Table of Contents

This section of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies lists all contributions published in ejcjs by their subject area. The list is ordered by type of publication and in reverse chronological order within each subject. Some publications cross subject boundaries and are therefore listed more than once. Please click on the subject icons below or scroll down the page and click on the orange underlined text to be taken to each contribution.

Anthropology

Articles

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

Discussion Papers

Arukihenro: Reflections on Fieldwork by a Visual Anthropologist
Mendel, Tommi
Posted: 20 July 2008

Postscript: Religion and the Secular in Japan: Problems in History, Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 22 November 2004

Dichotomies, Contested Terms and Contemporary Issues in the Study of Religion
Reader, Ian
Posted: 10 May 2004

The Religion-Secular Dichotomy: A Response to Responses
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 6 April 2004

Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology: Responding to Fitzgerald's Errors and Misguided Polemics
Reader, Ian
Posted: 3 March 2004

'Religion' and 'the Secular' in Japan: Problems in History, Social Anthropology, and Religion
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 10 July 2003

-back to top

Architecture

Book Reviews

5. Building Better Architecture in Japan
Coaldrake, William H.
Review of: Buntrock, Dana (2001) Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process: Opportunities in a Flexible Construction Culture.
Posted: 28 April 2008

-back to top

Business Studies

Articles

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

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

Discussion Papers

Abe Kobo's Woman in the Dunes as a Metaphor for Human Relations Within Japanese Companies
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 23 April 2007

The Light and Shadow of Corporate Reconstruction: Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 15 April 2006

Book Reviews

Context Dependent Success: International Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms
Review of: Keeley, Timothy Dean (2001) International Human Resource Managament in Japanese Firms: Their Greatest Challenge
Ishiguro, Kuniko
Posted: 15 September 2004

Change in Japan's New Economy: Who Will Benefit?
Review of: Blomstrom, Magnus, Byron Gangnes, and Sumner La Croix (eds.) (2001) Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century
Ferber, Katalin
Posted: 25 June 2002

Sōkaiya and Japanese Corporations
Review of: Szymkowiak, Kenneth (2002) Sokaiya: Extortion, Protection, and the Japanese Corporation
Maruko, Eiko
Posted: 25 June 2002

The Search for Remedies: Japan in the Years of Trial
Review of: Masuzoe, Yoichi (ed.) (2000) Years of Trial, Japan in the 1990s
Yamazaki, Yukiko
Posted: 25 March 2002

-back to top

Cultural Studies

Articles

Keetai Meeru: Younger People's Mobile Written Communication in Japan
Okuyama, Yoshiko
Posted: 25 February 2009

Celebrating 'Multicultural Japan': Writings on 'Minorities' and the Discourse on 'Difference'
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 5 December 2008

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

Representations of Parenting and Gender Roles in the Shōshika Era: Comparisons of Japanese and English-Language Parenting Magazines
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 3 January 2008

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

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

Discussion Papers

The Anxiety of Influence: Ambivalent Relations Between Japan's 'Mingei' and Britain's 'Arts and Crafts' Movements
Wendy Jones Nakanishi
Posted: 28 October 2008

Conference and Seminar Papers

Talk About Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture
Kenkyū
Murakami, Kyoko
Posted: 31 January 2002

Book Reviews

American Japan - Japanese America
Zaborowski, Rafal
Review of: Kelts, Roland (2006) Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S..
Posted: 22 December 2008

Rediscovering Benshi: Narration in the Japanese Silent Film Era
Review of: Dym, Geoffrey A. (2003) Benshi, Japanese Silent Film Narrators, and their Forgotten Narrative Art of Setsumei: A History of Japanese Silent Film Narration, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 9 November 2005

Japan at the Millenium: Changes and Constants in Culture and Society
Review of: Edgington, David (2003) Japan at the Millenium: Joining Past and Future
Bassani, Cherylynn
Posted: 31 October 2005

Inside the World of Japanese TV
Review of: Penn, Wm. (2003) The Couch Potato's Guide to Japan: Inside the World of Japanese TV
McAuley, T. E.
Posted: 18 February 2004

Coping with Cultural Change: Japanese Emigrants to Australia
Review of: Sato, Machiko (2001) Farewell to Nippon
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 10 July 2003

Surveying Kabuki: Classic Essays in English Language Scholarship
Review of: Leiter, Samuel L. (ed.) (2001) A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance
Coaldrake, Kimi
Posted: 5 October 2002

Film Reviews

Kamataki: Re-igniting the Fires of Youth
Review of: Kamataki (Dir: Claude Gagnon, 2005)
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 27 March 2006

-back to top

Economics

Articles

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

Discussion Papers

No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism
Kaneko, Masaru
Posted: 29 August 2001

Book Reviews

Maladies and Remedies
Ferber, Katalin
Review of: Ito, Takatoshi, Hugh Patrick and David E. Weinstein (eds) (2005) Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions.
Posted: 24 July 2007

The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policy Making
Kamikubo, Masato
Review of: Toya, Tetsuro (2003), Kinyū Biggu Ban no Seiji Keizai Gaku: Kinyū to Kōkyō Seisaku Sakutei ni okeru Seido Henka [The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policy Making].
Posted: 31 January 2007

The World of Savings
Review of: Scher, Mark J. and Naoyuki Yoshino (eds) (2004), Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of the Postal Financial Services, An East Gate Book, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Ferber, Katalin
Posted: 10 January 2006

The Sins of the Princes
Review of: Werner, Richard A. (2003), Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy
Ferber, Katalin
Posted: 16 February 2004

Japan's Use of Economic Power: Balancing Between East Asia and the West
Review of: Wan, Ming (2001) Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Nasstrom, Jens
Posted: 2 July 2003

Change in Japan's New Economy: Who Will Benefit?
Review of: Blomstrom, Magnus, Byron Gangnes, and Sumner La Croix (eds.) (2001) Japan's New Economy: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century
Ferber, Katalin
Posted: 25 June 2002

The Search for Remedies: Japan in the Years of Trial
Review of: Masuzoe, Yoichi (ed.) (2000) Years of Trial, Japan in the 1990s
Yamazaki, Yukiko
Posted: 25 March 2002

-back to top

Education Studies

Articles

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

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

Discussion Papers

Japanese Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century: The Challenge of Globalization and Internationalization
Aoki, Kumiko
Posted: 4 November 2005

A Worst Possible Beginning to University Reform: The Pressing Need to Expand the Academic Horizons of Researchers Who Embrace Peer Review
Dando, Yasuharu
Posted: 13 May 2004

Conference and Seminar Papers

The Role of Teachers as 'InterCulture' Practitioners in Teaching Japanese Culture
Nakata, Hitomi
Kenkyū
Posted: 31 January 2002

Book Reviews

Japanese Higher Education in Transition? Observing the Dynamics of Reform
Review of: Eades, J.S., Goodman, Roger and Hada, Yumiko (eds) (2005) The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education Reform: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, and Lee-Cunin, Marina (2004) Student Views in Japan: A Study of Japanese Students' Perceptions of Their First Years at University, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago and Rochdale, UK: Fieldwork Publications.
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 2 February 2006

More than Just a Few Teaching Notes About Japan
Review of: Bowring, Richard and Noel J. Pinnington (eds) (2002), Teaching about Japan in Japan: A Handbook of Approaches to Teaching about Japan to non-Japanese Students
Kolesova, Elena
Posted: 16 February 2004

Unpacking the Japanese Educational Reform Debate
Review of: Christopher P. Hood (2001) Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone's Legacy
Burnett, Bruce
Posted: 10 February 2002

-back to top

Film Studies

Articles

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

Discussion Papers

Arukihenro: Reflections on Fieldwork by a Visual Anthropologist
Mendel, Tommi
Posted: 20 July 2008

Inside the Well of Loneliness: Towards a Definition of the Japanese Horror Film
Balmain, Colette
Posted: 2 May 2006

Politically Correct Racism and the Geisha Novel: The Psychology of Sophisticated Racism Mirrors that of Ethnic Jokes
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Posted: 10 January 2006

The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 1 October 2005

Female Voices, Male Words: Problems of Communication, Identity and Gendered Social Construction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2005

Book Reviews

Keeping Things Well at Hand
Iles, Tim
Review of: Jacoby, Alexander (2008), A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors.
Posted: 14 April 2009

Context Over All: Reading Content in a Circle
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Phillips, Alastair and Stringer, Julian, eds. (2007) Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts.
Posted: 28 April 2008

The Problem of Context: The Context of Problems
Iles, Timothy
Review of: McDonald, Keiko I. (2006), Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context.
Posted: 31 January 2007

Rediscovering Benshi: Narration in the Japanese Silent Film Era
Review of: Dym, Geoffrey A. (2003) Benshi, Japanese Silent Film Narrators, and their Forgotten Narrative Art of Setsumei: A History of Japanese Silent Film Narration, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 9 November 2005

Fragile Memories
Review of: Nornes, Abé Mark (2001), Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 19 May 2005

Film Reviews

Noir's Dark Heart: Hayashi Kaizo's Hama Maiku Trilogy
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Hayashi Kaizo's Hama Maiku Trilogy (2005).
Posted: 25 February 2009

Reconfiguring History II: Terror and Tragedy
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Kanaria, (Shiota Akihiko, 2004), Distance, (Koreeda Hirokazu, 2001).
Posted: 5 December 2008

Reconfiguring History 1: War and Reaction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Warai no daigaku (University of Laughs), Hoshi Mamoru, Bokutachi no sensō (Our War), Kaneko Fumiki.
Posted: 15 November 2008

Arukihenro: Searching for the Soul of Modern Japan
Matanle, Peter
Review of: Arukihenro (Dir: Tommi Mendel, 2006).
Posted: 26 January 2008

The Narrating Camera as Ethnographer
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Sharasojyu (Dir: Kawase Naomi, 2003).
Posted: 31 January 2007

Kamataki: Re-igniting the Fires of Youth
Review of: Kamataki (Dir: Claude Gagnon, 2005)
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 27 March 2006

The Nation Collapsing Under its Own Weight: Kōshikei (Death by Hanging)
Review of: Kōshikei (Death by Hanging) (Dir: Oshima Nagisa, 1968)
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 31 October 2005

88 Roads to Somewhere: Rōdo 88: Deai no michi, shikoku e
Review of: Rōdo 88: Deai no michi, Shikoku e (Dir: Nakamura Genji, 2005)
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 31 October 2005

Black, White, and the Grey that Separates them: Rokugatsu no hebi
Review of: A Snake of June (Dir: Tsukamoto Shinya, 2002)
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 31 October 2005

-back to top

Geography

Articles

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

Discussion Papers

Creative Clustering in Urban Japan: The Case of Fukuoka
LIM, Tai Wei
Posted: 15 February 2008

The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline
Chapple, Julian
Posted: 18 October 2004

Biting the Bullet: What We Can Learn from the Shinkansen
Hood, Christopher P.
Posted: 23 May 2001

-back to top

Health and Medicine

Conference and Seminar Papers

Japanese Health Cosmology: A Study of Cancer Patients in Japan
Okamoto, Ikumi
Kenkyū
Posted: 31 January 2002

-back to top

History and Historiography

Articles

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

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

Discussion Papers

Japan's History Textbook Controversy: Social Movements and Governments in East Asia, 1982-2006
Shibuichi, Daiki
Posted: 4 March 2008

Interned Minds: Issues of Historical Interpretation in Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment
Lege, R. Paul
Posted: 15 February 2008

Anand Mohan Sahay (1898-1991): Indian Revolutionary in Japan
Goodman, Grant K.
Posted: 26 January 2008

Reviews

Picking at the Wound: Nanjing 1937-38
Leibold, James
Review of: Li, Fei Fei, Robert Sabella and David Liu (eds) (2002) Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing, and Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi (ed) (2007) The Nanking Atrocity 1937-38: Complicating the Picture.
Posted: 15 November 2008

The Accidental Pioneer: John Manjiro in Japan and the United States
Ikeda, Yoko
Review of: Kawada, Shoryo (2003) Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways: A Complete Translation of Hyoson Kiryaku(A Brief Account of Drifting Toward the Southeast), as Told to the Court of Lord Yamauchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjiro.
Posted: 15 August 2008

Lovers and Losers of Different Colours
Wright, Wendy Ella
Review of: Molasky, Michael S. (2001) The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory.
Posted: 9 October 2007

Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew
Seaton, Philip
Review of: Hadley, Gregory (2007) Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew.
Posted: 14 June 2007

Film Reviews

Reconfiguring History 1: War and Reaction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Iles, Tim
Review of: Warai no daigaku (University of Laughs), Hoshi Mamoru, Bokutachi no sensō (Our War), Kaneko Fumiki.
Posted: 15 November 2008

-back to top

International Relations

Articles

Chinese and Japanese Reporting of the Yasukuni Shrine Controversy: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Media Bias
Tan, Joseph and Zhen, Ni
Posted: 15 April 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discussion Papers

Japan's History Textbook Controversy: Social Movements and Governments in East Asia, 1982-2006
Shibuichi, Daiki
Posted: 4 March 2008

Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 9 May 2003

Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order: Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status
Hamai, Kazufumi and Mauch, Peter
Posted: 21 March 2002

Book Reviews

Japan and Russia: Three Centuries of Mutual Images
Bukh, Alexander
Review of: Mikhailova Yulia and M. William W. Steele eds. (2008) Japan and Russia: Three Centuries of Mutual Images.
Posted: 14 April 2009

No Trace of Influence? Japan's North Korea Policy and the Great Powers
Envall, H.D.P.
Review of: Hagström, Linus and Marie Söderberg (eds) (2006) North Korea Policy: Japan and the Great Powers.
Posted: 14 January 2008

Contesting the Japanese Constitution
Review of: Hook, Glenn D. and Gavan McCormack (2001), Japan's Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis.
Envall, H. D. P.
Posted: 7 December 2006

Japanese Negotiating Style: More Than an Interested Bridge Partner
Review of: Michael Blaker, Paul Giarra and Ezra Vogel (2002) Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior
Hugo Dobson
Posted: 5 May 2004

Japan's Use of Economic Power: Balancing Between East Asia and the West
Review of: Wan, Ming (2001) Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Nasstrom, Jens
Posted: 2 July 2003

Explaining Japan's International Relations: The Quiet Diplomacy of an Aikidō State
Review of: Hook, Glenn D., Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson (2001) Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security
Envall, H. D. P.
Posted: 14 April 2003

The US-Japan Alliance and the Causes of Insecurity in North-East Asia
Review of: DiFilippo, Anthony (2002) The Challenges of the U.S.-Japan Military Arrangement: Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment
Matthews, Aaron
Posted: 17 February 2003

Understanding Japan-US Relations in a Time of Unilateralism
Review of: Curtis, Gerald (ed.) (2000) New Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations
Midford, Paul
Posted: 22 March 2002

The Japan-US Alliance: 21st Century Challenges in East Asia
Review of: Nishihara, Masashi (ed.) (2000), The Japan-US Alliance: New Challenges for the 21st Century
Envall, H. D. P.
Posted: 10 October 2001

-back to top

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

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

Discussion Papers

'Loss' and 'Recovery' of Voice amongst Korean International Marriage Migrants: Discourses of Korean-ness in Contemporary Japan
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 2 February 2007

-back to top

Narrating the Law in Japan: Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate
McArthur, Ian
Posted: 15 August 2008
** Winner of the 2009 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia **

Interned Minds: Issues of Historical Interpretation in Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment
Lege, R. Paul
Posted: 15 February 2008

The Reluctant Japanese Litigant: A 'New' Assessment
Yoshida, Masayuki
Posted: 13 October 2003

-back to top

Ito and Isbella in the Contact Zone: Interpretation, Mimicry and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Elliott, Andrew
Posted: 22 December 2008

Narrating the Law in Japan: Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate
McArthur, Ian
Posted: 15 August 2008
** Winner of the 2009 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature in Australia **

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

Queering Mishima's Suicide as a Crisis of Language
Chozick, Matthew
Posted: 15 October 2007

Nihilism or Nonsense? The Postmodern Fiction of Martin Amis and Haruki Murakami
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 8 May 2006

Politically Correct Racism and the Geisha Novel: The Psychology of Sophisticated Racism Mirrors that of Ethnic Jokes
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Posted: 10 January 2006

The Dying Game: Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 31 October 2005

The Sonnet Form in Japanese
Kenkyū
Gallimore, Daniel
Posted: 31 January 2002

Iratsume and Journals for Women in the Early Meiji Period
Kenkyū
Patessio, Mara
Posted: 31 January 2002

Reviews

Representations of Reality in Haruki Murakami's Fiction
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Review of: Seats. Michael (2006) Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture.
Posted: 24 October 2007

Lovers and Losers of Different Colours
Wright, Wendy Ella
Review of: Molasky, Michael S. (2001) The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory.
Posted: 9 October 2007

-back to top

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

Suicide and the Japanese Media: On the Hunt for Blame
Matthews, Joel
Posted: 20 July 2008

Politically Correct Racism and the Geisha Novel: The Psychology of Sophisticated Racism Mirrors that of Ethnic Jokes
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Posted: 10 January 2006

Japanese Women's Magazines: Inspiration and Commodity
Assmann, Stephanie
Posted: 20 October 2003

Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
McNeill, David
Posted: 23 May 2001

Media and Communication in Japan: Current Issues and Future Research
Gatzen, Barbara
Posted: 17 April 2001

NHK's Visions of Asia
Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature, ICAS 2
Gatzen, Barbara
Posted: 25 March 2002

Introduction to the Panel "Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature"
Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature, ICAS 2
Gössmann, Hilaria
Posted: 25 March 2002

Images of Asia in Japanese Best-Selling Manga
Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature, ICAS 2
Phillipps, Susanne
Posted: 25 March 2002

The Deemphasis of Ethnicity: Images of Koreanness in the Works of the Japanese-Korean Author Yū Miri
Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature, ICAS 2
Weickgenannt, Kristina
Posted: 25 March 2002

Commentary: Japan's "Return to Asia": History, Diversity, Gender
Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature, ICAS 2
Wöhr, Ulrike
Posted: 25 March 2002

Iratsume and Journals for Women in the Early Meiji Period
Kenkyū
Patessio, Mara
Posted: 31 January 2002

Book Reviews

Inside the World of Japanese TV
Review of: Penn, Wm. (2003) The Couch Potato's Guide to Japan: Inside the World of Japanese TV
McAuley, T. E.
Posted: 18 February 2004

-back to top

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

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

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

The 'Uyoku Rōnin Dō': Assessing the Lifestyles and Values of Japan's Contemporary Right Wing Radical Activists
Shibuichi, Daiki
Posted: 28 November 2007

Bringing Home the Japanese Abductees from North Korea
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 28 November 2007

Is Japanese Politics 'Un-Westminster'? Examining the Role of the PARC
Yoshioka, Masatsugu
Posted: 14 June 2007

Structural Construction of Japanese Politics as an Alternative to Structural Reform
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 31 January 2005

Municipal Mergers in Rural Japan: Easy on the Powerful, Severe on the Weak
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 31 January 2005

The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline
Chapple, Julian
Posted: 18 October 2004

Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan
Kamikubo, Masato
Posted: 4 November 2003

Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms
Matsuda, Noritada
Posted: 13 August 2003

Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
McNeill, David
Posted: 27 March 2001

Conference and Seminar Papers

Changing Partisan Support and the Rise of the Mutohaso During the 1990s
Kenkyu
Hyde, Sarah
Posted: 31 January 2002

The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policy Making
Kamikubo, Masato
Review of: Toya, Tetsuro (2003), Kinyu Biggu Ban no Seiji Keizai Gaku: Kinyū to Kōkyō Seisaku Sakutei ni okeru Seido Henka [The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policy Making].
Posted: 31 January 2007

Contesting the Japanese Constitution
Review of: Hook, Glenn D. and Gavan McCormack (2001), Japan's Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis.
Envall, H. D. P.
Posted: 7 December 2006

'Toppamono' Miyazaki Manabu: Adding Colour to Understanding Japan
Review of: Miyazaki, Manabu (2005) Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect ・My Life in Japan's Underworld.
Hood, Christopher P.
Posted: 11 May 2006

Travels in Japanese Politics, Old and New
Review of: Hayes, Louis D. (2005), Introduction to Japanese Politics, Fourth Edition,
McCormack, Gavan (2001), The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, Revised Edition, with a foreword by Norma Field,
and Bowen, Roger W. (2003), Japan's Dysfunctional Democracy: The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption.
Envall, H. D. P.
Posted: 27 March 2006

Amakudari
Review of: Richard A. Colignon and Chikako Usui (2003) Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy
Cardwell, Paul James
Posted: 22 April 2005

Making 'Citizens' into Political Subjects
Review of: Sasaki-Uemura, W. M. (2001), Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan
Tanji, Miyume
Posted: 6 April 2005

The Perennial Question: Is Japan Changing?
Review of: Schaede, Ulrike and William Grimes (eds) (2003) Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the Twenty-first Century
Hugo Dobson
Posted: 2 October 2003

Citizen Activism in Japan: Toppling Preconceptions
Review of: Hirata, Keiko (2002) Civil Society in Japan
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 17 February 2003

Abe Kobo's Woman in the Dunes as a Metaphor for Human Relations Within Japanese Companies
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 23 April 2007

'Loss' and 'Recovery' of Voice amongst Korean International Marriage Migrants: Discourses of Korean-ness in Contemporary Japan
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 2 February 2007

The Light and Shadow of Corporate Reconstruction: Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 15 April 2006

Politically Correct Racism and the Geisha Novel: The Psychology of Sophisticated Racism Mirrors that of Ethnic Jokes
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Posted: 10 January 2006

Cooperativeness and Buraku Discrimination
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 31 October 2005

Approaching the Language of Zen: Clarke, Heidegger, and the Meaning of Articulation in Zen Koans
Sevilla, Anton
Posted: 28 April 2008

Dichotomies, Contested Terms and Contemporary Issues in the Study of Religion
Reader, Ian
Posted: 10 May 2004

The Religion-Secular Dichotomy: A Response to Responses
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: on 6 April 2004

Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology: Responding to Fitzgerald's Errors and Misguided Polemics
Reader, Ian
Posted: 3 March 2004

'Religion' and 'the Secular' in Japan: Problems in History, Social Anthropology, and Religion
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 10 July 2003

-back to top

Keetai Meeru: Younger People's Mobile Written Communication in Japan
Okuyama, Yoshiko
Posted: 25 February 2009

Japanese Employment in Transformation: The Growing Number of Non-regular Workers
Ishiguro, Kuniko
Posted: 22 December 2008

Feminist Erotica and Agency @ The Love Piece Club
Dales, Laura
Posted: 5 December 2008

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

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

Working on the Margins: Japan's Precariat and Working Poor
Obinger, Julia
Posted: 25 February 2009

Unable or Unwilling to Leave the Nest? An Analysis and Evaluation of Japanese Parasite Single Theories
Tran, Mariko
Posted: 3 July 2006

Cooperativeness and Buraku Discrimination
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 31 October 2005

Municipal Mergers in Rural Japan: Easy on the Powerful, Severe on the Weak
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 31 January 2005

The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline
Chapple, Julian
Posted: 18 October 2004

Yoseba: Homelessness and Day Labor Among Japan's Underclass
Gelb, Joyce
Review of: Aoki, Hideo (2006) Japan's Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless.
Posted: 4 March 2008

Youth Deviance and Adult Control
Okano, Kaori
Review of: Yoder, Robert Stuart (2004) Youth Deviance in Japan: Class Reproduction of Non-conformity.
Posted: 15 February 2008

Thinking About Younger People's Employment in 21st Century Japan
Ishiguro, Kuniko
Review of: Jō Shigeyuki (2006) Wakamono wa Naze 3nen de Kaisha wo Yamerunoka? Nenkō Joretsu ga Ubau Nihon no Mirai [Why do young people quit after three years? The seniority-based personnel management system deprives Japan of its future],
and Honda, Yuki, Asao, Naitō and  Gotō, Kazutomo (2006) 'Nīto' 'tte Iuna! [Don't call them NEETs!].
Posted: 9 October 2007

Citizen Activism in Japan: Toppling Preconceptions
Review of: Hirata, Keiko (2002) Civil Society in Japan
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 17 February 2003

Copyright: electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies
This page was created on 19 August 2005. It was last modified on 17 April 2009.

This website is best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels and using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
No modifications have been made to the main text of this page since it was first posted on ejcjs.
If you have any suggestions for improving or adding to this page or this site then please e-mail your suggestions to the editor.
If you have any difficulties with this website then please send an e-mail to the webmaster.