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SOCIAL SCIENCE MATTERS: INQUIRIES INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN JAPAN

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Wolfram MANZENREITER and Iris WIECZOREK
Introduction: Social Science Matters
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 1-3; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David CHIAVACCI
From Class Struggle to General Middle-Class Society to Divided Society: Societal Models of Inequality in Postwar Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 5-27; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arnaud NANTA
Physical Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Japanese Identity in Postcolonial Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 4, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 29-47; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroko TAKEDA and Glenn D. HOOK
The Politics of Political Knowledge: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Inquiry into Japanese Politics in the Early Postwar Period
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 49-68; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

YONEZAWA Akiyoshi
Quality Assessment and Assurance in Japanese Universities: The Plight of the Social Sciences
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 69-82; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wolfram MANZENREITER and Iris WIECZOREK
Reflections on the Trajectories of Social Science Research in Contemporary Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 83-97; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn023 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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OHTA Takaaki
Fairness versus Freedom: Constitutional Implications of Internet Electioneering for Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 99-115; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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SEKIYA Noboru
Two Paths towards Understanding the Importance of Civil Government
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 117-122; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rikki KERSTEN
Deciphering Maruyama Masao: The Challenge of Originality
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 123-126; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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ITOH Masanao
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 127-129; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yuko KIKUCHI
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 130-133; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MATSUDA Koichiro
A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 133-136; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ethan MARK
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism, and Borders
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 136-140; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sven SAALER
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 25, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 140-143; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eyal BEN-ARI
Japan's Contested Memories: The ‘Memory Rifts’ in Historical Consciousness of World War II
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 143-146; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

WADA Haruki
Kita Chosen e no Ekusodasu: ‘Kikoku Jigyo’ no Kage o Tadoru (Exodus to North Korea: Tracing the Shadows of the ‘Returnee’ Project) • Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 146-149; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KOBAYASHI Naoko
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 149-152; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ASAKAWA Yasuhiro
Making Pilgrimage: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 25, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 152-155; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TANAKA Masakazu
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 9, 2007
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 155-158; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jym050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HOSOKAWA Shuhei
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 5, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 159-162; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary REISEL
Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 21, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 162-164; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SUMI Atsushi
Ethnography at Work
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 165-168; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SATO Fumika
Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 169-172; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew ALLEN
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 28, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 172-174; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KONO Shigemi
The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 25, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 174-178; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leonard J. SCHOPPA
Shoshi Korei Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 25, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 178-180; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Erratum
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on April 1, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 181; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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