Social Science Japan Journal

General Articles:

Andrew Dewit and Sven Steinmo

The Political Economy of Taxes and Redistribution in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 159-178; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.159 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Walter Hatch

Regionalizing the State: Japanese Administrative and Financial Guidance for Asia
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 179-197; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.179 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshimi Shun‘ya

The Development of ‘Newspaper Studies’ as an Academic Discipline in the Discursive Space of 1930s Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 199-214; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.199 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Babb

Two Currents of Conservatism in Modern Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 215-232; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.215 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

Nakamura Naofumi

The Present State of Research on Zaibatsu: The Case of Mitsubishi
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 233-242; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.233 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentaries:

Marcus Rebick and Heidi Gottfried

‘Atypical’ and ‘Irregular’ Labour in Contemporary Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 243-248; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.243 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

John Davis

New Writing on the Buraku Issue
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 249-253; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.249 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Hellyer

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Sakoku Theme in Japanese Foreign Relations: 1600–2000
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 255-259; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.255 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kang Dongkook

Manifest Past and Ambiguous Future: Chronologies of Japanese History
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 261-265; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.261 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

J. Victor Koschmann

Maruyama Masao, Nihon no Shis Seidoku (An Explication of Japanese Thought by Maruyama Masao), by Miyamura Haruo. Tokyo: Iwanami Gendai Bunko, 2001, 224 pp., 1,100 yen (ISBN 4-00-600042-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 267-270; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.267 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Igarashi Yoshikuni

Kioku to Bkyaku no Seijigaku: Dka Seisaku, Sens Sekinin, Shgteki Kioku (The Politics of Memory and Oblivion: Assimilation Politics, War Responsibility, and Collective Memory), by Ishida Takeshi. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2000, 313 pp., 3,500 yen (ISBN 4-7503-1302-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 270-272; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.270 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anja Osiander

Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan, by Timothy S. George. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001, xxi + 385 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-00364-0), $25.00 (paperback ISBN 0-674–00785-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 273-275; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.273 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fujita Kuniko

Local Voices, National Issues: The Impact of Local Initiatives in Japanese Policy-Making, edited by Sheila A. Smith. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2000, xi + 160 pp., $32.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-939512-04-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 276-279; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.276 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Henry Laurence

Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media, by Laurie Anne Freeman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000, xiii + 280 pp., $41.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-691-05954-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 279-282; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.279 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anno Tadashi

Distant Neighbors, Volume I: Japanese–Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov; Distant Neighbors, Volume II: Japanese–Russian Relations under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, by Hiroshi Kimura. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Vol. 1, xxi + 335 pp., $84.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-7656-0585-6). Vol. 2, xx + 354 pp., $84.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-7656-0587-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 282-285; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.282 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tamai Kingo

Poverty, Equality and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan, by Deborah J. Milly. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999, xiv + 386 pp., $52.00 (hardback ISBN 0-674-69475-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 285-288; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.285 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Cave

Shakai Kais: Yutakasa no naka no Fubyd (Social Stratification: Inequality in an Affluent Society), by Hara Junsuke and Seiyama Kazuo. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1999, x + 230 + xxiv pp., 2,800 yen (hardcover, ISBN 4-13-053012-7)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 288-291; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.288 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hamada Tomoko

Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, by Junko Sakai. London: Routledge, 1999, viii + 296 pp., £63.00 (ISBN 0-415-19601-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 291-294; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.291 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ito Peng

Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan, by Roger Goodman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xi + 248 pp., £50.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-19-823421-X), £19.99 (paperback ISBN 0-19-823422-8)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 294-297; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.294 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Multiethnic Japan, by John Lie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, xiii + 248 pp., $36.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-00299-7)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 297-300; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.297 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fukuoka Yasunori

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin, edited by Sonia Ryang. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 229 pp., $90.00 (hardback ISBN 0-415-21999-X)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 301-303; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.301 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kirsten Refsing

Senj Minzoku no ‘Kindai-shi’: Shokuminchi-shugi o Koeru Tame ni (The Modern History of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Transcending Colonialism), by Uemura Hideaki. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2001, 281 pp., 2,700 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-582-84212-7)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 303-305; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.303 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D. P. Martinez

Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture, edited by Timothy J. Craig. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000, xii + 348 pp., $64.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-7656-0560-0), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 0-7656-0561-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 306-308; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.306 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer A. Amyx

Making Fiscal Policy in Japan: Economic Effects and Institutional Settings, by Hiromitsu Ishi. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $74.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-19-924071-X)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 308-311; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.308 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kin Kogyoku

Linking Community and Correction in Japan, by Elmer H. Johnson with Carol H. Johnson. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000, 413 pp., $44.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8093-2279-X)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 311-314; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.311 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Murakami Masanao

International Law, Human Rights and Japanese Law: The Impact of International Law on Japanese Law, by Yuji Iwasawa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 398 pp., £75.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-198-25912-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 315-318; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.315 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Furuta Kazuko

Ajia Kokusai Tssh Chitsujo to Kindai Nihon (The Order of Asian International Commerce and Modern Japan), by Kagotani Naoto. Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2000, 527 pp., ¥6,500 (hardback ISBN 4-8158-0376-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 318-321; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.318 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ando Junko

Doitsu Kokkagaku to Meiji Kokusei—Shutain Kokkagaku no Kiseki (The German Science of State and the Meiji State System: Tracing Lorenz von Stein's Science of State), by Takii Kazuhiro. Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 1999, 350 pp., 4,800 yen (ISBN 4-623-03098-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 321-324; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.321 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katsuragi Takao

Language Planning and Language Change in Japan, by Tessa Carroll. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001, 276 pp., $57.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-700-71383-2). Distributed in North America and Asia by University of Hawai'i Press
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 324-326; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.2.324 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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