Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 15, issue 2, 2012

The Winner of the 2011 ISS-OUP Prize pp. 177-178

Gregory W. Noble

Explaining the Politicization of Monetary Policy in Japan pp. 179-200

Jennifer Holt Dwyer

Japan’s Rescue of the IMF pp. 201-218

Carin L. Holroyd and Bessma Momani

A Comparative Analysis of Biotechnology Startups between Japan and the US pp. 219-237

Kazuyuki Motohashi

Real Men Don’t Hold Their Liquor: The Complexity of Drunkenness and Sobriety in a Tokyo Bar pp. 239-254

Paul Christensen

Information, Re-education and Re-orientation Policies in the US Occupation of Japan pp. 255-260

Maho Toyoda

Japan’s New InequalityIntersection of Employment Reforms and Welfare Arrangements pp. 261-264

Hiroshi Ono

Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring pp. 264-267

Jennifer Holt Dwyer

The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan pp. 267-270

Masayuki Tanimoto

Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan pp. 270-273

Yasuo Takatsuki

Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society pp. 273-276

Haruya Sakamoto

Social Networks and Japanese DemocracyThe Beneficial Impact of Interpersonal Communication in East Asia pp. 276-278

Daniel P. Aldrich

Democratic Reform in JapanAssessing the Impact pp. 278-281

Gregory W. Noble

Popular Democracy in JapanHow Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics pp. 281-284

Mari Miura

A Turning Point of Women, Families and Agriculture in Rural Japan (Tenkanki ni aru Nihon Nōson Josei to Kazoku) pp. 285-287

Tamae Sugihara

Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan pp. 288-291

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870-1930Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building pp. 291-294

Ann Marie L. Davis

Nihon Saigunbi e no Michi—1945–1954 (The Path Toward Japan’s Rearmament 1945–1954) pp. 294-297

Hideki Uemura

Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State pp. 297-300

Munehiro Miwa

Seikan Sukuramu-gata Riidaashippu no Hōkai (The Breakdown of Government Leadership based on the Politico-Bureaucratic Scrum) pp. 300-304

Margarita Estévez-Abe

Toshi Kōtsū no Seiritsu (The Formation of Urban Public Transportation) pp. 304-307

Noboru Hirayama

An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts pp. 307-309

Matt Gillan

Gendai nihon no Shiritsu shogakko jukenParentocracy ni motozuku Kyoikusenbatsu no Genjo pp. 310-313

Hiroki Igarashi

Volume 15, issue 1, 2012

From the Editor pp. 1

Gregory W. Noble

Entrepreneurship in Japan’s ICT Sector: Opportunities and Protection from Japan’s Telecommunications Regulatory Regime Shift pp. 3-30

Kenji E. Kushida

Not by Education Alone: How Young Adults’ Employment Status Is Determined by Employment Environments and Family Backgrounds pp. 31-52

Takehisa Shinozaki

Housing Histories and Intergenerational Dynamics in Tokyo pp. 53-74

Misa Izuhara and Ray Forrest

Globalism and Liberal Expansionism in Meiji Protestant Discourse pp. 75-92

Yosuke Nirei

Consistent Conservatism in Changing Times: An Analysis of Japanese Conservative Intellectuals’ Thought pp. 93-110

Christian G. Winkler

Genshiryoku Hatsuden o Dō Suru ka: Nihon no Enerugī Seisaku no Saisei ni Mukete(How to Handle Nuclear Power Generation: Towards the Reconstruction of Japanese Energy Policy) pp. 111-114

Shin-ichi Hanada

The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions pp. 114-117

Ethan Scheiner

Jiyūminshutō no Tanjō: Sōsai Kōsen to Soshiki Seitōron (The Birth of the Liberal Democratic Party: Party Presidential Elections and Theories of Party Organization) pp. 117-120

Tetsuya Murai

Seitōkan Idō to Seitō Shisutemu (Party Switching and Party Systems) pp. 120-122

Shiro Sakaiya

In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy pp. 123-125

Kazuto Suzuki

Jōhōhō no Kōzō: Jōhō no Jiyū, Kisei, Hogo (The Architecture of Information Law: Freedom, Regulation, and Protection of Information) pp. 126-129

Eiji Kawabata

Chiiki Shakai ni okeru Josei to Seiji (Women and Politics in Local Society) pp. 129-132

Robin M. Leblanc

Glocalization, Chiiki Saisei Anata ga Shuyaku da: Nōshōkō Renkei to Koyō Sōshutsu (In the Revitalization of Local Regions, You Play the Main Role: Joint Ventures between Agriculture, Commerce and Manufacturing and the Creation of Employment) pp. 132-135

Philip Seaton

Zaitakukaigo ni okeru Kōreisha to Kazoku: Toshi to Chihō no Hikakubunseki (Elderly People and Families in Home Care: A Comparative Analysis of Cities and Provincial Areas in Japan) pp. 135-138

Yayoi Saito

Nihonjin no Kaisō Ishiki (Class Identification of the Japanese) pp. 138-140

Carola Hommerich

Crime in Japan: Paradise Lost? pp. 141-142

Koichi Hamai

Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan pp. 143-146

Nana O. Gagné

Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan: An Interactive Perspective pp. 146-149

Robert Moorehead

Reimagining Japanese Education: Borders, Transfers, Circulations, and the Comparative pp. 149-152

Hiro Saito

Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan pp. 153-156

Emma E. Cook

Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road pp. 156-159

Robert Goree

‘Shūsha’ Shakai no Tanjō: Howaito Kara- kara Buru- Kara e (Transition of the ‘Corporate’ Society: From White to Blue-collar Jobs) pp. 159-161

Osamu Umezaki

Defure Hanten no Seichō Senryaku (Strategies for Growth by Countering Deflation) pp. 162-164

Yuji Genda

Chihō kara no Sangyō Kakumei: Nihon ni okeru Kigyō Bokkō no Gendōryoku (The Industrial Revolution from the Regions: The Driving Force behind the Rise of Business in Japan) pp. 164-167

Martin Dusinberre

Shisha-tachi no Sengoshi: Okinawa Senseki o Meguru Hitobito no Kioku (A Postwar Ethnography of the War Dead in Okinawa) pp. 167-170

James E. Roberson

Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 pp. 170-173

David L. Howell

Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2,600th Anniversary pp. 173-176

Sandra S. Collins