Social Science Japan Journal

General Papers:

Patricia L. MACLACHLAN

Storming the Castle: The Battle for Postal Reform in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 1-18; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chieko NUMATA

Checking the Center: Popular Referenda in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 19-31; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yuki FUJIME

Japanese Feminism and Commercialized Sex: The Union of Militarism and Prohibitionism
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 33-50; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea GERMER

‘The Inner and the Outer Domain’: Sexuality and the Nation-State in Japanese Feminist Historiography
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 51-72; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

David T. JOHNSON

The Vanishing Killer: Japan’s Postwar Homicide Decline
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 6, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 73-90; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilse LENZ

From Mothers of the Nation to Global Civil Society: The Changing Role of the Japanese Women’s Movement in Globalization
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 91-102; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Matthew PENNEY

Bridging the Gap: Images of Okinawa in Japanese Popular Culture
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 103-108; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomomi YAMAGUCHI

‘Loser Dogs’ and ‘Demon Hags’: Single Women in Japan and the Declining Birth Rate
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 21, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 109-114; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Aiko UTSUMI

Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, by Ken’ichi Goto. Athens: Ohio University Research in International Studies, 2003, 344 pp., $24.95 (paperback ISBN 0896802310)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 115-118; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yasuaki SHIN’YA

Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750–1890, by Brian Platt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004, 318 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-01396-4)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 118-121; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kim BRANDT

Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Orientalism, by Yuko Kikuchi. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, 309 pp., £75.00 (hardcover ISBN 0415297907)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 121-125; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ikuko NISHIMOTO

New Times in Modern Japan, by Stefan Tanaka. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, 225 pp., $29.95 (ISBN 0691117748)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 6, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 125-128; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven J. ERICSON

The Birth of Tardiness: The Formation of Time Consciousness in Modern Japan, edited by Hashimoto Takehiko and Kuriyama Shigehisa. Special issue of Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 14 (2002), 238 pp. (ISSN 0915-0986)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 128-131; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masafumi MIKI

The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka, by Jeffrey E. Hanes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2002, xii + 348 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-22849-9)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 132-134; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masaki NAKABAYASHI

Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrializing Economy: The Textile Industry Before the Pacific War, by Janet Hunter. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 320 pp., £65.00 (ISBN 0-415-29731-1)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 134-137; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Satoru KOBORI

Nihon Denryokugy Hatten no Dainamizumu (Dynamism of Development in the Japanese Electric Power Industry), by Kikkawa Takeo. Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai, 2004, 600 pp., ¥6,090 (hardcover ISBN 4815804826)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 138-140; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kuniko ISHIGURO

A Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy and Narrative, by Fiona Graham. London and New York: RoutlegeCurzon, 2005, 288 pp., $115.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-34685-1)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 141-143; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fiona GRAHAM

Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, edited by Joseph Tobin. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004, 304 pp., $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3287-6), $74.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3250-7)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 6, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 144-146; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. Taylor ATKINS

Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, edited by William W. Kelly. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004, 202 pp., $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-791-46032-0)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 146-149; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Liv COLEMAN

Kodomo ga Hette, Nani ga Warui ka! (Fewer Children—What’s Wrong with That?), by Akagawa Manabu. Tokyo: Chikuma Shinsho, 2004, 217 pp., ¥735 (paperback ISBN 4480062114)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 149-152; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl001 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Makiko NISHIKAWA

Tg Sareru Danjo no Shokuba (Gender Integration in the Workplace), by Shut Wakana. Tokyo: Keis Shob, 2003, 300 pp., ¥5,670 (hardcover ISBN 4326648597)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 152-155; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masako SUGINOHARA

Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change, by Jennifer Amyx. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, 408 pp., $39.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-691-11447-1)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 155-158; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masahiko ASANO

Gikai Seido to Nihon Seiji (Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet), by Masuyama Mikitaka. Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2003, 291 pp., ¥4,200 (hardcover ISBN 4-83-322339-2)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 21, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 158-161; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mikanagi YUMIKO

Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks, by Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004, 220 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8047-5022-x)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 24, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 162-164; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eiko MARUKO

Bryoku no Tetsugaku (Philosophy of Violence), by Sakai Takashi. Tokyo: Kawade Shob Shinsha, 2004, 239 pp., ¥1,500 (ISBN 4309243088)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on October 6, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 165-167; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyi045 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ichiro OZAKI

The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis, by Carl F. Goodman. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2003, 391 pp., $105.00 (hardcover ISBN 9-041-18903-3)
Social Science Japan Journal Advance Access published on March 21, 2006
Social Science Japan Journal 2006 9: 167-169; doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyk009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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