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Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures? Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Tatsuya Iseki, Sohei Shigemura, Shun Ikeda, Hideo Ishima
To manage the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese government has cooperated with multiple actors, such as experts, prefectural governments, and medical professionals, who generally attract limited attention in non-crisis times. While cooperation with such actors allows the central government to mobilize knowledge and utilize resources it does not have, such collaboration could diffuse the responsibility
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Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Nobuo HARUNA
It is well known that during the 1930s and the 1940s intellectuals in Japan, an island state, devoured geopolitical theories constructed in a typical ‘land power’, Germany. Not only did this fad contradict the geographical reality of Japanese territory. It was also at odds with Japan’s contemporary national identity as a maritime state. This article highlights intellectual path dependence as the key
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Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Alvaro Dominguez
We rely on satellite data to study the spatial distribution of air pollutants and economic activity for 1,650 municipalities of all four main islands of Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Shikoku. Specifically, we analyze atmospheric particulate matter and ozone concentrations, as well as population density, accessibility to cities, and night lights for the above islands. We then make use of principal
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Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Rumika Suzuki Hillyer
Drawing from fieldwork conducted from September 2020 to August 2021, this qualitative, interview-based research note explores how Japan’s Brazilian food industry was uniquely affected by the COVID pandemic and the Japanese government’s counter-virus measures. Most Brazilian food establishments in Japan are churrascaria, which include a buffet-style setting and waiters who carve skewered grilled meat
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Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19 Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Satoshi Araki
Recent research argues that the availability of flexible work arrangements (FWA) is unequally distributed among workers. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically transformed the way we work, including the abrupt introduction of telework. However, we know little about how workers are stratified in telework usage under the global crisis and how it differs from pre-pandemic times. This study leverages
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Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Bjol R FRENKENBERGER
This article focuses on seed-stage start-up fundraising in the ‘village’ (mura), an assemblage of actors in Tokyo’s start-up scene characterised by first-time founders in their 20s or early 30s and their supporters. I analyse how efforts to secure funding unfold between founders and venture capitalists (VCs). Anthropological explorations of start-ups are rare, and my research is based on one of the
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Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Michael FISCH
How have massive concrete walls become thinkable as resilient infrastructure for an extreme nature, and what will collective life become in the shadow of such concrete resilience? These questions hold increasing importance as cities and nations throughout the world contemplate the construction of giant concrete barriers to resist the forces of extreme weather and rising sea levels. This article turns
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A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Tiziana CARPI,Airo HINO,Stefano Maria IACUS,Giuseppe PORRO
Abstract This study presents for the first time the SWB-J index, a subjective well-being indicator for Japan based on Twitter data. The index is composed by eight dimensions of subjective well-being and is estimated relying on Twitter data by using human supervised sentiment analysis. The index is then compared with the analogous SWB-I index for Italy in order to verify possible analogies and cultural
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Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Philippe ORSINI,Remy MAGNIER-WATANABE
Abstract Cultural diversity has gained increased validation as a source of greater performance in the context of globalization. This paper examines whether there is an optimum number of foreign coworkers in order to maximize the perceived benefits and minimize the perceived threats of cultural diversity at work. Using a questionnaire survey of 572 Japanese, we found that for perceived benefits of cultural
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Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Corey Wallace
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Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Steven R Reed
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Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Yujin Woo
Abstract Does the Japanese public consider shared ancestry the most essential condition for inclusion of an individual as a member of their country’s citizenry? This paper empirically assesses how the public in the ethnic nation views citizenship acquisition criteria. The originally conducted survey based on a conjoint format in Japan (2015) displays interesting results. Overall, Japanese people most
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Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Izuru Makihara
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The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 MCELWAIN K.
Since 2002, the Institute of Social Science (ISS) of the University of Tokyo has partnered with Oxford University Press (OUP) to award the ISS–OUP Prize to the author of the best article published in Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) each year. The prize includes ¥25,000 in books and a year’s subscription to SSJJ. With the author’s consent, the winning paper may be translated into Japanese and published
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Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-12-12 PERSON J.
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, by Baraka ThomasJolyon. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 336 pp., $97.50 cloth (ISBN: 9780226618791)
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Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 CHRISTOPHER S.
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds, by WadhwaMegha. London: Routledge, 2021, 214 pp., £96.00 cloth (ISBN: 9780367896836)
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Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 COOK E.
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, by KochGabriele. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, 248 pp., $28.00 (ISBN: 9781503611344)
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Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 HOLTHUS B.
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan, edited by TakashiHorie, HikaruTanaka, and KiyotoTanno. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2021, 244 pp., $41.95 paper (ISBN 9781920901851)
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Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History) Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 TAMAKI T.
Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History), by KanKimura. shobōChikura, 2020, 336 pp., ¥3,850 (ISBN 978-4-8051-1207-6).
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Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Taka-aki ASANO
Do the policy preferences expressed through political participation represent the citizens as a whole? Previous studies argue that there is no ideological bias in voting participation in Japan. However, previous studies have only analyzed Japan up to 2010, and it is unclear whether ideological bias was consistently absent in voting participation in the 2010s. In the 2010s, ideological issues, such
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Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?) Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 EDER-RAMSAUER A.
Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?), by MasahiroZenkyō. Tokyo: Yūhikaku, 2018, 272 pp., ¥4,290 (ISBN 978-4-641-14927-4).
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Education and Social Stratification in South Korea Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 JUNG J.
Education and Social Stratification in South Korea, by AritaShin. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2020, 304 pp., ¥13.200 cloth (ISBN 97841305720)
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Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 ASSMANN S.
Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry, by HallJenny. London: Bloomsburry, 2020, 272 pp., £26.99 paper (ISBN 9781350095427)
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Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 WIRTH C.
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination, by WatanabeAtsuko. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, 265 pp., $84.99 cloth (ISBN 9783030043988)
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Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Yusaku HORIUCHI, Nana OISHI
While most existing research attributes contemporary Japanese emigration to the pursuit of a better lifestyle, recent qualitative studies point out that concern about country risks is a significant driver . We explore Japan’s brain-drain potential and factors shaping Japanese skilled workers’ interest in emigrating to other countries based on our original survey with an experimental component. We first
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Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 HEINRICH S.
Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change, edited by ChiavacciDavid and LechevalierSébastien. London: Routledge, 2019, 132 pp., £115.00 cloth (ISBN 9781138606944)
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Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 GROVER B.
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire, by KishidaYuka Hiruma. London: Bloomsbury, 2020, 288 pp., £115.00 cloth (ISBN 9781350057852)
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Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 SCHULZE K.
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities, by BuzanBarry and GohEvelyn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 365 pp., $99.00 cloth (ISBN 9780198851387)
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Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 STRAUSZ M.
Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept, by SakanakaHidenori, edited and translated by EldridgeRobert D. and LeonardGraham B.. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 286 pp., $115.00 (ISBN 978-1-7936-1493-3)
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Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Steven R REED
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held power from 1955 until 1993. How did it manage to do so? In 1994 a political reform resulted in competitive elections but, starting in 2012, the LDP regained its predominant position, winning three consecutive landslide victories. How did it manage to do this even after the reform? In this paper I argue that a system of ‘party-organization patronage’, in which
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Okinawa heiwaron no ajenda: ikari wo chikara ni suru shiza to hōhō (An Agenda for Okinawan Peace Studies: Viewpoints and Methodologies for Transforming Anger into Power) Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 MASON R.
Okinawa heiwaron no ajenda: ikari wo chikara ni suru shiza to hōhō(An Agenda for Okinawan Peace Studies: Viewpoints and Methodologies for Transforming Anger into Power), edited by EiichiHoshino, JunShimabukuro, TetsumiTakara, KosuzuAbe, YōichiSatoi and TakeshiYamaguchi. Kyoto: Horitsu Bunkasha, 2018, 211 pp., ¥ 2,500 (ISBN 978-4-589-03909-5)
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The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Ti-Ching Peng, Chun-Chieh Wang
The widely applied hedonic regression approach for the relationship between property prices and housing attributes is subject to assumptions and specifications of models as well as the availability and content of second-hand official data. In a cross-disciplinary spirit, this study employs machine learning techniques to examine hedonic apartment prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area of Japan based
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Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Linus HAGSTRÖM, Thao-Nguyen HA, Dan ÖBERG
The existing research on Japanese security focuses mainly on the nation state and conceives of male elites as the key bearers of relevant knowledge about the phenomenon. This article problematizes these biases by zeroing in on women’s everyday-oriented perspectives, which fall outside the scope of security politics as traditionally conceived. More specifically, it analyzes the rich material provided
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The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945 Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-06-05 Michiko SUZUKI
The previously unstudied records of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) narrate the heroic tale of the Red Cross personnel who carried out the organisation’s emergency response in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Aid workers began relief activities on the day of the bombings, while many themselves were suffering from injuries and radiation
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Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Paul CHRISTENSEN
Possession and use of illegal drugs carry harsh penalties in Japan if an individual is apprehended by authorities. These severe legal restrictions stigmatize drug use while failing to eliminate narcotics from Japan. This makes individual efforts to take on recovery difficult, as admissions of past use are often met with fear and disdain. Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Center (DARC) is a Japanese organization
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Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 ARONSSON A.
Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy, by LukácsGabriella. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, 248 pp., $25.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4780-0648-0)
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Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 YELLEN J.
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War, edited by BrecherW. Puck and MyersMichael W.. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2019, 244 pp., $68.00 (ISBN-13: 9780824879679)
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The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Sae OKURA
This paper examines the political underrepresentation of people with disabilities in the Japanese Diet and the conditions that allow their participation in the body. The paper addresses the following three research questions: (a) how are people with disabilities represented in contemporary Japan and the EU member states, and what are the differences between them?; (b) why have people with disabilities
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In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 ODA E.
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire, by AzumaEiichiro. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019, 368 pp., $75.00 cloth (ISBN 9780520304383)
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Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 SHAW M.
Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by WrayHarry and SugiharaSeishiro. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019, 323 pp., $115.00 (ISBN 978-1498593212)
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The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Wolfram MANZENREITER
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan, by KellyWilliam W.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018, xvi, 314 pp., $34.95 (ISBN 9780520299429)
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Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Eiji OGUMA
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding, edited by KushnerBarak and MuminovSherzod. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 246 pp., $103.50 (ISBN 978-1-3501-2705-0)
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Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area) Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Yosuke SUNAHARA
Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area), by SawaiMinoru. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2019, 340 pp., ¥6,600 (ISBN 978-4-641-16549-6)
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Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Seok-Won LEE
Shimizu Ikutarō (1907–1988) is one of the most controversial postwar Japanese intellectuals. His transition from the icon of the Anpo protests to an advocate of a nuclear Japan has been considered an intellectual conversion (tenkō). Instead of revisiting the notion of conversion, this study shows that his wartime thoughts—bottom-up nationalism in particular—continued to influence Shimizu’s postwar
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The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Junichi NAGAI
The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia, by StevensCarolyn S.. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 180 pp., £115.00 (ISBN 978-1-138-69210-7)
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Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Andrea E MURRAY
Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar, by WatanabeChika. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019, 239 256 pp., $68.00 cloth. (ISBN 978-0-824-87526-8)
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Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Andrea PRESSELLO
Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia, by MiyagiTaizo. London: Routledge, 2018, 134 pp., £120.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-138-10372-6)
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Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Linda HASUNUMA
Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline, by LehenyDavid. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018, 246 pp., $39.95 (ISBN 978-1-501-72907-2)
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Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Andrew L OROS
Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan, by HanssenUlv. London: Routledge, 2020, 222 pp., £92.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-138-33170-9)
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Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Jon MORRIS
Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace, by BeneschOleg and ZwigenbergRan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 374 pp., £90.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-108-48194-6)
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Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Susanne KLIEN
Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan, by KavedžijaIza. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 196 pages, $49.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-812-25136-4)
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Vertical and Horizontal Networks Revisited: Exploring Their Effects on Attitudes and Advocacy Toward Nuclear Energy Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Satoh K, Weiss T.
AbstractAfter the Fukushima accident, Japan experienced a drastic decline in nuclear energy use because of resistance from civil society. This civil society activity can be explained by the strong social capital forged in Japanese communities. By contrast, the classical (and some recent) literature has argued that Japan’s dense network of associations and groups functions to disseminate conservative
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Losing Steam: Why Does Japan Produce So Little Geothermal Power? Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 HYMANS J.
AbstractJapan has long faced energy insecurity due to its extreme dependence on energy imports. Why, then, has Japan failed to exploit its huge domestic geothermal energy resources, which could provide up to 10% of the country’s electricity needs? This article argues that local interests empowered by national policy have been the main obstacle to expansion of geothermal power production in Japan since
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The Winner of the 2020 ISS-OUP Prize Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 SCHOPPA L.
The editors of Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) at the Institute of Social Science (ISS) of the University of Tokyo have joined forces with Oxford University Press (OUP) to award the ISS–OUP Prize to the author of the best article published in SSJJ each year. The prize includes ¥25,000 in books and a year’s subscription to SSJJ. With the author’s consent, the winning paper may be translated into
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Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 NOBLE G.
Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth, by HolroydCarin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, 256 pp., $60.00 (ISBN 978-1-4875-0222-5)
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Climate Change Policy: Can New Actors Affect Japan’s Policy-Making in the Paris Agreement Era? Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 KAMEYAMA Y.
AbstractThis article examines changes in Japan’s policies related to climate change, focusing on three notable events that could have significantly altered Japan’s decisions on climate change: (a) the hosting of the Third Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997, (b) the Fukushima Daiichi
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Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Sawako SHIRAHASE
Japan has the world’s most aged population. To examine this aging population from a theoretical perspective of social stratification, we focused on household structure, income structure, and economic well-being, including both disposable income and savings. Two main topics are discussed in this paper: first, the relationship between the aging population and income inequality, focusing on changes in
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Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Paul MIDFORD
Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century, by OrosAndrew L.. New York: Columbia University, 2017, 320 pp., $32.00 paper (ISBN: 9780231172615).
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Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan’s Social Control Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Ayaka LÖSCHKE
Japan’s pre-emptive approach to far-right demonstrations has had a significant impact. Far-right street protests accompanied by hate speech have been rapidly decreasing, although Japan has not introduced penalties. Why did the Japanese approach have such an effect? While the regulation of hate speech in Japan has been discussed mainly in legal studies, Japan’s use of administrative measures against
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Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan Social Science Japan Journal (IF 0.478) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Ellen B RUBINSTEIN
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan, by Armstrong-HoughMari. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 186 pp., $27.95 (ISBN 9781469646688)