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This section of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies provides a table of all contributions published in ejcjs. It is listed by reverse chronological order. Please click on the orange highlighted text to be taken to each contribution.

2011

Peer Reviewed Articles

7. Re-Narrating Social Class and Masculinity in Neoliberal Japan: An Examination of the Media Coverage of the 'Akihabara Incident' of 2008
Slater, David and Galbraith, Patrick W.
Posted: 30 September 2011

6. Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the Yūshūkan
Perkins, Chris
Posted: 30 September 2011

5. 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

4. Triangle of Power: Relations between the Occupation Authorities, Conservative Politicians and Behind-the-Scenes Financiers in Postwar Japan
Saunavaara, Juha
Posted: 31 May 2011

3. Radio and Television Consumption in Japan: A Trilateral Intercultural Comparison with the UK and Germany
Heinze, Ulrich
Posted: 31 May 2011

2. A Postmodern Experience? The Case of Japanese Architecture
Gharipour, Mohammad
Posted: 31 January 2011

1. Problem Gambling in Japan: A Social Perspective
Takiguchi, Naoko and Rosenthal, Richard J.
Posted: 31 January 2011

Discussion Papers

5. Hope and Peril in Equal Measure: Negotiating Traumatic War Memories within the Construction of Oral Histories
Hadley, Gregory
Posted: 30 September 2011

4. Smoke in the Air, Poison in the Soil: Yoshida Misawo and Industrial Waste in Iga City, Japan
Chakraborty, Abhik
Posted: 31 May 2011

3. Japanese Middle-aged Women and the Hanryu Phenomenon
Takeda, Atsushi
Posted: 31 May 2011

2. Inroads or Crossroads? The Soka Gakkai's Pacifist Endeavours in Japanese Foreign Policy
Benedict, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2011

1. Dealing with Complexity in Japanese Defense Politics: The Next Generation of Good Subject-Matter Questions
Clausen, Daniel
Posted: 31 January 2011

Book Reviews

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

1. 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

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2010

Peer Reviewed Articles

4. The Sexual and Textual Politics of Japanese Lesbian Manga: Reading Romantic and Erotic Yuri Narratives
Nagaike, Kazumi
Posted: 30 September 2010

3. From Aid Recipient to Aid Donor: Tracing the Historical Transformation of Japan's Foreign Aid Policy
FURUOKA, Fumitaka, OISHI, Mikio, and KATO, Iwao
Posted: 12 July 2010

2. Hisamatsu and Dōgen: Creatively Constructing History Through Practice Realization
Sevilla, Anton Luis
Posted: 10 March 2010

1. Manga and Anime: Fluidity and Hybridity in Global Imagery
Bryce, Mio; Barber, Christie: Kelly, James; Kunwar, Siris; and Plumb, Amy
Posted: 29 January 2010

Discussion Papers

5. The Sociolinguistic Context of English Language Education in Japan and Singapore
Morita, Liang
Posted: 30 September 2010

4. 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

3. Towards a Mutual Anthropology of Identity in Japan and the West
Cangi�E Flavia
Posted: 12 July 2010

2. Post Heisei Merger Japan: A New Realignment in the Dōshū System
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 20 April 2010

1. Scandals and Their Mediations: Theorizing the Case of Japan
Prusa, Igor
Posted: 10 March 2010

Book Reviews

9. 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

8. 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

7. 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

6. A Biography of Self-Loss: The Life and Works of Atsushi Nakajima
Askew, Rie Kido
Review of: Minato Kawamura (2009) Rōshitsu seiden �ENakajima Atsushi no bungaku to shōgai (A Biography of Self-Loss: The Life and Works of Atsushi Nakajima).
Posted: 12 July 2010

5. Japanese Workplaces in Transition?
Matanle, Peter
Review of: Meyer-Ohle, Hendrik (2009) Japanese Workplaces in Transition: Employee Perceptions.
Posted: 20 April 2010

4. 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

3. Fear on Film: Japanese Horror Cinema
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Balmain, Colette (2008) Introduction to Japanese Horror Film.
Posted: 10 March 2010

2. 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

1. Japan Yesterday and Today
Leimbigler, Sheri Zhang
Review of: Harrison, Trevor W. (2008) 21st Century Japan: A New Sun Rising.
Posted: 29 January 2010

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2009

Peer Reviewed Articles

7. Importing Human Capital: Contemporary Japanese Attitudes to Immigration
Llewelyn, James and Hirano, Junichi
Posted: 30 November 2009

6. 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

5. Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in Post-Millennial Japan
Galbraith, Patrick W.
Posted: 31 October 2009

4. Party Financing in Germany and Japan: Comparative Perspectives on Political Corruption
Giannakopoulos, Angelos; Maras, Konstadinos; and Amano, Shinya
Posted: 15 October 2009

3. Gender and Teacher Education Policy in Japan: Feminist Teachers Organising for Change
Kawana, Sanae
Posted: 20 September 2009

2. 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

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

Discussion Papers

3. Japan and Human Security: A Powerful Discourse or a Useful Coping Mechanism?
Clausen, Daniel
Posted: 31 October 2009

2. Structural Ambiguity of the Liberal Democratic Party: The Dissolution of the Diet in 2005 and the Reinstatement Problem
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 15 October 2009

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

Book Reviews

6. 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

5. Connected by Characters: Animating the Postmodern Community
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Azuma, Hiroki (2009) Otaku: Japan's Database Animals.
Posted: 31 October 2009

4. Modernity's Female Face
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Russell, Catherine (2008) The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity.
Posted: 20 September 2009

3. 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

2. 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

1. Keeping Things Well at Hand
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Jacoby, Alexander (2008), A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors.
Posted: 15 April 2009

Film Reviews

2. Still Life in Movement: Cha no Aji
Iles, Timothy
Review of: Katsuhito Ishii's Cha no Aji (2004).
Posted: 15 October 2009

1. 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

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2008

Co-Published Special Project

Shrinking Cities: Case Study Japan
Project Office Philipp Oswalt
Posted: 28 October 2008

This project was first published by the Shrinking Cities Project in Berlin in June 2008. It is co-published in ejcjs for the purposes of contributing to wider public discourse on contemporary developments in Japanese society. Please click on the orange link above to be taken to a table of contents and links to articles and illustrations.

Book Reviews

9. 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

8. 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

7. Real Zen Buddhism: Finding Life Between Disembodied Ideas and Funeral Practices
Sevilla, Anton
Review of: Borup, Jorn, (2008) Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, A Living Religion.
Posted: 28 October 2008

6. 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

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

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

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

Film Reviews

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

2. 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

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

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2007

Peer Reviewed Articles

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

Discussion Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Reviews

7. 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

6. 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

5. 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

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

1. 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

Film Reviews

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

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2006

Peer Reviewed Articles

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

Discussion Papers

6. The Fascist Next Door? Nishitani Keiji and the Chūōkōron Discussions in Perspective
Tu, Xiaofei
Posted: 27 July 2006

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

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

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

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

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

Book Reviews

5. 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

4. '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

3. 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

2. 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, 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

1. 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.
Ferber, Katalin
Posted: 10 January 2006

Film Reviews

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

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2005

Peer Reviewed Articles

8. Pawaa Appu! Women Only Unions in Japan
Broadbent, Kaye
Posted: 2 November 2005

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

Discussion Papers

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

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

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

4. The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 6 October 2005

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

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

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

Book Reviews

5. 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.
Shimoda, Tomoko
Posted: 9 November 2005

4. 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

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

2. 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

1. 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

Film Reviews

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

2. 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

1. 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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2004

Peer Reviewed Articles

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

Discussion Papers

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

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

4. 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

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

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

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

Book Reviews

6. 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

5. 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

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

1. 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

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2003

Peer Reviewed Articles

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

Discussion Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Solving Anti-Burakujūmin Prejudice in the 21st Century: Suggestions from 21 Buraku Residents
McLauchlan, Alastair
Posted: 31 January 2003

Book Reviews

6. 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

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

4. 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

3. 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

2. 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

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

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2002

Peer Reviewed Articles

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

Discussion Papers

1. 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

Conference and Seminar Papers

ICAS2

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
Gsmann, 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
Wr, Ulrike
Posted: 25 March 2002

Kenkyū

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sleepless in Japan: The Kanashibari Phenomenon
Kenkyū
Schegoleva, Anna
Posted: 31 January 2002

Book Reviews

8. 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

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

6. 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

5. 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

4. 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

3. 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

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

1. 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

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2001

Peer Reviewed Articles

1. Out on the Global Stage: Authenticity, Interpretation and Orientalism in Japanese Coming Out Narratives
McLelland, Mark J.
Posted: 10 October 2001

Discussion Papers

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

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

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

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

Book Reviews

2. 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

1. 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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