Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2026

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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Volume 35, issue 2, 2023

Message from the managing editor pp. 171-172

Isaac Gagné

Introduction to special section: ‘Gender, family and work in the 21st century: Challenges and transformations’ pp. 173-174

Glenda S. Roberts

The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan pp. 175-196

Kimio Itō and Allison Alexy

Autonomy and responsibility: Women’s life and career choices in urban Japan pp. 197-213

Vincent Mirza

The work, family and care nexus in Paris and Tokyo: Gender equality and well-being among urban professionals pp. 214-247

Glenda S. Roberts and Hiroko Costantini

Redesigning What is National: The Politics of Education and the New Moral Education Initiative in Globalizing Japan pp. 248-269

Kazuya Fukuoka

Robotic devices and ICT in long-term care in Japan: Their potential and limitations from a workplace perspective pp. 270-290

Gabriele Vogt and Anne-Sophie L. König

Urban migrants in rural Japan: Between agency and anomie in a post-growth society pp. 291-293

Antonia Miserka

Education and social justice in Japan pp. 293-297

Peter Cave

Censorship in Japan pp. 297-299

Alexandra Hambleton

Volume 35, issue 1, 2023

Message from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Between dream and contention pp. 3-15

David Chiavacci and Iris Wieczorek

The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon? pp. 16-34

Paul O’Shea and Sebastian Maslow

Online political communication about the Tokyo Olympics pp. 35-54

Jonathan Lewis

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From a “safe pair of hands” to a corrupt pair of claws pp. 55-57

Jules Boykoff

The capitalist realism of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games pp. 58-72

Yoshifusa Ichii

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the removal of migrants pp. 73-74

Toake Endoh

“I want to bring this light to those in despair” – the Tokyo 2020 torch relay and the creation of Olympic legacies pp. 75-93

Andreas Niehaus

Protesting legacies: Anti-Olympic movements in Japan before and after Tokyo 2020/1 pp. 94-116

Sonja Ganseforth

Akira and the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and 2020/21: Reading the games through manga and anime—reading manga and anime through the games pp. 117-135

Christian Tagsold

How the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were embedded in urban planning documents: The enforcement of a metropolitan strategy in the Bay Area pp. 136-157

Alexandre Faure

Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo pp. 158-161

Sabine Frühstück

How a reverse sankin kōtai will change Japan – how to simultaneously aim for work reform and regional revitalization pp. 161-163

Susanne Klien

Drawing the sea near: Satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa pp. 163-166

Sarah Bijlsma

Cosmopolitan rurality, depopulation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in 21st-century Japan pp. 166-169

Sebastian Polak-Rottmann

Volume 34, issue 2, 2022

Message from the managing editor pp. 125-126

Isaac Gagné

Continuity and change 10 years after 3.11: Processes and dynamics in state-society relations pp. 127-135

Wiemann Anna, Florentine Koppenborg and Tobias Weiss​

Radiation moms’ organizational survival for a decade: A shift from advocacy to non-advocacy activities pp. 136-156

Ayaka Löschke

Left-libertarian values and post-Fukushima social movements: Analyzing newcomers to protests in Japan pp. 157-186

Keiichi Satoh

Japan’s Disaster Memorial Museums and framing 3.11: Othering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in cultural memory pp. 187-209

Julia Gerster and Elizabeth Maly

Rethinking Japan’s depopulation problem: Reflecting on over 30 years of research with Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture and the potential of SMART Governance pp. 210-227

Norio Okada

Family planning and life planning in contemporary Japan: The “active pursuit of pregnancy” (ninkatsu) phenomenon and its stakeholders pp. 228-244

Isabel Fassbender

Family-run universities in Japan: Sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030 pp. 245-247

Ulrich Teichler

Spannungen im Japanischen Kaiserhaus: Prinzen als Oppositionelle in Krisen-, Kriegs- und Besatzungszeit 1930-1951 (Tensions in the Japanese imperial house: Princes as opposition members in the period of crisis, war and occupation 1930-1951), by Gerhard Krebs, OAG Iudicium Verlag, 2021 pp. 248-251

Ernst Lokowandt

Gender and the Koseki in contemporary Japan: Surname, power, and privilege pp. 252-255

Anna Lughezzani

Sacred heritage in Japan pp. 255-258

Ernils Larsson

Transpacific correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s black studies pp. 259-262

Michio Arimitsu

Volume 34, issue 1, 2022

Message from the editor pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

Japan’s employment system and human resource management – coping with increasing adjustment pressures pp. 3-12

Parissa Haghirian

The deepening divide In Japanese employment: The increasing marginalization of contract workers as explained by path dependence, vested interests, and social psychology pp. 13-41

Patricia (Tish) Robinson, Catherine Sibala, Kiyohiko Ito and Vicki L. Beyer

Working the shopping mall: Labour shortages and the dualities in Japan’s labour economy pp. 42-57

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle

Employment of senior workers in Japan pp. 58-86

Philippe Debroux

Mutual learning between Japanese managers and foreign subordinates: Enablers for middle-up-down management under role definition flexibility at Japanese headquarters pp. 87-105

Kenta Koyama

The political history of modern Japan: Foreign relations and domestic politics pp. 106-108

Jeremy A. Yellen

Kulturen der Katastrophenberichterstattung – Eine Interviewstudie zur Fukushima-Krise in deutschen und japanischen Medien (Cultures of catastrophe-coverage – an interview study of the Fukushima crisis in the German and Japanese media) pp. 108-111

Frank Rövekamp

Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan pp. 112-114

Nora Kottmann

Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident pp. 114-117

William Farge

Making Xavier’s dream real: Vernacular writings of catholic missionaries in modern Japan pp. 118-121

Simon Hull

The heavenly land and the land of the rising sun: Historical linkages, security cooperation and strategic partnership pp. 121-122

Astha Chadha

Disruptions of daily life: Japanese literary modernism in the world pp. 123-124

Angela Yiu