Contemporary Japan

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Isaac Gagni

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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

Volume 33, issue 2, 2021

Message from the managing editor pp. 147-147

Isaac Gagné

Crime prevention in a low-crime nation: an enquiry into Japanese bōhan initiatives pp. 148-168

Christoph Schimkowsky

Media representation of an imagined imperial community: Digital media reports in Japan at the dawn of the Reiwa era and Emperor Naruhito’s ascension to the throne pp. 169-200

Shinobu Anzai

Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain: Representing Japan in Punch Magazine, 1852-1893 pp. 201-224

Amy Matthewson

Was Fidel Castro’s Cuba rescued by the Yankees from Japanese aggression? A very special view of the Pacific War pp. 225-242

Gerhard Krebs

Watsuji on nature: Japanese philosophy in the wake of Heidegger pp. 243-248

Hans Peter Liederbach

Review of Karl Haushofer und die OAG: Deutsch-japanische Netzwerke in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Karl Haushofer and the German East Asiatic Society: German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century) pp. 248-250

Adam Cathcart

Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world pp. 250-253

Barbara Holthus

Living transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes over roots pp. 253-256

Suma Ikeuchi

Rethinking Japanese feminisms pp. 256-259

Jasmin Rückert

Branding Japanese food: from Meibutsu to Washoku pp. 259-261

Simon Paxton

Review of the story of Japan’s Ohmi merchants: The precept of Sanpo-yoshi pp. 261-263

Dylan Scudder

Tanaka Kōtarō and world law: Rethinking the natural law outside the west pp. 263-265

Kei Uno

Volume 33, issue 1, 2021

Message from the editor pp. 1-2

Franz Waldenberger

Staying connected: Effects of online platforms on transnational family relations and social capital pp. 3-23

Rumika Suzuki Hillyer

War memories and Japanese citizens’ views toward the self-defense forces pp. 24-40

Satoshi Machida

Japanese national identity and the positioning of English as opportunity or obstruction pp. 41-56

Damian J. Rivers

Uniformity or polarization? The nuclear power debate in Japanese newspapers and political coalitions, 1973–2014 pp. 57-122

Tobias Weiss

Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the history and philosophy of science in Japan pp. 123-137

Hansun Hsiung

Soka Gakkai’s human revolution: The rise of a mimetic nation in modern Japan pp. 138-141

Mark Teeuwen

The Anime Boom in the United States: lessons for global creative industries pp. 141-143

Eyal Ben-Ari

The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional baseball in modern Japan pp. 143-146

Lee Thompson

Volume 32, issue 2, 2020

Message from the Managing Editor pp. 149-149

Isaac Gagné

Picturing translocal matters in a mobile world: Photography as a method of ethnographic research at a Japanese gathering in Berlin pp. 150-173

Julia Gerster and Natalia Morokhova

Tabunka Kyōsei without immigration policy: The role of centers for international exchange and their challenges pp. 174-196

Viktoriya Kim and Philip Streich

Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth pp. 197-217

Jennifer M. McGuire

The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school: the role of classtime in the broad curriculum pp. 218-239

Sam Bamkin

Area studies and the disciplines: Japanese Studies and anthropology in comparative perspective pp. 240-261

Eyal Ben-Ari

The self-defense forces and postwar politics in Japan pp. 262-265

William L. Brooks

Review of Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times: A profile of modern Japan pp. 265-267

Christian Tagsold

Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk pp. 267-269

Cornelia Reiher

Das Atombombenmuseum Hiroshima: Erinnern jenseits der Nation (1945-1975) pp. 269-272

Sonja Hülsebus

Marketcraft: How governments make markets work pp. 272-275

Jonathan Krautter

Volume 32, issue 1, 2020

Message from the editor pp. 1-1

Franz Waldenberger

Governing death and dying in Japan and its colonies – From state control to self-optimization pp. 2-5

Juljan Biontino, Dorothea Mladenova and Celia Spoden

Changes in funerary rites and burial practices in Modern Korea (1876–1945) pp. 6-24

Juljan Biontino

Graveyard geomancy in Korea under Japanese rule – Focusing on the 1930s pp. 25-42

Ri-Hye Han

The “improvement of funeral ceremonies” movement and the creation of “modern” Japanese subjects in Taiwan during Japanese rule pp. 43-62

Chizuru Tainaka

Deciding one’s own death in advance: Biopower, living wills, and resistance to a legislation of death with dignity in Japan pp. 63-82

Celia Spoden

Governing through kodokushi. Japan’s lonely deaths and their impact on community self-government pp. 83-102

Nils Dahl

Optimizing one’s own death: The Shūkatsu industry and the enterprising self in a hyper-aged society pp. 103-127

Dorothea Mladenova

Smartphones versus NHK? Mobilization strategies of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement under Abe’s restrictive media policy pp. 128-140

Anna Wiemann

Intimacy and reproduction in contemporary Japan pp. 141-144

Nora Kottmann

An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network pp. 145-147

Florian Purkarthofer

Erratum pp. 148-148

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