Social Science Japan Journal

General Papers:

Hans Martin Krämer

Just Who Reversed the Course? The Red Purge in Higher Education during the Occupation of Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 24, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 1-18; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi011 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Chiavacci

Transition from University to Work under Transformation: The Changing Role of Institutional and Alumni Networks in Contemporary Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 19-41; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi017 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sanford M. Jacoby, Emily M. Nason, and Saguchi Kazuro

Corporate Organization in Japan and the United States: Is There Evidence of Convergence?
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 43-67; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi012 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Weathers

In Search of Strategic Partners: Japan's Campaign for Equal Opportunity
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 69-89; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi018 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

Tabata Hirokuni

The Incorporation and Economic Structural Reform of Japan's National Universities
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 91-102; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi020 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gesine Foljanty-Jost

NGOs in Environmental Networks in Germany and Japan: The Question of Power and Influence
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 103-117; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi019 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Ian Reader

Of Religion, Nationalism and Ideology: Analysing the Development of Religious Studies in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 15, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 119-124; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh051 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nakaoka Shunsuke

Rethinking Modern Japanese History
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 15, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 125-129; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh045 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Sato Minako

Bei Yi-hui de Ge-ming Qing-jie—Zai Zhong-ri Liang-guo Cong-shi Ge-ming de Li-cheng (Kita Ikki's Radical Complex: The Course of His Involvement in Chinese and Japanese Revolutions), by Huang Tzu-chin. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2001, 350 pp., NT$350 (hardcover ISBN 957-671-755-8), 341 pp., NT$300 (paperback ISBN 957-671-756-6)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 3, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 131-133; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh046 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miranda A. Schreurs

Japan im Vergleich (Japan in Comparison), edited by Wolfgang Seifert and Claudia Weber. München: Iudicum Verlag, 2002, 308 pp., 3,684 yen (ISBN 3-89129-680-0)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 3, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 133-137; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh047 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brett L. Walker

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People–Wildlife Relations, by John Knight. Oxford: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, 2003, 296 pp., $74.00 (ISBN 0-19-925518-0).
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 3, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 137-140; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh048 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Newman

Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, by Ian Neary. London: Routledge, 2002, 297 pp., £65.00 (ISBN 0-415-25808-1)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 3, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 140-143; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh049 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christienne L. Hinz

The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan, by Barbara Sato. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003, ix+241 pp., colour plates, photos, notes, bibliography and index, $19.95 (ISBN 0-8223-3044-X)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on September 3, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 143-145; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyh050 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joanne Cullinane

Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in a Tokyo Fitness Club, by Laura Spielvogel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, xii+250 pp., $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3049-0)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 146-149; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi001 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroko Kawanami

Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society through the Aum Affair, edited by Robert J. Kisala and Mark R. Mullins. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, 240 pp., $69.95 (ISBN 0333772695)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 149-151; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi002 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshida Takashi

Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942–5, by R. P. W. Havers. London: Routledge, 2003, 216 pp., $90.00 (ISBN: 0700716572)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 151-155; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi004 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshikawa Hiroshi

Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival, by Richard Katz. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002, 320 pp., $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0765610744)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 155-157; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi006 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Axel Klein

Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System, edited by Steven R. Reed. London and New York: Nissan Institute/Routledge Curzon Japanese Studies Series, 2003, 240 pp., £60.00 ($104.95) (ISBN 0-415-31140-3)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 157-160; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi007 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ross D. Schaap

Kin'y Bigguban no Seiji Keizaigaku (The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang), by Toya Tetsur. Tokyo: Ty Keizai Shimpansha, 2003, 400 pp., 3,800 yen (ISBN 4-492-39399-4)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 160-162; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi009 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ueda Hirofumi

Monozukuri no Gin: Jidsha Sangy no Shokuba de (The Skills of Manufacturing: On the Shop Floor of Automobile Manufacturing), by Koike Kazuo, Chuma Hiroyuki, and ta Sichi. Tokyo: Ty Keizai Shinpsha, 2001, viii+346 pp., 3,800 yen (ISBN 4-492-26060-9)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 163-166; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi010 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandra Wilson

Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan: Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?, edited by Dick Stegewerns. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003, 342 pp., $95.00 (ISBN 0700714960)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 166-169; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi014 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alicia Girón

Franco y el Imperio Japonés: Imágenes y Propaganda en tiempos de guerra: Así fue la Historia Rescatada (Franco and the Japanese Empire: Images and Propaganda in Times of War), by Florentino Rodao. Barcelona, Spain: Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A., 2002, 669 pp., 18 (ISBN 84-01-53054-7)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 169-172; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi015 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 173; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi022 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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