Social Science Japan Journal

General Papers:

Sherry L. Martin

Alienated, Independent and Female: Lessons from the Japanese Electorate
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 1-19; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.1 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eiji Kawabata

Dual Governance: The Contemporary Politics of Posts and Telecommunications in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 21-39; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.21 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Seung-Mi Han

From the Communitarian Ideal to the Public Sphere: The Making of Foreigners' Assemblies in Kawasaki City and Kanagawa Prefecture
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 41-60; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.41 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher S. Thompson

You Are Your House: The Construction and Continuity of Family and Identity Using Yag in a Japanese Suburban Farming Community
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 61-81; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.61 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yeongseop Rhee

East Asian Monetary Integration: Destined to Fail?
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 83-102; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.83 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

Honda Yuki

The Formation and Transformation of the Japanese System of Transition from School to Work
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 103-115; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.103 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Hans Baerwald

The Best Overview of the Allied Occupation of Japan yet Written
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 117-122; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.117 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulrich Straus

Selected Comments on Inside GHQ, a Prodigious Work
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 123-127; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.123 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Brian J. McVeigh

History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life, by Harry Harootunian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 182 pp., $24.50 (hardback ISBN 0-231-11794-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 129-132; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.129 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Greg Guelcher

The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932, by Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001, 522 pp. $52.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-00369-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 132-134; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.132 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kikkawa Takeo

Kigy Shihairyoku no Seigyo: Sengo Nihon Kigy no Keieisha-Shikin-Teikysha Kankei (Evading the Power of Large Shareholders and Creditors: The Relationship between Managers and Fund Providers in Japanese Corporations since the End of World War II), by Tanaka Kazuhiro. Tokyo: Yhikaku, 2002, xi + 213 pp., 4,000 yen (ISBN 4-641-16161-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 135-137; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.135 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruediger Kuehr

The Web of Power: Japanese and German Development Cooperation Policy, by Kato Kozo. Boston: Lexington Books, 2002, 187 pp., $65.00 (hardback ISBN 0-7391-0311-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 137-139; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.137 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brendan F. D. Barrett

Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States, by Miranda A. Schreurs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 291, $24.00 (paperback ISBN 0521525373)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 139-142; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oba Mie

Japan and East Asian Regionalism, edited by S. Javed Maswood. London: Routledge, 2001, 176 pp., $85.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-23747-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 142-145; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.142 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yasuko Kohno

The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar U.S.–Japan Relations, 1945–1952, by Robert D. Eldridge. London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2001, xxi + 425 pp., $85.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8153-3948)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 145-148; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.145 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Yonetani

Identity and Resistance in Okinawa, by Matthew Allen. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, 280 pp., $31.95 (paperback ISBN 0742517152)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 148-150; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.148 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Bondy

18-nin no Wakamonotachi ga Kataru: Buraku no Aidentiti (18 Youths Discuss Buraku Identity), by Matsushita Kazuyo. Osaka: Buraku Kaih Jinken Kenkyjo, 2002, 119 pp., 1,400 yen (ISBN 4-759-20114-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 151-153; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.151 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg

Gakureki, Senbatsu, Gakk no Hikaku Shakaigaku—Kyiku Kara Miru Nihon to Kankoku (Comparative Sociology of the School, Selection, and Credentials: Seeing Japan and Korea Through Their Education), edited by Nakamura Takayasu, Fujita Takeshi and Arita Shin. Tokyo: Tykan, 2002, 276, 4,500 yen (ISBN 4491017913)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 154-157; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.154 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joel R. Campbell

Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, edited by John W. Traphagan and John Knight. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003, 288 pp., $23.95 (paperback ISBN 0791456501), $71.50 (hardcover ISBN 0791456498)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 157-160; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.157 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Furusawa Yumi

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, by Margaret Lock. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2002, 429 pp., $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0-520-22814-6)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 160-163; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.160 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark Rebick

Shigoto no Naka no Aimaina Fuan: Yureru Jakunen no Genzai (A Vague Uneasiness at Work: The Shaken World of Today's Youth), by Genda Yji. Tokyo: Ch Kron Shinsha, 2001, 255 pp., ¥1,900 (hardcover ISBN 4-12-003217-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 163-165; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.163 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sato Kaoru

Jiy no Daish—Freeter: Gendai Wakamono no Shokugy Ishiki to Kd (‘Freeters’ and the Cost of Freedom: Occupational Consciousness and Action of Contemporary Youth) edited by Kosugi Reiko. Tokyo: Nihon Rd Kenky Kik, 2002, 196, 2,200 yen (ISBN 4-538-41150-7)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 165-169; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.165 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Muriel Jolivet

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, edited by James E. Roberson and Nobue Suzuki. London: Routledge Curzon, 2002, 240 pp., $32.95 (paperback ISBN 0-415-27147-9), $100.00 (hardback ISBN 0-415-24446-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 169-172; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.169 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan

Nippon no Otokotachi (Japanese Men), by Muriel Jolivet. Tokyo: Chikuma Shob, 2002, 252 pp., 1,900 yen (ISBN 4-480-86340-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2004 7: 172-175; doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.172 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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