPP Negotiation: Analysis of its Policymaking Process) pp. 150-153

Saori N. Katada

Sengo kasen gyō sei to damu kaihatsu: Tonegawa suikei ni okeru chisui, risui no kōzō tenkan pp. 153-156

Norimasa Miyoshi

Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education pp. 156-160

Yuko Nonoyama-Tarumi

Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture pp. 160-162

Robin Kietlinski