electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies
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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.
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Anthropology
Peer Reviewed Articles
Who Owns Culture? Negotiating Folk Tradition at the
Nishinomiya Ebisu Shrine
Ashmore, Darren-Jon
Posted: 15 October 2007
Discussion Papers
Towards a Mutual Anthropology of Identity
in Japan and the West
Flavia Cangià
Posted: 12 July 2010
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
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Architecture
Peer Reviewed Articles
A Postmodern Experience? The Case of
Japanese Architecture
Gharipour, Mohammad
Posted: 31 January 2011
Book Reviews
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
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Business Studies
Peer Reviewed 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
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Cultural Studies
Peer Reviewed Articles
National Identity (Re)Construction in Japanese and American Animated Film: Self and Other Representation in Pocahontas and Princess MononokeYoshida, Kaori
Posted: 30 September 2011
Radio and Television Consumption in Japan: A
Trilateral Intercultural Comparison with the UK and Germany
Heinze, Ulrich
Posted: 31 May 2011
The Sexual and Textual Politics of Japanese Lesbian
Manga: Reading Romantic and Erotic Yuri Narratives
Nagaike, Kazumi
Posted: 30 September 2010
Manga and Anime: Fluidity and Hybridity in Global
Imagery
Bryce, Mio; Barber, Christie: Kelly,
James; Kunwar, Siris; and Plumb, Amy
Posted: 29 January 2010
Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in
Post-Millennial Japan
Galbraith, Patrick W.
Posted: 31 October 2009
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
Japanese Middle-aged Women and the Hanryu
Phenomenon
Takeda,
Atsushi
Posted: 31 May 2011
The Anxiety of Influence: Ambivalent
Relations Between Japan's 'Mingei' and Britain's 'Arts and Crafts'
Movements
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
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
Mechanical, Academic, Anime: Mechademia 4 and
Mechademia 5
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Lunning, Frenchy, ed.,
Mechademia 4: War/Time, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2009, and Lunning, Frenchy, ed., Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Posted: 31 May 2011
Inventing a Japan through Theatre
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Lee, Josephine (2010) The
Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado,
Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press.
Posted: 31 January 2011
Connected by Characters: Animating the Postmodern
Community
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Azuma, Hiroki (2009) Otaku:
Japan's Database Animals.
Posted: 31 October 2009
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
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Economics
Peer Reviewed 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
Modern Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice: Central
Banking and Financial Markets
Heckel, Markus
Review of: Shirakawa Masaaki (2008)
Gendai no Kin'yū Seisaku: Riron to Jissai [Modern Monetary Policy in
Theory and Practice: Central Banking and Financial Markets], (in
Japanese), Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppan Sha, ISBN:
978-4-532-13344-3, 445 pages.
Posted: 31 May 2011
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
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Education Studies
Peer Reviewed Articles
Gender and Teacher Education Policy in Japan: Feminist
Teachers Organising for Change
Kawana, Sanae
Posted: 20 September 2009
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
The Sociolinguistic Context of English
Language Education in Japan and Singapore
Morita, Liang
Posted: 30 September 2010
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
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
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Film Studies
Peer Reviewed Articles
Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the YūshūkanPerkins, Chris
Posted: 30 September 2011
National Identity (Re)Construction in Japanese and American Animated Film: Self and Other Representation in Pocahontas and Princess Mononoke
Yoshida, Kaori
Posted: 30 September 2011
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
Modernity's Female Face
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Russell, Catherine (2008)
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese
Modernity.
Posted: 20 September 2009
Keeping Things Well at Hand
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Jacoby, Alexander (2008),
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors.
Posted: 15 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, Ab・Mark
(2001), Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 19 May 2005
Film Reviews
Still Life in Movement: Cha no Aji
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Katsuhito Ishii's Cha
no Aji (2004).
Posted: 15 October 2009
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
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Geography
Peer Reviewed Articles
The Residency and Lives of Migrants in Japan Since the
Mid-1990s
Ishii, Yuka
Posted: 19 August 2005
Discussion Papers
Smoke in the Air, Poison in the Soil:
Yoshida Misawo and Industrial Waste in Iga City, Japan
Chakraborty, Abhik
Posted: 31 May 2011
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
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Health and Medicine
Conference and Seminar Papers
Japanese
Health Cosmology: A Study of Cancer Patients in Japan
Okamoto, Ikumi
Kenkyū
Posted: 31 January 2002
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History and Historiography
Peer Reviewed Articles
Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the YūshūkanPerkins, Chris
Posted: 30 September 2011
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
Hope and Peril in Equal Measure: Negotiating Traumatic War Memories within the Construction of Oral HistoriesHadley, Gregory
Posted: 30 September 2011
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
Book Reviews
I Spy ... The Failure of Japanese Military
Intelligence in World War II
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Kotani, Ken (2009) Japanese
Intelligence in World War II, Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
Posted: 31 January 2011
Japan Yesterday and Today
Leimbigler, Sheri Zhang
Review of: Harrison, Trevor W.
(2008) 21st Century Japan: A New Sun Rising.
Posted: 29 January 2010
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
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International Relations
Peer Reviewed Articles
From Aid Recipient to Aid Donor: Tracing
the Historical Transformation of Japan's Foreign Aid Policy
Fumitaka FURUOKA, Mikio OISHI, and Iwao
KATO
Posted: 12 July 2010
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
Inroads or Crossroads? The Soka Gakkai's
Pacifist Endeavours in Japanese Foreign Policy
Benedict, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2011
Dealing with Complexity in Japanese Defense
Politics: The Next Generation of Good Subject-Matter Questions
Clausen, Daniel
Posted: 31 January 2011
Japan and Human Security: A Powerful
Discourse or a Useful Coping Mechanism?
Clausen, Daniel
Posted: 31 October 2009
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
Better to Remain Silent? Japan and the G7/8, 1975-2002Morris, Narrelle
Review of: Dobson, Hugo (2004) Japan and the G7/8, 1975-2002, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
Posted: 30 September 2011
Militarisation, Colonisation, Subordination, Resistance
Iles, Timothy
Review of:
Shigematsu, Setsu, and Camacho, Keith (eds) (2010) Militarized
Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific.
Posted: 30 September 2010
Japan's Grand Strategy: Goldilocks and the Search for
the Perfect Porridge
Envall,
H.D.P.
Review of: Samuels, Richard J.
(2007) Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of
East Asia.
Posted: 29 January 2010
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: 15 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
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Language and Linguistics
Peer Reviewed Articles
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
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Law
Peer Reviewed Articles
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 **
Discussion Papers
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
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Literature
Peer Reviewed Articles
Woman as Symptom and the Void at the Heart of
Subjectivity: A Lacanian Reading of Murakami Haruki's 'The Wind-up Bird
Chronicle'
Dil, Jonathan
Posted: 30 November 2009
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
Discussion Papers
Comparing Morio Kita's The House of Nire
with Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: A Case of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 30 September 2010
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
Conference and Seminar Papers
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
Dazai on the Couch
Withrow, Kaleb
Review of:
Nakano, Hisao (2009) Dazai Osamu: Shōgai to sakuhin no shinsō shinri
(Osamu Dazai: The deep psychology of his life and works).
Posted: 30 September 2010
A Biography of Self-Loss: The Life and Works of
Atsushi Nakajima
Askew, Rie Kido
Review of:
Minato Kawamura (2009) Rōshitsu seiden – Nakajima Atsushi no
bungaku to shōgai (A Biography of Self-Loss: The Life and Works of
Atsushi Nakajima).
Posted: 12 July 2010
Arthur Waley: Translator of the Tale of Genji
Askew, Rie Kido
Review of: Sukehiro Hirakawa (2008) Āsā
Weirī – Genji monogatari no hon'yakusha (Arthur Waley: The
Translator of The Tale of Genji).
Posted: 30 November 2009
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
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Media Studies
Peer Reviewed Articles
Re-Narrating Social Class and Masculinity in Neoliberal Japan: An Examination of the Media Coverage of the 'Akihabara Incident' of 2008Slater, David and Galbraith, Patrick W.
Posted: 30 September 2011
Radio and Television Consumption in Japan: A
Trilateral Intercultural Comparison with the UK and Germany
Heinze, Ulrich
Posted: 31 May 2011
The Sexual and Textual Politics of Japanese Lesbian
Manga: Reading Romantic and Erotic Yuri Narratives
Nagaike, Kazumi
Posted: 30 September 2010
Manga and Anime: Fluidity and Hybridity in Global
Imagery
Bryce, Mio; Barber, Christie: Kelly, James;
Kunwar, Siris; and Plumb, Amy
Posted: 29 January 2010
Japanese and Chinese Reporting of the
Yasukuni Shrine Controversy: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional
Media Bias
Tan, Joseph and Zhen, Ni
Posted: 15 April 2009
Feminist Erotica and Agency @ The Love Piece Club
Dales, Laura
Posted: 5 December 2008
Representations of Parenting and Gender Roles in the
Shōshika Era: Comparisons of Japanese and English-Language Parenting
Magazines
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 14 January 2008
Discussion Papers
Japanese Middle-aged Women and the Hanryu
Phenomenon
Takeda, Atsushi
Posted: 31 May 2011
Scandals and Their Mediations: Theorizing
the Case of Japan
Prusa, Igor
Posted: 10 March 2010.
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
Conference and Seminar Papers
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
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Philosophy
Peer Reviewed Articles
Hisamatsu and Dōgen: Creatively Constructing History Through Practice RealizationSevilla, Anton Luis
Posted: 10 March 2010
Discussion Papers
The Fascist Next
Door? Nishitani Keiji and the Chūōkōron Discussions in
Perspective
Tu, Xiaofei
Posted: 27 July 2006
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Politics
Peer Reviewed Articles
Triangle of Power: Relations between the
Occupation Authorities, Conservative Politicians and Behind-the-Scenes
Financiers in Postwar Japan
Saunavaara, Juha
Posted: 31 May 2011
Importing Human Capital: Contemporary Japanese
Attitudes to Immigration
Llewelyn, James and Hirano, Junichi
Posted: 30 November 2009
Party Financing in Germany and Japan:
Comparative Perspectives on Political Corruption
Giannakopoulos, Angelos; Maras,
Konstadinos; and Amano, Shinya
Posted: 15 October 2009
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
Discussion Papers
Smoke in the Air, Poison in the Soil:
Yoshida Misawo and Industrial Waste in Iga City, Japan
Chakraborty, Abhik
Posted: 31 May 2011
Inroads or Crossroads? The Soka Gakkai's
Pacifist Endeavours in Japanese Foreign Policy
Benedict, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2011
Post Heisei Merger Japan: A
New Realignment in the Dōshū System
Rausch, Anthony S.
Posted: 20 April 2010
Japan and Human Security: A Powerful
Discourse or a Useful Coping Mechanism?
Clausen, Daniel
Posted: 31 October 2009
Structural Ambiguity of the Liberal
Democratic Party: The Dissolution of the Diet in 2005 and the
Reinstatement Problem
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 15 October 2009
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
Book Reviews
Think Global, Fear Local
Gelb, Joyce
Review of: Leheny,
David (2009) Think Global, Fear Local: Sex Violence and Anxiety in
Contemporary Japan.
Posted: 20 April 2010
How Japan's Research and Development Went Global
Matsumoto, Noriko
Review of: Gregory P. Corning
(2004) Japan and the Politics of Techno-Globalism.
Posted: 20 September 2009
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
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
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Psychology
Peer Reviewed Articles
Problem Gambling in Japan: A Social
Perspective
Takiguchi, Naoko and Rosenthal, Richard J.
Posted: 31 January 2011
Discussion Papers
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
Book Reviews
Dazai on the Couch
Withrow, Kaleb
Review of:
Nakano, Hisao (2009) Dazai Osamu: Shōgai to sakuhin no shinsō shinri
(Osamu Dazai: The deep psychology of his life and works).
Posted: 30 September 2010
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Religious Studies
Peer Reviewed Articles
Hisamatsu and Dōgen: Creatively Constructing History Through Practice RealizationSevilla, Anton Luis
Posted: 10 March 2010
Discussion Papers
Inroads or Crossroads? The Soka Gakkai's
Pacifist Endeavours in Japanese Foreign Policy
Benedict, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2011
Approaching the Language of Zen: Clarke,
Heidegger, and the Meaning of Articulation in Zen Koans
Sevilla, Anton
Posted: 28 April 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
Book Reviews
Real Zen Buddhism: Finding Life Between Disembodied
Ideas and Funeral Practices
Anton Sevilla
Review of: Borup, Jørn, (2008) Japanese Rinzai Zen
Buddhism: Myōshinji, A Living Religion.
Posted: 28
October 2008
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Research Methods
Discussion Papers
Hope and Peril in Equal Measure: Negotiating Traumatic War Memories within the Construction of Oral HistoriesHadley, Gregory
Posted: 30 September 2011
Arukihenro: Reflections on Fieldwork by a
Visual Anthropologist
Mendel, Tommi
Posted: 20 July 2008
Sociology
Peer Reviewed Articles
Re-Narrating Social Class and Masculinity in Neoliberal Japan: An Examination of the Media Coverage of the 'Akihabara Incident' of 2008Slater, David and Galbraith, Patrick W.
Posted: 30 September 2011
Problem Gambling in Japan: A Social
Perspective
Takiguchi, Naoko and Rosenthal, Richard J.
Posted: 31 January 2011
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
Pawaa Appu! Women Only Unions in Japan
Broadbent, Kaye
Posted: 2 November 2005
The Residency and Lives of Migrants in Japan Since the
Mid-1990s
Ishii, Yuka
Posted: 19 August 2005
Collective Identity Creation and Local Revitalization
in Rural Japan: The Complex Role of the Local Newspaper
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 15
September 2004
Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a
Rapidly Globalising Japan
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 19 April
2004
Social Capital Theory in the Context of Japanese
Children
Bassani, Cherylynn
Posted: 8 May 2003
Out on the Global Stage: Authenticity, Interpretation
and Orientalism in Japanese Coming Out Narratives
McLelland, Mark J.
Posted: 10
October 2001
Discussion Papers
Japanese Middle-aged Women and the Hanryu
Phenomenon
Takeda, Atsushi
Posted: 31 May 2011
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
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
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
Solving Anti-Burakujūmin Prejudice in the
21st Century: Suggestions from 21 Buraku Residents
McLauchlan, Alastair
Posted: 31
January 2003
Conference and
Seminar Papers
Sleepless in Japan: The Kanashibari
Phenomenon
Kenkyu
Schegoleva, Anna
Posted: 31 January 2002
Book Reviews
Social Class in Contemporary Japan
Matanle, Peter
Review of: Ishida, H. and
Slater, D. H. (Eds.) (2010) Social
Class in Contemporary Japan:
Structures, Sorting and Strategies, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Posted:
30 September 2011
Private Realms of the State: Female Subjectivity and
the Japanese Home in the USA
Matsumoto, Noriko
Review of: Kurotani,
Sawa (2005) Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the
United States.
Posted: 30 September 2010
Japanese Workplaces in Transition?
Matanle, Peter
Review of: Meyer-Ohle,
Hendrik (2009) Japanese Workplaces in Transition: Employee
Perceptions.
Posted: 20 April 2010
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
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
Youth Policies and Youth Problems in Germany and
Japan: Culture Specific Approaches to Social Integration
Review of: Kreitz-Sandberg, Susanne
(ed.) (2002), Jugendliche in Japan und Deutschland. Soziale
Integration im Vergleich [Youth in Japan and Germany: Social
Integration in Comparison]
Oebel, Guido
Posted: 6 February 2004
Citizen Activism in Japan: Toppling Preconceptions
Review of: Hirata, Keiko
(2002) Civil Society in Japan
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 17 February 2003
Japan's New Challenge: Becoming a Multi-Ethnic Society?
Review of: Komai, Hiroshi
(2001) Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan
Abe, Atsuko
Posted: 10 February 2002
Melting Pot or Homogeneity? An Examination of Modern
Theories of the Japanese Ethnicity
Review of: Oguma Eiji
(2002) The Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-Images
Askew, David
Posted: 31 January 2002
Being in and of the World: Globalisation
and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
Review of: Clammer,
John (2001), Japan and its Others: Globalization, Difference and
the Critique of Modernity, and Eades J. S., Gill, Tom and
Befu, Harumi (eds.) (2000), Globalization and Social Change in
Contemporary Japan
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 10 July
2001
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