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Past and Present Constraints on Labor Movements for Gender Equality in Japan

Kazuyo, Y. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:27 PST

The purpose of this paper is to compare the obstacles Japan's representative national trade union centers, Sohyo and Rengo, faced in their efforts to achieve gender-equal employment and to illustrate how they coped with these obstacles at the time of the enactment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law in 1985 and at the time of its revision in 2006, through a detailed analysis of primary materials. Thanks to the 1997 revision, labor movements today are free from the dilemma of having to choose either ‘protection’ or ‘equality’ for women. Given this, I argue that the labor movements should now step up their efforts to achieve equality. In order to take a step toward the realization of gender equality and to forge a new solidarity by bridging the chasm that divides the labor movements in different employment categories, reconstructing the present framework of the categories of ‘regular’ and ‘non-regular’ workers is of utmost importance to labor movements.

The Mercantile Response in the Meiji Period: Capital Accumulation by Merchants and the Government's Rejection of Foreign Capital

Kanji, I. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:27 PST

This paper examines Japan's response to ‘external pressure’, mainly from Europe and the US, focussing on the ‘mercantile response’ by merchants and financiers. Before the beginning of free trade in 1859, many money exchange merchants in Osaka transacted with merchants and wealthy farmers from Hyogo to Kaizuka, along the coastal area of Osaka Bay. Despite the succession of bankruptcies in 1868, the financial market continued to function, and a number of the surviving exchange merchants established banks themselves. The Meiji government promoted the modernisation of the economy rejecting foreign capital, a situation unusual in international comparison. The government feared that, once foreign capital entered Japan, it would be difficult to prohibit interior trade by foreign merchants. Japan was able to achieve modern industrial development without foreign capital due to the industrial investment by merchants and financiers operating from the Edo period. However, financing from banks had a strict screening process, and few among the small- and medium-sized bourgeoisie were able to secure loans. The outcome of Japan's industrial revolution was thus a bi-polar economic structure, with giant capital on the one hand, and small businesses and farmers on the other.

The Intellectual Culture of Postwar Japan and the 1968-1969 University of Tokyo Struggles: Repositioning the Self in Postwar Thought

KERSTEN, R. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:27 PST

Japan's student-led protests of 1968–1969 resonated with similar movements around the world, particularly in their demand for individual autonomy and liberation from the burden of mature capitalism and the yoke of social regimentation. In the case of Japan, this movement also signified a major turning point in postwar intellectual culture. 1968 was when protesting youth led a critical rejection of the progressive intellectuals who had defined the substance of postwar Japanese democratic idealism. In intellectual terms, progressive thinkers were challenged from two directions: radicalism and conservatism. The confrontation between these three intellectual positions was dramatised in the movement that took place at the University of Tokyo. This article examines the experiences and responses of Maruyama Masao, Yoshimoto Takaaki (Ryumei) and Hayashi Kentaro during the course of the 1968–1969 protests at the University of Tokyo. I conclude that while 1968 heralded the end of progressive predominance, it confirmed the importance of ideas about the self in postwar intellectual life.

Japan Brand Strategy: The Taming of 'Cool Japan' and the Challenges of Cultural Planning in a Postmodern Age

DALIOT-BUL, M. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:27 PST

The production of a new and attractive ‘Japan Brand’—one that resonates with the emerging global image of ‘Cool Japan’ associated with Japan's popular culture—is a national project incorporated in the Japanese Intellectual Property Strategy promoted by the state since 2002. This article critically examines the Japan Brand Strategy as a government-owned production site of Cool Japan imagery and as a cultural policy designed to promote a specific sense of cultural identity. Detailed reconstructions of the selective appropriation of cultural products in order to create a new cultural imagery for Japan, of the meanings attached to this imagery and of the tactics devised to spread it, highlight how problematical it is to appropriate market-made images of Cool Japan for national ends. Furthermore, by examining the various functions attributed to this national strategy, I show that while it is primarily promoted as a means for enhancing Japan's industrial policy and cultural diplomacy, it is also devised as a mechanism to mobilize the nation during unsettled times. Through examining the Japan Brand Strategy, this article highlights the challenges faced today by cultural policy makers, questioning the contemporary relevance of the modernistic approach to the state as a regulatory cultural planning apparatus.

An Exploratory Analysis of National Prestige Scores

Shunsuke, T. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

The purpose of this study is to develop a national prestige score by emulating occupational prestige scores and to analyze how Japanese people perceive the prestige of various countries. The results of my analysis show that the overall ranking of national prestige is consistent with prior research that measured preferences toward nations, e.g. Western countries are evaluated more highly than African or Middle Eastern countries. Furthermore, while prior studies on ‘preference’ indicated relatively low positions for neighboring countries such as China, South Korea and Russia, this study found that they were ranked in the mid-range, regarding their prestige. I also examined the validity and reliability of the national prestige scores, with the following findings: first, a comparative analysis between national prestige and national preference revealed conceptual differences between prestige and preference and the external validity of a nation's prestige score. Second, in order to assess the reliability of the scores, I analyzed differences based on gender, educational level and age group. However, those attributes did not make any notable differences in terms of the overall ranking of nations.

A Window on Trends and Shifting Interpretations of Youth Sexual Behaviour: The Japan Association of Sex Education's 'Wakamono no Sei' Hakusho Reports from 1975 to 2007

Anne YAMAMOTO, B. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

Jun, S. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

The Culture of Japanese Fascism

BROWN, R. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

Nihon Shisoshi Handobukku (A Handbook of Japanese Intellectual History)

Minako, S. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

Gakumon no Boryoku: Ainu Bochi wa Naze Abakareta ka (The Violence of Scholarship: Why Were Ainu Graves Desecrated?)

HOWELL, D. L. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

Archeologie et Patrimoine au Japon

NANTA, A. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:28 PST

Mono to Otoko no Sengoshi (Things, Men, and Japan's Postwar History)

KATSUNO, H. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:29 PST

War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan, 1945-2007

HEIN, L. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:29 PST

Nihon no Daigakuseido--Rekishi to Tenbo (The Japanese University System: History and Future Prospects)

ASKEW, D. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:29 PST

Bunka, Kotoba, Kyoiku: Nihongo/Nihon no Kyoiku no 'Hyojun' wo Koete (Culture, Language, Education: Beyond the Standardization of the Japanese Language and Japanese Education)

Masami, S. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:29 PST

Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy

Yuka, I. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:29 PST

Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

NAGY, S. R. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm: Japanese Company-Japanese Labour

LEE, M. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Nihon Jidosha Kigyo no Shigoto/Kanri/Roshikankei: Kyoso wo Ijisuru Soshiki Genri (Organizational Principles for the Competitiveness of Automobile Companies)

Osamu, U. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

'Freeter' und 'Generation Praktikum'--Arbeitswerte im Wandel? Ein deutsch-japanischer Vergleich ('Freeter' and 'Generation Internship'--Changing Work Values? A German-Japanese Comparison)

CHIAVACCI, D. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business

Nobuhiro, H. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Fukushi Seiji: Nihon no Seikatsu Hosho to Demokurashi (Welfare Politics: Life Security and Democracy in Japan)

Kenji, H. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Setainai Bunpai to Sedaikan Iten no Keizai Bunseki (Economic Analysis of Intra-household Distribution and Intergenerational Transfers)

Yukinobu, K. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Kazoku Kyotei no Hoshakaigaku-teki Kenkyu (A Treatise of Sociology of Law upon Family Agreements)

Shiro, K. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:48:30 PST

Editorial

Hiroshi, I. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Does It Matter Who Cares? A Comparison of Daughters versus Daughters-in-Law in Japanese Elder Care

LONG, S. O., CAMPBELL, R., Chie, N. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Japan's mass longevity has led to significant changes regarding the care of frail older people. In 2000, the state created a mandatory Long-Term Care Insurance program designed to provide home-based and institutional services. It has not, however, eliminated the centrality of family assistance and the question for many families remains: who will do what for frail elderly relatives? This paper examines the widespread notion that caregiving by a daughter is a better option for family care than caregiving by a daughter-in-law. As part of a larger study of family care under the new long-term care insurance system, we interviewed 14 caregiver–care recipient pairs in which the caregiver was a daughter or a daughter-in-law. In this paper, we compare the two groups regarding how they became the caregiver, their use of long-term care services and the difficulties and positive outcomes of caregiving they have experienced. We find that what the caregivers do and the difficulties of providing support to their relative are largely similar, but that they differ in the emotional and relational aspects of the caregiving experience.

Negotiating What's 'Natural': Persistent Domestic Gender Role Inequality in Japan

NORTH, S. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

The burden of family work in Japan falls disproportionately on wives, even those who work full time and have relatively high incomes. Japanese household gender culture shows little of the progress toward equality seen in other industrialized nations and this is contributing to delayed family formation and low birth rates. This study of dual-income Japanese families with young children found a degree of increased mutuality in family work being negotiated. Nevertheless, couples’ actions continue to be oriented strongly to symbols of patriarchal prestige, such as husbands’ birth order position and breadwinner status. To the extent that they embraced tradition, respondents’ negotiations were colored by gender displays that preserved the certainties of historically contextualized gender identities and reproduced their associated unequal family work differentials.

Japanese Perceptions of Trafficking in Persons: An Analysis of the 'Demand' for Sexual Services and Policies for Dealing with Trafficking Survivors

Nami, O., Keiko, H. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

This paper analyzes and discusses Japanese people's awareness on issues relating to human trafficking, based on the results from a 2006 nationwide survey on perceptions on trafficking and prostitution, conducted by the National Women's Education Center of Japan. First, we summarize prior studies on Japanese people's awareness regarding sex and sexual behavior, and then, based on the findings of our survey, we clarify both the conditions surrounding male demands for sexual services and the consciousness of Japanese society overall in supporting those conditions. Additionally, we analyze people's attitudes regarding different approaches to dealing with survivors of human trafficking. Finally, we discuss the kinds of information necessary to educate the public so as to help eradicate human trafficking.

Law and Community in Japan: The Role of Legal Rules in Suburban Neighborhoods

Kiyoshi, H. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

This article investigates how people utilize legal rules to conserve hospitable dwelling environments in suburban neighborhoods in Japan, through an examination of building agreements (kenchiku kyotei), which are private contracts between landowners. The discussions in this paper are based on a database that includes interviews with residents and government officials, as well as responses to questionnaires administered to most of the boards of the homeowners associations in Yokohama City. My findings reveal that (a) Japanese residents often take legal rules into account when facing conflicts; (b) residents are often quite familiar with legal rules; (c) when residents discuss and settle disputes, neighborhood associations play important roles and (d) residents occasionally refer to and utilize not only legal rules but also nonlegal rules. My analysis suggests that legal rules are more ubiquitous than previously thought in Japan and that social structure has a decisive influence on the way they work.

Nation or Colony? The Political Belonging of the Japanese in Karafuto

Hiroyuki, S. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

This article charts the process of policy formulation regarding the political status of Japanese settlers in Karafuto, a Japanese colony in southern Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945. With a focus on the voices of colonists themselves, I analyze the ups and downs of their political movement to obtain the franchise to vote from 1924 to 1945. From the early 1920s, Japanese residents in Karafuto demanded representation in the National Assembly (Diet). They claimed that since the island's majority population was Japanese, settler–colonists possessed the full rights of Japanese citizens (unlike Karafuto's Indigenous Peoples, the Taiwanese or the Koreans). However, before granting the franchise, the central government stipulated a change in Karafuto's administrative status, from colony to unit of local administration. This condition prompted Japanese settler–colonists to resist full political integration with the mother country due to economic dependence on the Karafuto Colonial Government's development and public works projects.

By-Elections in Japan

JOU, W. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

By-elections have received relatively scarce scholarly attention, and common features identified by existing works largely derive from studies of Western countries with relatively stable patterns of party competition. The following pages contribute to the literature by examining by-elections in the Japanese House of Representatives since electoral reform in 1994. Changing patterns of party competition adds interest to observing by-elections taking place in the context of an evolving two-party system. The paper discusses how results from Japanese by-elections conform to, or deviate from, expectations based on findings from previous studies, in terms of the frequency and direction of seat changes, the turnout rates, the presence of minor party and independent candidates and the timing of by-elections during the legislative period. It then tests the impact of these factors, along with government approval ratings and macroeconomic indicators, on governing party performance in by-elections. The number of candidates, cabinet support and prefecture-level unemployment rates are found to exert a significant influence. Separate analysis is also carried out for by-elections characterized by head-to-head contests between the two major parties.

The Timely Discourse of an 'Ambivalent Savant': Osatake Takeki

VANOVERBEKE, D. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Nonregular Workers and Inequality in Japan

WEATHERS, C. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea

VOGEL, S. K. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Law in Japan: A Turning Point

UPHAM, F. K. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Seikatsu Hogo no Keizai Bunseki (The Economics of Public Assistance in Japan)

Yoshiya, S., Arata, T. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan

WHITELAW, G. H. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

I'm Married to Your Company! Everyday Voices of Japanese Women

GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI, O. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Families in Japan: Changes, Continuities and Regional Variations

MARTIN, R. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Utsuri yuku 'Kyoyo' (Changes in 'Cultural Literacy')

ASKEW, D. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Media no naka no Manga: Shinbun Hito-koma Manga no Sekai (Comic Art in the Media: The World of Single-Panel Newspaper Cartoons)

STEWART, R. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Yuka, I. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Gurobarujidai no Nihonshakai to Kokuseki (Japanese Society and Nationality in the Age of Globalization)

Chikako, K. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Shokuminchiki Taiwan ni okeru Seinendan to Chiiki no Hen'yo (Youth Association and Transformation of Local Communities in Colonial Taiwan)

MATSUDA, H. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II

BROOK, T. — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Erratum

Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Acknowledgement of Referees

Sat, 16 May 2009 01:36:22 PDT

Personnel Management Reforms in Japanese Supermarkets: The Positional Warfare and Limited Assimilation of Conversational Communities

KIM, Y. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

The Japanese general merchandising stores (GMS) industry has, in the 2000s, introduced new personnel management policies based on the principle of determining employee status and treatment according to ‘working conditions rather than employment arrangements’. This paper analyzes the substance and features of the new policies, as well as the factors underlying such policy reforms. By focusing on micropolitics at the workplace level, this paper highlights the possibility that the unofficial power of part-timers may underlie these reforms. The Japanese supermarket industry has increasingly been relying on the transformation of part-time employees into their main workforce both in volume and in substance in order to reduce labor costs. In the supermarket industry, these new personnel management policies serve both to contain the unofficial power of part-time employees through a limited assimilation of core part-timers and to stabilize the profit structure. In addition, the new policies, which offer preferential treatment to employees who are able to accept transfers involving changes of residence, reinforce the gender differentiation that previously adhered to the underside of employment arrangements while weakening notions of differential status based on employment arrangements.

Gender in the Meiji Renovation: Confucian 'Lessons for Women' and the Making of Modern Japan

Sumiko, S. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

From the early Tokugawa period onward, the expression, ‘The hen does not announce the morning. The crowing of a hen in the morning indicates the subversion of the family’ from the Shujing (Book of Documents) was frequently called upon as a warning. At the height of the Tokugawa period, Ogyu Sorai deployed the authority of the Confucian Classics to subject the daimyo houses' ‘inner quarters’ (oku) to a scorching critique. But in conjunction with the Sanno Gaiki (Secret History of the Three Rulers), attributed to his student Dazai Shundai, Sorai's Seidan (Discourse on Government) could also be perceived as targeting the house of the shogun. While the anonymous author of the Sanno Gaiki meant to expose the sorry state of the shogun's rule, Sorai's Seidan offered a vision of what government ought to be like. Calls to remove ‘the hens’ from the inner sphere of power now rapidly grew in volume. Against this background, the ‘Meiji Renovation’ (Meiji ishin) must also be understood as an attempt to eliminate, in the diction of the times, ‘the power of the women’ (joken) from the deep recesses of the government's power structure, and to reaffirm the power (of men) which alone was considered legitimate. Thus, after their seizure of power, the imperial restorationists hurried to crush what they called ‘the power of women already lasting for centuries’ and moved an empress who ‘does not poke her beak into matters of government’ to the front instead. Ultimately, a program to educate ‘good mothers and good wives’, drawing on examples from Japan, China and the West alike, was embarked upon with the empress at its head.

Bushido Baseball? Three 'Fathers' and the Invention of a Tradition

BLACKWOOD, T. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Japanese baseball is often presented as an example of an unchanging Japanese ‘national character’, and Japanese baseball players are depicted as contemporary versions of the samurai, living and playing baseball according to a code of ‘yakyudo’ (‘the way of baseball’, thought to be a present-day incarnation of bushido, ‘the way of the warrior’) by both Japanese and non-Japanese commentators alike. In this paper, however, I argue that rather than Japanese baseball's ideology and practices being reflective of a unique and unchanging ‘essence’ of Japan, they are the result of specific individuals and institutions interacting under particular historical and social forces. Moreover, although the dominant ideology in Japanese baseball has been couched in the rhetoric of bushido for over 100 years, it is in fact closer to 19th-century Western notions of amateurism, sportsmanship and chivalrous masculinity than the ethos of samurai of earlier centuries. This is largely due to the efforts of Christian socialist Abe Iso, considered to be both the ‘father of Japanese socialism’ and the ‘father of Japanese baseball’, as well as his students Tobita Suishu and Saeki Tatsuo, known as the ‘father of student baseball’ and the ‘father of high school baseball’, respectively.

The Burden of Social Capital: Visa Overstaying Among Fujian Chinese Students in Japan

LIU-FARRER, G. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

This paper provides a sociological analysis of the student visa-overstaying phenomenon among Fujian Chinese immigrants in Japan. Since the mid-1980s, international education has been an important channel of migration from China to Japan. With the rapid increase of Chinese students in Japan, student visa overstaying has also become a major source of undocumented migration. Student visa overstaying is particularly visible among Chinese students from the Southeast coastal province, Fujian. This paper probes into this phenomenon by examining Fujian immigrants’ migration network characteristics. It argues that the social capital that facilitates migration and secures the livelihood for immigrants can become a liability prohibiting them from achieving upward mobility in the host society. Fujian immigrant social network closure cultivates and maintains a norm that positively sanctions undocumented immigration and provides resources that make it difficult for Fujian immigrants to maintain legal status.

Food Security and International Fisheries Policy in Japan's Postwar Planning

SMITH, R. D. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Japanese fisheries and food-security policy objectives of the postwar era were first conceived during the Allied Occupation and negotiations for the San Francisco Treaty. Official Japanese planning was largely concerned with food security, involving a high degree of self-sufficiency in fisheries in order to reduce the economic burden imposed by importing necessary food resources. The San Francisco Treaty provided the architecture for international fisheries relations in the North Pacific, whereby the US–Japan–Canada Trilateral Fisheries Agreement had set an important precedent through its support for freedom of the seas, resulting in Japan's largely unrestricted access to fishing grounds around the world.

The LDP's Defeat in Crucial Single-seat Constituencies of the 2007 Upper House Election

Ryosuke, I., Ikuo, K. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

This paper attempts to clarify and analyze the major factors behind the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) huge loss and the Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) overwhelming win in the single-seat constituencies (there are a total of 29 throughout the country), the results that decided the final outcome of the 21st House of Councilors Election held on 29 July 2007. Analysis of the election results reveals that, first, there was a shift in support from the LDP to the DPJ among primary-industry and construction workers, who were hard hit by the structural reform drive under the Koizumi and Abe administrations, and second, that since ‘unified local elections’ had taken place a few months earlier, many LDP supporters, tired out by their efforts in local-level elections, lost interest in the Upper House election and did not go to the polls (a situation known as the ‘Year of the Boar phenomenon’).

The Debate over Japan's War Responsibility

Toshikazu, I. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Reexamining Japanese International Relations in the Interwar Period

Kayo, Y. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Rekishi de Kangaeru (Thinking with History)

Junnosuke, M. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Japan's Imperial Forest Goryorin, 1889-1945

Keiichi, K. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Agriculture in the Modernization of Japan (1850-2000)

FRANCKS, P. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation (1924-1938)

Hiroshi, T. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor

Satoshi, H. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Kindai Nihon to Kika Seido (Naturalization in Modern Japan)

Kazuaki, H. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Saiban to Shakai: Shiho no 'Joshiki' no Saiko (Litigation and Society: Reconsidering the 'Common Sense' of the Japanese Judiciary)

Tomohiko, M. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Kaishaho Nyumon (Introduction to Company Law)

Wataru, T. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:09 PST

Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics beyond the WTO

Junji, N. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Client State: Japan in the American Embrace

Hideki, K. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia

KUO, Y. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan

JACKSON, G. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity

CULPEPPER, P. D. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy

HOSHI, T. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France

CONNOLLY, T. H. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World

Akira, S. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Zainichi Korean Ethnicity and Identity

LIM, Y. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities

Akiko, S. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Niito tte iu na! (Don't call us NEET!)

LUNSING, W. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Gakureki to Kakusa-Fubyodo: Seijukusuru Nihongata Gakureki Shakai (Education and Social Inequality: Contemporary Educational Credentialism in Japan)

FUKUZAWA, R. E. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST

Erratum

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:10 PST