Social Science Japan Journal

General Papers:

James BABB

Making Farmers Conservative: Japanese Farmers, Land Reform and Socialism
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 175-195; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shawn BENDER

Of Roots and Race: Discourses of Body and Place in Japanese Taiko Drumming
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 197-212; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sayuri SHIRAI

Growing Problems in the Local Public Finance System of Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 18, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 213-238; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naoko TOMIE

The Political Process of Establishing the Mother–Child Protection Law in Prewar Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 239-251; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

Patrik STRÖM

The Japanese Service Industry: An International Comparison
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 23, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 253-266; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Yuka ISHII

Beyond the Illusion of Homogeneity: Inward-looking ‘Japanese’ in the Age of Globalization
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 15, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 267-271; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeo KIKKAWA

Recent Research Trends on Japan’s Economy and Corporate Systems
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on June 17, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 273-279; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Susan L. BURNS

Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, by Sabine Frühstück. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 277 pp., $50.00 (hardback ISBN 0-520-23547-9), $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-520-23548-7)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 281-283; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul D. BARCLAY

The Political Thought of Mori Arinori: A Study in Meiji Conservatism, by Alistair Swale. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library (Curzon Press), 2000, x+249 pp. £65.00 (hardcover ISBN 1873410-87-5)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 284-287; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Janet HUNTER

Kindai Shihonshugi no Soshiki: Seishigy no Hatten ni okeru Torihiki no Tchi to Seisan no Kz (The Organisation of Modern Capitalism: Management of Transactions and Control of Production in the Development of the Silk Reeling Industry), by Nakabayashi Masaki. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2003, 534 pp., ¥12,000 (hardback ISBN 4-13-046075-7)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 23, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 287-290; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO

The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War 1931–1945, by Peter B. High. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 544 pp., $60.00 (hardback ISBN 0299181308), $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0299181340)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 291-294; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger BROWN

Beikoku tai Nichi Senry Seisaku to Bud Ky iku: Dai Nihon Butokukai no Kb (American Occupation Policy Toward Japan and Martial Arts Education: The Rise and Fall of the Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association), by Yamamoto Reiko. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Senta, 2003, 156 pp., ¥2,400 (paperback ISBN 4-8205-6998-8)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 294-298; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Noriko ASO

Etoki Hyakkaten ‘Bunkashi’ (An Illustrated Cultural Record of Department Stores), by Miyano Rikiya. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2002, 357 pp., ¥3,990 (ISBN 4532310075)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 298-300; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don CHOI

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930, by Jordan Sand. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, 512 pp., $65.00, £41.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-01218-6)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 300-303; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natsuki NATAKE

The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty-first Century, by André Sorensen. London: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, 2002, 352 pp., US$129.95 (Hardcover ISBN 0-415226-51-1)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on August 15, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 303-305; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mikio WAKABAYASHI

Kkoku Toshi Tky: Sono Tanj to Shi (The Advertising City of Tokyo: Its Birth and Death), by Kitada Akihiro. Tokyo: Ksaid Shuppan, 2002, 203 pp., ¥1,470 (ISBN 433185017X)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 305-308; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atsushi SUMI

Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America, by Aviad E. Raz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, 304 pp., $35.00 (ISBN 0-674-00858-8)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2004
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 309-312; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariko Asano TAMANOI

Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony, by Takami Kuwayama. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2004, 184 pp., $69.95 (hardcover ISBN 1-876843-82-9)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 312-314; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Merry WHITE

Japan’s Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society?, edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, x + 206 pp., $114.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-32227-8)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 314-317; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia L. MACLACHLAN

The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure, by David Leheny. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, 188 pp., $29.95 (ISBN 0801440912)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 317-319; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chie SAKAI

Danjo Kyd Sankaku Shakai o Tsukuru (Making A Gender-Equal Society), by sawa Mari. Tokyo: Nihon Hs Shuppan Kykai, 2002, 252 pp., 970 yen (ISBN 4-140-01950-6)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on February 3, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 320-322; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeshi ITO

Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, by Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, 480 pp., $39.95 (ISBN: 0-8014-3492-0)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 14, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 322-326; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yasunori SONE

Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform, by Aurelia George Mulgan. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2002, 260 pp., US$35.00 (ISBN 0-7315-3693-2)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on July 5, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 326-328; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Erratum
Social Science Japan Journal 2005 8: 329; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi041 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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