Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 19, issue 2, 2016

An International Comparison of Hope and Happiness in Japan, the UK, and the US pp. 153-172

Yuji Genda

From Lahures to Global Cooks: Network Migration from the Western Hills of Nepal to Japan pp. 173-192

Dipesh Kharel

Debates Over Constitutionalism in Recent Japanese Constitutional Scholarship pp. 193-202

Noboru Yanase

Rebuilding Representative Democracy pp. 203-207

Reiko Oyama

The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism pp. 209-211

César Castellvi

Zenin keiei: Jiritsu bunsan inobeshon kigyo, seiko no honshitsu (The Management by Everyone: The Essence for the Success of Autonomous Distributed Innovation) pp. 211-215

Masahiro Kotosaka

Keizaigaku no Uchu (Universe of Economics) pp. 215-218

Dai Zusai

The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community pp. 218-221

James E. Roberson

Chiho shometsu: Tokyo ikkyoku shūchū ga maneku jino kyūgen (The Disappearance of the Region: The Rapid Population Decline brought on by Mono-Polar Concentration in Tokyo) pp. 221-224

Young-Jun Lee

Jūkūkan no keizaishi: Senzenki Tokyo no toshi keisei to shakuya, shakuma shijo (Economic History of Dwelling Space: City Formation and the Rented House/Rented Room Market in Tokyo during the Pre-war Period) pp. 224-228

Kuniaki Saito

Nihon no Jutaku Shijo to Kakei Kodo (Housing Markets and Household Behavior in Japan) pp. 229-230

Keiichi Sato

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Life Laborer pp. 231-233

Anne Allison

The Changing Role of Law in Japan: Empirical Studies in Culture, Society and Policy Making pp. 233-235

Takashi Iida

Who Rules Japan? Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process pp. 236-238

Ichiro Ozaki

Bengoshi no waku raifu baransu: Jendasa kara mita kyaria keisei to kaji ikuji buntan (Lawyers’ Work–Life Balance: Career Formation and Division of Housework and Childcare From the Perspective of Gender Difference) pp. 238-240

Kyoko Ishida

Yasumaru Yoshio Shū Zen-Rokkan (Selected Writings of Yasumaru Yoshio, Six-Volume Collection) pp. 240-243

Tsuneo Yasuda

Kaiko no seijishi (A Political History of Seaports) pp. 244-247

Shunsuke Nakazawa

Transnational Faiths: Latin-American Immigrants and Their Religions in Japan pp. 247-250

Robert Moorehead

Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series) pp. 250-254

Isaac Gagné

Kendo: Culture of the Sword pp. 254-258

Wolfram Manzenreiter

Volume 19, issue 1, 2016

Commemorating 20 Years since the Founding of SSJJ: Creation and EvolutionThe Winner of the 2015 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-3

Gregory W. Noble

Looking Backward and Looking Forward pp. 5-11

Hiroshi Ishida

Research on Modern Japanese Society and Social Science Japan Journal pp. 13-17

Akira Suehiro

Launching a New Kind of Journal in Japan pp. 19-20

Walter Hatch

A Tribute to Our Founding Editor-in-Chief pp. 21-22

Glenda Roberts

What Makes SSJJ the Leading Journal of Japanese Studies? pp. 23-24

Miki Matoba and Toyoshi Onji

Helping to Build a Peace-Loving, Democratic Nation, Leading the Way in Social Science Research on Japan—The Institute of Social Science and Social Science Japan Journal pp. 25-32

Mari Osawa

The Failure of the Democratic Party of Japan: The Negative Effects of the Predominant Party System pp. 33-58

Ryūnoshin Kamikawa

Option-Splitting Effects in Poll Regarding Japan’s Right to Exercise Collective Self-Defense pp. 59-69

Ayumi Yamada and Ji Young Kim

The Struggle Against Hate Groups in Japan: The Invisible Civil Society, Leftist Elites and Anti-Racism Groups pp. 71-83

Daiki Shibuichi

Toward a Responsive Two-Party System? A Review of ‘Series: Japanese Politics’ pp. 85-97

Gregory W. Noble

Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime pp. 99-101

Kazuhiro Takii

Shusho Seiji no Seido Bunseki: Gendai Nihon Seiji no Kenryoku Kiban Keisei (The Japanese Premiership: An Institutional Analysis of the Power Relations) pp. 102-104

Yoshikuni Ono

Growing Democracy in Japan: The Parliamentary Cabinet System Since 1868 pp. 104-107

Ian Neary

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan pp. 107-109

Emma Dalton

Jenda Kuota: Sekai no Josei Giin wa Naze Fuetanoka (Gender Quotas in Comparative Perspectives: Understanding the Increase in Women Representatives) pp. 110-112

Yuki Tsuji

Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan pp. 113-115

Yosuke Sunahara

Juries in the Japanese Legal System: The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy pp. 116-119

David T. Johnson

Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship: Koseki, Identification and Documentation pp. 119-122

Emiko Saito

Japan’s Aid: Lessons for Economic Growth, Development and Political economy pp. 122-125

Marie Söderberg

Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalization pp. 125-128

Yuji Genda

Jizoku kanona shakai hoshoe (Towards Sustainable Social Security) pp. 128-131

Kensuke Miyazawa

Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance pp. 131-133

Naoki Kasuga

Capital in the Twenty-First Century pp. 133-139

Susumu Cato

Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering and Sobriety in Daily Life pp. 139-142

Gordon Mathews

Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives pp. 142-145

Glenda S. Roberts

Shoshika-ron:Naze mada kekkon, shussan shiyasui kuni ni naranai no ka. (Why is it still hard to marry and have children in Japan? A critique of declining birthrate policies) pp. 145-149

Reiko Arami

Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan pp. 149-152

Tom Gill

Volume 18, issue 2, 2015

Ontological Security and Japan’s Ideological Debate over Compensating Wartime ‘Comfort Women’ pp. 146-161

Naoko Kumagai

Could Predatory Pricing Rules Substitute for Antidumping Laws in the Proposed China–Japan–Korea Free Trade Agreement? pp. 163-192

Ying Bi and Steven van Uytsel

The Decision for Shadow Education in Japan: Students’ Choice or Parents’ Pressure? pp. 193-216

Steve R. Entrich

Neighborhood and Individual Factors Associated with Survey Response Behavior: A Multilevel Multinomial Regression Analysis of a Nationwide Survey in Japan pp. 217-232

Ryoji Matsuoka and Tadahiko Maeda

Guilt, Persecution, and Resurrection in Nagasaki: Atomic Memories and the Urakami Catholic Community pp. 233-240

Gwyn McClelland

Japan’s Maritime Security Strategy: The Japan Coast Guard and Maritime Outlaws pp. 241-244

Tetsuo Kotani

Nichibei dōmei no seidoka: Hatten to shinka no rekishi katei (Institutionalization of the Japan–US Alliance: A History of Its Development and Evolution) pp. 244-246

Takuma Nakashima

Sengo Ryūkyū no Kōmuin Seidoshi: Beigun Tōchika ni okeru ‘Nihonka’ no Shosō (A History of the Civil Service System in the Postwar Ryukyus: Its ‘Japanization’ under US Military Rule) pp. 246-249

Akiko Izumo

Nihongata haigaishugi: Zaitokukai, gaikokujin sansēken, higashi ajia chisēgaku (The Japanese-Model of Xenophobic Exclusionism: Zaitokukai, Resident Foreigner Enfranchisement and East Asian Geopolitics) pp. 250-253

Youngmi Lim

International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalization and Risk pp. 254-256

Izumi Mori

Japanese Religions and Globalization (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy) pp. 257-260

Isaac Gagné

A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century pp. 260-263

Laura Hein

Keizaigaku wa hitobito o kōfuku ni dekiruka (Can Economics Contribute to Well-Being?) pp. 263-266

Masayuki Otaki

Senzenki Hokubei no Nihon Shōsha: zaibei sesshū shiryō ni yoru kenkyū (Japanese Trading Companies in Prewar North America: Research Based on Documents at U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) pp. 266-269

Takeshi Abe

Mazā mashin no yume: Nippon kōsaku kikai kōgyōshi (The Dream of Mother Machines: The History of the Japanese Machine Tool Industry) pp. 270-273

Jun Suzuki

Jimintō seiji no hen’yō (The Transformation of LDP Politics) pp. 273-276

Brian Woodall

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster: Investigating the Myth and Reality pp. 276-279

Kenji E. Kushida

Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline pp. 279-282

Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw

Inequality in the Workplace: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea pp. 282-285

Myoung-Jung Kim

Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics pp. 285-288

John C. Maher

Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History pp. 288-291

Philip Seaton

The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling pp. 291-294

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan pp. 294-297

Mitsuho Ikeda

Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge pp. 297-300

Karen Nakamura

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures pp. 300-302

Laura Miller

From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea pp. 302-305

Kazuyo Yamane

Volume 18, issue 1, 2015

The Winner of the 2014 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 1-2

Gregory W. Noble

Who Deserves Citizenship? An Experimental Study of Japanese Attitudes Toward Immigrant Workers pp. 3-22

Tetsuro Kobayashi, Christian Collet, Shanto Iyengar and Kyu S. Hahn

Reconsidering the Japanese Industrial Revolution: Local Entrepreneurs in the Cotton Textile Industry during the Meiji Era pp. 23-44

Naofumi Nakamura

Traditional Gender Norms and Women’s Political Participation: How Conservative Women Engage in Political Activism in Japan pp. 45-61

Kimiko Osawa

Decades not Lost, but Won: Increased Employment, Higher Wages, and More Equal Opportunities in the Japanese Labour Market pp. 63-88

Georg Blind and Stefania LOTTANTI von Mandach

Kenryoku ikō: nani ga seiji o antei saseru no ka (Power Shift: What Keeps the Political System Stable?) pp. 89-91

Yosuke Tezuka

Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transformation and Governance pp. 92-94

Takayoshi Uekami

Seitō-Shiji no Riron (The Theory of Party Identification) pp. 94-97

Masao Matsumoto

Nihon ni Okeru Seiji e no Shinrai to Fushin (Political Trust and Distrust in Japan) pp. 97-100

Takahiro Kimura

Ōsaka: daitoshi wa kokka o koeru ka (Osaka: Can Localities Be Free from Central Control?) pp. 100-103

Purnendra C. Jain

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate Abolition? pp. 103-106

Koichi Hamai

Sekai Seigi Ron (On Global Justice) pp. 106-109

Hirohide Takikawa

Shirīzu sengo Nihon shakai no rekishi, 1. Kawaru shakai, kawaru hitobito: 20-seiki no naka no sengo Nihon (The Social History of Postwar Japan, Vol. 1. Changing Society, Changing Individuals: Japan’s Postwar 20th Century) pp. 109-112

Akimasa Miyake

Senshu Bōei kokufuku no senryaku: Nihon no anzenhoshō o dō toraeru ka (A Strategy for Overcoming Defensive Defense: How Can Japan Achieve Security?) pp. 112-115

Paul Midford

Reconciling Enemy States in Europe and Asia (International Relations and Development Series)War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War IISugisaranu kako to no torikumi: Nihon to Doitsu (Confronting the Past That Does Not Pass: Japan and Germany) pp. 115-121

Ivo Plsek

Okinawa henkan to nichibei anpo taisei (The Reversion of Okinawa and the Japan-US Security Alliance) pp. 121-124

Yasuko Kouno

Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa pp. 124-127

Tristan Ivory

Business Law in Japan, Cases and Comments: Intellectual Property, Civil, Commercial and International Private Law: Writings in Honour of Harold Baum pp. 127-129

Shuya Hayashi

Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy pp. 129-131

Seki Obata

Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 pp. 131-135

Peter Wynn Kirby

Precarious Japan pp. 135-138

Tom Gill

Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End (Shakaiteki Hikikomori: Owaranai Shishunki) pp. 138-141

Sachiko Horiguchi

Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan pp. 141-144

Robin Kietlinski