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Young KIM
Personnel Management Reforms in Japanese Supermarkets: The Positional Warfare and Limited Assimilation of Conversational Communities
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 31, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 183-199; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn046 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SEKIGUCHI Sumiko
Gender in the Meiji Renovation: Confucian ‘Lessons for Women’ and the Making of Modern Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 11, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 201-221; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas BLACKWOOD
Bushido Baseball? Three ‘Fathers’ and the Invention of a Tradition
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 19, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 223-240; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gracia LIU-FARRER
The Burden of Social Capital: Visa Overstaying Among Fujian Chinese Students in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 241-257; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger D. SMITH
Food Security and International Fisheries Policy in Japan's Postwar Planning
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 259-276; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IMAI Ryosuke and KABASHIMA Ikuo
The LDP's Defeat in Crucial Single-seat Constituencies of the 2007 Upper House Election
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 31, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 277-293; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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INOUE Toshikazu
The Debate over Japan's War Responsibility
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 31, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 295-298; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

YASUDA Kayo
Reexamining Japanese International Relations in the Interwar Period
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 3, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 299-302; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn056 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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MASUMI Junnosuke
Rekishi de Kangaeru (Thinking with History)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 21, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 303-306; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KAWATA Keiichi
Japan's Imperial Forest Goryorin, 1889–1945
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 17, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 306-309; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn054 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Penelope FRANCKS
Agriculture in the Modernization of Japan (1850–2000)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 309-312; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TAKAHASHI Hiroshi
Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation (1924–1938)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 4, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 312-316; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HATTORI Satoshi
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 9, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 316-319; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

HARADA Kazuaki
Kindai Nihon to Kika Seido (Naturalization in Modern Japan)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 3, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 319-322; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn055 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MAEDA Tomohiko
Saiban to Shakai: Shiho no ‘Joshiki’ no Saiko (Litigation and Society: Reconsidering the ‘Common Sense’ of the Japanese Judiciary)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 29, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 322-325; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

TANAKA Wataru
Kaishaho Nyumon (Introduction to Company Law)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 15, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 325-327; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

NAKAGAWA Junji
Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics beyond the WTO
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 31, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 327-330; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KAN Hideki
Client State: Japan in the American Embrace
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 3, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 330-333; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yujen KUO
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 14, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 333-337; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gregory JACKSON
The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 22, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 337-339; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pepper D. CULPEPPER
Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 339-343; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeo HOSHI
The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 344-346; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomoko Hamada CONNOLLY
Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 22, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 346-350; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SUEHIRO Akira
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 31, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 350-353; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Youngmi LIM
Zainichi Korean Ethnicity and Identity
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 16, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 353-357; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SHIMIZU Akiko
Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 16, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 357-361; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn042 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wim LUNSING
Niito tte iu na! (Don't call us NEET!)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 3, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 361-364; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Erwin FUKUZAWA
Gakureki to Kakusa-Fubyodo: Seijukusuru Nihongata Gakureki Shakai (Education and Social Inequality: Contemporary Educational Credentialism in Japan)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 17, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 364-368; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Erratum
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 18, 2008
Social Science Japan Journal 2008 11: 369; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyn028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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