Articles

This section of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies publishes academic research articles in the social sciences on contemporary Japan.  All articles have been been passed for publication according to a strict process of double-blind peer review. Please click on the icons below or scroll down the page and click on the article's title to be taken to the full text.

Articles in 2008

6. The 'Honne-Tatemae' Dimension in Japan's Foreign Aid Policy: Overseas Development Aid Allocations in Southeast Asia
FURUOKA, Fumitaka and KATO, Iwao
Posted: 15 November 2008

5. The Japan Foundation in China: An Agent of Japan's Soft Power?
Vyas, Utpal
Posted: 15 August 2008

4. Narrating the Law in Japan: Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate
McArthur, Ian
Posted: 15 August 2008

3. Transforming Security Politics: Jun'Ichiro Koizumi and the Gaullist Tradition in Japan
Envall, H.D.P.
Posted: 20 July 2008

2. Critical Thinking and Modern Japan: Conflict in the Discourse of Government and Business
Rear, David
Posted: 4 March 2008

1. Representations of Parenting and Gender Roles in the Shōshika Era: Comparisons of Japanese and English-Language Parenting Magazines
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 14 January 2008

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Articles in 2007

5. Who Owns Culture? Negotiating Folk Tradition at the Nishinomiya Ebisu Shrine
Ashmore, Darren-Jon
Posted: 15 October 2007

4. A Comparison of Social Capital Between Parents in Single and Two Parent Families in Japan
Bassani, Cherylynn
Posted: 5 July 2007

3. Are We There Yet? Travelling Toward the Self in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 5 July 2007

2. Desperate Housewives in Modern Japanese Fiction: Three Novels by Sawako Ariyoshi
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 14 May 2007

1. Japan's Foreign Aid Policy Towards Malaysia: Case Studies of the New Miyazawa Initiative and the Kelau Dam Construction
FURUOKA, Fumitaka, LO, May Chiun, and KATO, Iwao
Posted: 1 March 2007

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Articles in 2006

3. Teachers and Tea-Fetchers - What the Future Holds for Japan's Junior College Graduates: Female student perceptions of the status, purpose, and value of a Junior College education
Walker, Patricia
Posted: 7 December 2006

2. Deprofessionalisation of Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Japan: A Socio-Industrial Study of a Religious Profession
Horii, Mitsutoshi
Posted: 14 March 2006

1. Double-Gearing Between Japanese Banks and Insurance Companies: Reasons and Future Prospects
Tran, Bich Hanh
Posted: 18 January 2006

7. Pursuing a Major Power Role: Realism with the US and Idealism with Europe in Japan's Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena
Posted: 6 October 2005

6. The Residency and Lives of Migrants in Japan Since the Mid-1990s
Ishii, Yuka
Posted: 19 August 2005

5. Change in Script Usage in Japanese: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Government White Papers on Labor
Tomoda, Takako
Posted: 19 August 2005

4. Investigating the Cognition Behind the Intercultural Interactions of Four Japanese Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Walker, Natasha
Posted: 19 August 2005

3. Kiritake Masako's Maiden's Bunraku: 竹政子乙女文楽
Ashmore, Darren-Jon
Posted: 17 June 2005

2. Overcoming the Challenge of Regulatory Reform: Contemporary Japan-EU Relations
Cardwell, Paul James
Posted: 25 April 2005

1. Japanese Multinational Corporations and the Export of Pollution: The Case of Bukit Merah
Furuoka, Fumitaka and Lo, May Chiun
Posted: 25 April 2005

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Articles in 2004

2. Collective Identity Creation and Local Revitalization in Rural Japan: The Complex Role of the Local Newspaper
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 15 September 2004

1. Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 19 April 2004

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Articles in 2003

1. Social Capital Theory in the Context of Japanese Children
Bassani, Cherylynn
Posted: 8 May 2003

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Articles in 2002

2. Globalization and Women's Labour Activism in Japan
Bishop, Beverley
Posted: 6 December 2002

1. The Nanjing Incident: Recent Research and Trends
Askew, David
Posted: 4 April 2002

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McLelland, Mark J.
Posted: 10 October 2001

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