Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 14, issue 2, 2011

Cosmopolitan Nation-Building: The Institutional Contradiction and Politics of Postwar Japanese Education pp. 125-144

Hiro Saito

Explaining the Impact of Japan's Educational Reform: Or, Why Are Junior High Schools So Different from Elementary Schools? pp. 145-163

Peter Cave

Defining and Interpreting Absence from School in Contemporary Japan: How the Ministry of Education Has Framed School Non-attendance pp. 165-187

Katsunobu Shimizu

Different Faces, Different Spaces: Identifying the Islanders of Ogasawara pp. 189-212

David Chapman

Creating the ‘Multicultural Coexistence’ Society: Central and Local Government Policies towards Foreign Residents in Japan pp. 213-231

Hardeep Singh Aiden

Changes in the Socio-economic Position of Zainichi Koreans: A Historical Overview pp. 233-245

Bumsoo Kim

Increasing Gaps between Immigration Policies and Outcomes in Japan: The Responsibility of Researchers in International Migration Studies pp. 247-252

Keiko Yamanaka

Pitfalls of Representation: Using the New Woman to Criticize the Good Wife, Wise Mother pp. 253-258

Craig Colbeck

Itō Hirobumi to Kankoku Tōchi (Itō Hirobumi and Japanese Rule in Korea) pp. 259-261

Kazuto Sakamoto

Umi no Fugōno Shihonshugi: Kitamae-sen to Nihon no Sangyōka (The Capitalism of Sea Barons: Kitamae Ships and the Industrialization of Japan) pp. 261-264

Naofumi Nakamura

Hikaku Keizai Hattenron—Rekishiteki Apurōchi (Comparative Analysis of Economic Growth: A Historical Approach) pp. 264-267

Yasuo Takatsuki

Gendai Nihon Nogyon no Seisaku Katei (Japanese Agriculture Today and the Policy-making Process) pp. 268-271

Yoshihisa Godo

Inove-shon no Soshutsu: Monozukuri o Sasaeru Jinzai to Soshiki (Industrial Innovations Made Easy: How and Why Human and Organizational Interaction Renovated Modern Japanese Enterprises) pp. 271-274

Hiroshi Shimizu

Chugoku Nihon no Jidōsha Sangyō Sapuraiya Shisutemu (The Parts Supplier Networks of the Chinese and Japanese Automobile Industries) pp. 274-277

Tomoo Marukawa

Ningen ni Kaku ha Nai: Ishikawa Tsuneo to 2000 Nendai no Rōdō Shijō (Don't Rank People: Tsuneo Ishikawa and the Labor Market in the 2000s) pp. 277-280

Keiko Yoshida

Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting, and Strategies pp. 280-284

Patricia G. Steinhoff

Minji Sosho/Shikko/Hasan no Kin-gendai-shi (The Modern and Contemporary History of Civil Procedure, Civil Execution and Insolvency) pp. 284-286

Shusuke Kakiuchi

Furanchaizu Keiyakuron (Franchise Law and Franchise Agreements) pp. 286-289

Hiroyasu Ishikawa

Changing Politics in Japan pp. 289-292

Rieko Kage

The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power and Ethics in Japanese Politics pp. 292-295

Hiroko Takeda

Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias pp. 296-298

Debra J. Occhi

‘Kindai Okinawa’ no Chishikijin: Shimabukuro Zenpatsu no Kiseki (An Intellectual of ‘Modern Okinawa’: The Trajectory of Shimabukuro Zenpatsu) pp. 299-302

Masamichi S. Inoue

Modan Gāru to Shokuminchiteki Kindai: Higashi Ajia ni okeru Teikoku, Shihon, Jendā (Modern Girls and Colonial Modernity) pp. 302-306

Hiroko Matsuda

Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan pp. 306-309

Yuka Tsuchiya

Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis pp. 309-312

Megumi Doshita

Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity pp. 312-314

Keiichi Sato

Announcing the Winner of the 2010 ISS/OUP Prize pp. NP

Gregory W. Noble

Volume 14, issue 1, 2011

Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Communications Work: Meiji Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective pp. 1-20

Janet Hunter

Public Opinion and the Press: Transnational Contexts of Early Media and Communication Studies in Prewar Japan, 1918–1937 pp. 21-38

Fabian Schäfer

Parental Attitudes Toward Public School Education in Tokyo pp. 39-54

Jun Yamashita and Satoshi Okada

Is There Life after Work for Japan? Political ‘Work–Life Balance’ Research Begins to Address the Hard Questions pp. 55-61

Tuukka Toivonen

Explaining the Japanese–German Relationship: The Appeal and Difficulty pp. 63-67

Tetsuya Sakai

Shiryō de Yomitoku Nanbara Shigeru to Sengo Kyōiku Kaikaku (Nanbara Shigeru and Postwar Education Reform: A Documentary Study) pp. 69-72

Noboru Sekiya

Sengo Seishin no Seijigaku: Maruyama Masao, Fujita Shōzō, Hagiwara Nobutoshi (Political Theory of the Postwar Ethos) pp. 72-75

Yuri Kono

Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory pp. 75-78

Hiro Saito

The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan pp. 78-80

Jong-moon Ha

Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan pp. 80-82

Christopher Gerteis

Monozukuri no Gūwa: Fo-do kara Toyota e (The Parable of Monozukuri: From Ford to Toyota) pp. 83-86

Koichi Shimokawa

Jūtaku Seisaku no Doko ga Mondai ka: ‘Mochiie Shakai’ no Tsugi o Tenbō suru (Identifying Problems in Housing Policy: The Future of the ‘Homeowner Society’) pp. 86-89

Iwao Sato

Managing in the Modern Corporation: The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan pp. 89-92

Ken'ichi Ando

Jyakunen Hiseiki Koyō no Shakaigaku: Kaisō, Jenda-, Gurobaruka (The Sociology of Irregular Youth Employment: Class, Gender, Globalization) pp. 92-95

Colin S. Smith

Gendai Nihon no Seikatsu Hosho Shisutemu (The Contemporary Japanese Livelihood Security System) pp. 95-98

Karen A. Shire

Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan: Established and Emerging Repertoires pp. 98-102

Yoshiko Konishi

Dancing With the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa pp. 102-105

Matthew Allen

Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan pp. 105-108

James E. Roberson

Immigration and Citizenship in Japan pp. 108-111

Soo im Lee

Girl Reading Girl in Japan pp. 111-114

Kaori Yoshida

Supōtsu Kansengaku: Nekkyō no Stēji no Kōzō to Imi (Studies in Sport Spectating: The Structure and Meaning of the Frenzied Stage) pp. 114-117

Lee Thompson

Asia's Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan pp. 117-121

Hiroyuki Hoshiro

Seifu Kisei to Sofuto Rō (Soft Law on Regulation) pp. 121-123

Keigo Fuchi