electronic journal of
contemporary japanese studies

Table of Contents by Subject Area

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

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

Book Reviews

Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective: Kawashima, Kumiko
Review of: Vogt, Gabriele and Roberts, Glenda S. (eds) (2011) Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Munich: Iudicum.
Posted: 17 February 2013

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

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

Managing in the Modern Corporation
Review of: Hassard, J., McCann, L., and Morris, J. (2009) Managing in the Modern Corporation: The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matanle, Peter
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

Cultural Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles

Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture: Takekawa, Shunichi; Posted: 17 February 2013
‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013
New Horizons: Women and the Shakuhachi: Fabrique, Martha; Posted: 26 October 2012
Conflicting Desires: K-pop Idol Girl Group Flows in Japan in the Era of Web 2.0: Jung, Sun and Yukie Hirata; Posted: 26 October 2012

The Birth of Shinkankaku-ha Bungejidai journal and Paul Morand
Omura, Azusa
Posted: 21 May 2012

Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Club: Expatriate Social Networks in Meiji Kobe>
Swanson, Darren L.
Posted: 21 May 2012

Them and Us: Perceptions of the Japanese Among the Foreign Community: Race Theory and Race Relations in Post-Extraterritorial Japan
Swanson, Darren L.
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

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

Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective: Kawashima, Kumiko
Review of: Vogt, Gabriele and Roberts, Glenda S. (eds) (2011) Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Munich: Iudicum.
Posted: 17 February 2013

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

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

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

Education Studies

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

Film Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles

Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the Yūshūkan
Perkins, 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

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

Film Reviews

Kokuriko zaka kara (From the Red Poppy Hill): Askew, Rie Kido; Posted: 17 February 2013

The Great Happiness Space: When Men become Objects of Prey
Kogan, Polina
Review of: Jake Clennell's The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006).
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

Gender Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles

‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013
New Horizons: Women and the Shakuhachi: Fabrique, Martha; Posted: 26 October 2012

Book Reviews

Feminism and the Nation-State in Japan: Mackie, Vera; Review of: Ueno, Chizuko (2004) Nationalism and Gender, translated by Beverley Yamamoto, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, and Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko (ed.) (2011) Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity are Making a Difference, New York: Feminist Press.; Posted: 17 February 2013

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

Book Reviews

Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective: Kawashima, Kumiko
Review of: Vogt, Gabriele and Roberts, Glenda S. (eds) (2011) Migration and Integration: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Munich: Iudicum.
Posted: 17 February 2013

Health and Medicine

Conference and Seminar Papers

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

History

Peer Reviewed Articles

Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture: Takekawa, Shunichi; Posted: 17 February 2013

Book Reviews

Feminism and the Nation-State in Japan: Mackie, Vera; Review of: Ueno, Chizuko (2004) Nationalism and Gender, translated by Beverley Yamamoto, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, and Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko (ed.) (2011) Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity are Making a Difference, New York: Feminist Press.; Posted: 17 February 2013

Historiography

Peer Reviewed Articles

Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the Yūshūkan
Perkins, 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 Histories
Hadley, 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

Dejima: reconstructed, re-imagined: Margerison, Jill; Review of: Mitchell, David (2010) , London: Sceptre, Paperback B-format ISBN 978-0-340-92158-6, 560 pages.; Posted: 26 October 2012

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

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, 1975-2002
Morris, 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

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

Language and Linguistics

Peer Reviewed Articles

Is the use of kanji increasing in the Japanese writing system?: Premaratne, Dilhara Darshana; Posted: 17 February 2013

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

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

Literature

Peer Reviewed Articles

The Birth of Shinkankaku-ha Bungejidai journal and Paul Morand
Omura, Azusa
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

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

Media Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles

‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013
Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture: Takekawa, Shunichi; Posted: 17 February 2013

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

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

Framing a Catastrophe: Portrayal of the 3.11 Disaster by a Local Japanese Newspaper
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

Narrative Studies

Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture: Takekawa, Shunichi; Posted: 17 February 2013

Philosophy

Peer Reviewed Articles

Zen and Science
Joskovich, Erez
Posted: 21 May 2012

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

An inquiry into Japanese egalitarianism: A mechanism causing Japan’s transition failure: Suzuki, Yasushi; Posted: 26 October 2012

Discussion Papers

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

Politics

Peer Reviewed Articles

Kōmeitō in Japanese Politics: Akimoto, Daisuke; Posted: 17 February 2013
‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013
An inquiry into Japanese egalitarianism: A mechanism causing Japan’s transition failure: Suzuki, Yasushi; Posted: 26 October 2012

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

Popular Culture

Peer Reviewed Articles

Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan: The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture: Takekawa, Shunichi; Posted: 17 February 2013

Film Reviews

Kokuriko zaka kara (From the Red Poppy Hill): Askew, Rie Kido; Posted: 17 February 2013

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

Public Policy

Kōmeitō in Japanese Politics: Akimoto, Daisuke; Posted: 17 February 2013
‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013

Religious Studies

Peer Reviewed Articles

Kōmeitō in Japanese Politics: Akimoto, Daisuke; Posted: 17 February 2013

Zen and Science
Joskovich, Erez
Posted: 21 May 2012

Hisamatsu and Dōgen: Creatively Constructing History Through Practice Realization
Sevilla, 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

Research Methods

Discussion Papers

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

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

Sociology

Peer Reviewed Articles

‘Rapelay’ and the problem of legal reform in Japan: Government regulation of graphically animated pornography: Nakasatomi, Hiroshi; Posted: 17 February 2013

Play and Empowerment: The Role of Alternative Space in Social Movements
Cassegård, Carl
Posted: 21 May 2012

Nationalism, Materialism, and Preferences for the US and East Asian Countries in Japan
Ishii, Kenichi
Posted: 21 May 2012

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