Social Science Japan Journal

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kenneth Mori McElwain

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Volume 13, issue 2, 2010

Introduction: A Special Focus on Shrinking Regions pp. 183-185

Peter Matanle

Coming Soon to a City Near You! Learning to Live ‘Beyond Growth’ in Japan's Shrinking Regions pp. 187-210

Peter Matanle and Yasuyuki Sato

The Shinkansen's Local Impact pp. 211-225

Christopher P. Hood

Depopulation and Financial Collapse in Yūbari: Market Forces, Administrative Folly, or a Warning to Others? pp. 227-240

Philip Seaton

The Study of Hope in Kamaishi pp. 241-247

Christopher S. Thompson

Japan's State–Civil Society Relations at Multiple Levels of Analysis pp. 249-254

Yuko Kawato

‘Ekotaun’ ga Chiiki Burando ni naru Jidai (An Era When ‘Eco-Towns’ Will Have Become Regional Brands) pp. 255-257

Ken Ōhori

Ideology and Christianity in Japan pp. 258-261

David Mervart

Numazu Heigakkō no Kenkyū (A Study of Numazu Military Academy) pp. 261-264

Hiroki Nakano

Kindai Seishigyō no Koyō to Keiei (Employment and Management in the Modern Silk Reeling Industry) pp. 264-267

Janet Hunter

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes pp. 267-269

Takenobu Yuki

Rōdō wa Shinsei nari, Ketsugō wa Seiryroku nari: Takano Fusatarō to Sono Jidai (Labor is Sacred, Unity is Strength: The Life and Times of Takano Fusatarō) pp. 269-273

Andrew Gordon

Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy pp. 273-276

Takashi Kitaura

Japan's Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History pp. 276-278

Jun Otahara

Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space pp. 278-281

Yuko Ogasawara

Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm pp. 281-284

Jesper Edman

Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan pp. 284-286

Koshi Endo

Nihon no Fubyōdō wo Kangaeru: Shōshi-Koreika Shakai no Kokusai Hikaku pp. 287-290

James M. Raymo

Nīzu Chūshin no Fukushi Shakai e—Tōjisha Shuken no Jisedai Fukushi Senryaku (Towards a Needs-Based Welfare Society—Next Generation Individual Autonomy Welfare Strategies) pp. 290-293

HeeSook Park and Akira Yonezawa

Wakamono no Kaigo Ishiki: Oyako Kankei to Jenda- Fukinkō (Young Adults' Attitudes toward Caregiving: Parent-child Bonds and Gender Inequality) pp. 293-296

Yoku Kado

Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites pp. 296-298

Susan Orpett Long

Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Finance in Japan pp. 299-300

Jun Saito

Kōteki Tōkei no Taikei to Mikata (The System and Interpretation of Public Statistics) pp. 300-302

Ulrich Möhwald

East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current Features and a Vision for the Future pp. 302-305

Tom Ginsburg

From the Editor pp. NP

Gregory W. Noble

Volume 13, issue 1, 2010

Announcing the Winner of the 2009 ISS/OUP Prize pp. i-ii

Hiroshi Ishida

Introduction: Income Inequality, Social Exclusion and Redistribution pp. 1-3

Mari Osawa

Social Exclusion and Earlier Disadvantages: An Empirical Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Japan pp. 5-30

ABE Aya K.

Japan as a Stratified Society: With a Focus on Class Identification pp. 31-52

Sawako Shirahase

Liberal Preferences and Conservative Policies: The Puzzling Size of Japan's Welfare State pp. 53-67

Shogo Takegawa

Facilitating Spontaneity: The State and Independent Volunteering in Contemporary Japan pp. 69-93

Simon A. Avenell

Confucian Morals and the Making of a ‘Good Wife and Wise Mother’: From ‘Between Husband and Wife there is Distinction’ to ‘As Husbands and Wives be Harmonious’ pp. 95-113

Sumiko Sekiguchi

From Seniority to Performance Principle: The Evolution of Pay Practices in Japanese Firms since the 1990s pp. 115-135

Harald Conrad

Who Cares about Care Work in Japan? pp. 137-141

Kaye Broadbent

Back on the Agenda: Decentralization and the Japanese Political Economy pp. 143-148

Andrew Dewit and Takehiko Ikegami

Japanese Workplaces in Transition: Employee Perceptions pp. 149-151

Yuko Ogasawara

Ushinawareta Ba o Sagashite: Rosutojenerēshon no Shakaigaku (Lost in Transition: Youth, Education and Work in Postindustrial Japan) pp. 152-154

Reiko Kosugi

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture pp. 154-156

Hideki Endo

Hanryū no Shakaigaku: Fandamu, Kazoku, Ibunka Kōryū (Sociology of the Korean Boom: Fandom, The Family, and Intercultural Exchange) pp. 156-159

Mariko Nagoshi

Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics pp. 159-162

Etsuko Kato

Gaikō no Chikara (The Power of Diplomacy) pp. 162-165

Tatsuya Nishida

Shōgen: Miyazawa Daiichiji (1986-1988) Tsūka Gaikō (Documenting the First Round of Miyazawa's Currency Diplomacy) pp. 166-168

Kenji Aramaki

Shinsedai Chitekizaisannhō no Sōsei (Genesis of Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the New Era) pp. 168-171

Hisao Shiomi

Sofutorō no Kiso Riron (Theory of Soft Law) pp. 171-174

Takashi Iida

Kimu wa Naze Sabakaretanoka: Chōsenjin BC-kyū Senpan no Kiseki (Why Was Kim Tried?: The Trajectory of Korean Class BC War Criminals) pp. 174-176

Yuma Totani

Meiji Chihō Jichi Taisei no Kigen—Kinsei Shakai no Kiki to Seido Henyō (The Origin of the Meiji Local Autonomy System: The Crisis of Pre-Modern Society and Its Institutional Transformation) pp. 177-179

Hikaru Tanaka

Tokugawa-kōki no Gakumon to Seiji: Shōheizaka Gakumonjojusha to Bakumatsu Gaikō Hen'yō (Politics and Academia in Late Tokugawa Japan: Shōheizaka Confucians and Diplomatic Transformation) pp. 179-182

Yoshikazu Nakada

Editorial pp. NP

Hiroshi Ishida