Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1506015_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the managing editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 143-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1506015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1506015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:143-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1460049_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Takayoshi Yamamura Author-X-Name-First: Takayoshi Author-X-Name-Last: Yamamura Title: Pop culture contents and historical heritage: The case of heritage revitalization through ‘contents tourism’ in Shiroishi city Abstract: The objective of this study is to clarify the processes of contents tourism promotion and local cultural heritage revitalization using pop culture contents or popular media. Specifically, this article analyzes the potential of games and anime to play a role in the revitalization of regional historical resources. As a case study, it focuses on the case of Shiroishi city, Miyagi prefecture, in northern Japan and the video game and television anime Sengoku BASARA. This article describes how the local community reacted to a tourism boom triggered by the game and anime, and how they took advantage of the renewed interest in their local history created by popular cultural forms to revitalize historical heritage in the city. The findings suggest that a key to the successful use of game contents to promote historical tourism is for the game/anime to be treated as an opportunity, and to have the fans of the game/anime become fans of the local region. Such a process encourages local residents to feel pride towards their local history. These suggestions imply the possibility of new forms of tourism where new cultures can be created by revitalizing local heritage. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 144-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1460049 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1460049 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:144-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1478938_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Johan Rochel Author-X-Name-First: Johan Author-X-Name-Last: Rochel Title: Protecting Japan from immigrants? An ethical challenge to security-based justification in immigration policy Abstract: This article contributes to the growing interest in both the ethics of immigration and Japanese immigration studies by analysing the ethical justification of Japan’s immigration policy. The main objective of this article is to specify and address security-based justifications as part of an investigation into the ethical dimension of Japan’s immigration policy. Security is systematically drawn upon as one of the most powerful rationales to justify the competence claimed by Japan to control immigration as it deems adequate. The article will first specify the types of justification at stake. Second, it unpacks four understandings of security in immigration matters: as public order, as protection of welfare mechanisms, as cultural stability and as protection of social trust. Each of these justifications is bound with specific ethical challenges. Overall, the article maps the different justification strategies, their shortcomings and their advantages. The article intends to launch a proper ethical debate on Japan’s immigration policy. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 164-188 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1478938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1478938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:164-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1506642_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sae Okura Author-X-Name-First: Sae Author-X-Name-Last: Okura Title: The last suffrage movement in Japan: Voting rights for persons under guardianship Abstract: In the 1990s, only four of the 63 democratic countries of the world opted to give the right to vote to people with mental health problems and/or intellectual disabilities. However, by the late 2000s, 11 countries, including Japan, had lifted all restrictions and granted those people the right to vote. These changes were justified based on international factors such as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was drafted in 2006. However, as shown by the fact that some countries have granted this right and other countries have not, even among countries that ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, foreign pressure has had varying effects. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze domestic political processes in order to explain the increasing number of countries granting full voting rights to people with mental/intellectual disabilities.In Japan, people under guardianship gained the right to vote in 2013. Why and how did this happen? This article examines Japan’s domestic political processes regarding this right, and clarifies the conditions under which it was recovered. The article reveals how the investigation into the process of making domestic legal changes, which is required to ratify treaties related to the rights of people with mental and/or intellectual disabilities, led to an important discovery regarding the constitutional basis for denying voting rights. People with disabilities and their supporters claimed that the qualification clauses of the Public Offices Election Act were unconstitutional. The resultant rulings in favor of the plaintiffs directly led to legal revisions. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 189-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1506642 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1506642 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:189-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1501794_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Naonori Kodate Author-X-Name-First: Naonori Author-X-Name-Last: Kodate Title: Regulating risks in healthcare in Japan: Between new politics and the tradition of liberal practice in medicine Abstract: Liberal practice in the medical professions has long been the tradition and de-facto position of the Japanese government. However, accountability and transparency in healthcare governance have recently drawn scrutiny, primarily due to several adverse events in hospitals. While New Public Management and risk-based approaches have not penetrated the design of regulatory management and compliance strategies, there has been increased institutional capacity and a search for a new mechanism of regulating risks in healthcare. This paper attempts to identify the directions of policy developments in Japan. It questions whether the conventional model of professional self-regulation in medicine is eroding, as in many English-speaking countries. The article demonstrates that while we may identify some common trends such as greater transparency and the creation of arm’s length bodies, policy decisions prove deeply embedded in governance arrangements, and professional self-regulation in healthcare remains resilient, particularly in Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 204-226 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1501794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1501794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:204-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1504530_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julien Martine Author-X-Name-First: Julien Author-X-Name-Last: Martine Author-Name: Jacques Jaussaud Author-X-Name-First: Jacques Author-X-Name-Last: Jaussaud Title: Prolonging working life in Japan: Issues and practices for elderly employment in an aging society Abstract: As a result of the rapidly aging society, Japan’s public policies and related academic research have sought to address issues related to the employment of older workers. However, these efforts do not sufficiently consider how human resources management practices might facilitate effective policies. In response, this study investigates both the challenges and the solutions that employers have adopted to deal with an aging workforce. In particular, the authors argue that practices developed mainly by smaller enterprises might offer insights for larger companies that attempt to support the employment of elderly workers. An empirical analysis of the human resources management practices employed by 27 Japanese companies provides novel insights into how companies can ensure the prolonged employment of older workers while also motivating their work performance. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 227-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1504530 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1504530 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:227-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1443744_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lee Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Lee Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 243-247 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1443744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1443744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:243-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1443745_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrew Elliott Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott Title: Placing empire: travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 247-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1443745 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1443745 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:247-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1449409_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: André Asplund Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Asplund Title: Japan in Asia: Post-cold-war diplomacy Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 251-253 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1449409 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1449409 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:251-253 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1468641_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian W. Spang Author-X-Name-First: Christian W. Author-X-Name-Last: Spang Title: Mutual perceptions and images in Japanese–German relations 1860–2010 Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 253-258 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1468641 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1468641 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:253-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1444413_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hara Takahashi Author-X-Name-First: Hara Author-X-Name-Last: Takahashi Title: A Japanese Jungian perspective on mental health and culture: wandering madness Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 258-261 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1444413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1444413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:258-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1444323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Nelson Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson Title: Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of Shinto, nature, and ideology in contemporary Japan: Making sacred forests Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 261-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1444323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1444323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:261-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1478939_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ian Reader Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Reader Title: Religion in Japanese daily life, by David C. Lewis, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2017, viii+ 346 pp., EUR €115 (hardback), ISBN 9781138677982 Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 265-268 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1478939 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1478939 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:265-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1486275_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yoshiko Matsumoto Author-X-Name-First: Yoshiko Author-X-Name-Last: Matsumoto Title: Review of Care communication: Making a home in a Japanese eldercare facility Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 269-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1486275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1486275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:2:p:269-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1572970_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-1 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1572970 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1572970 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:1-1 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1563346_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yusuke Mazumi Author-X-Name-First: Yusuke Author-X-Name-Last: Mazumi Title: What shapes local demand for ‘guest worker’ migrants in Japan? The case of the seafood processing industry Abstract: The Technical Intern Training Program has served as a de facto guest worker program for receiving low-skilled migrants during the last quarter century in Japan. While the program enables certain industries to employ migrants, significant local variation exists in the degree to which these industries depend on them. Focusing on the seafood processing industry, this study investigates local economic, demographic, and industrial factors that shape labor demand for technical intern trainee migrants. Using municipal-level data created from official sources including the 2013 Census of Fisheries, the study found that characteristics of the local seafood processing industry, namely relative employment size and productivity, are important predictors affecting the employment of technical intern trainees. In addition, contrary to the predominant assumption in the labor migration literature, the results positively associate productivity with the employment of technical intern trainees. This outcome is perhaps related to the focus of this study, namely a comparison not between industries, but between localities in a single industry. Another important reason may be that companies stable in production, which are more productive than unstable businesses with limited operations, are more likely to employ migrants in the regulatory context of the Technical Intern Training Program. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 2-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1563346 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1563346 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:2-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1543244_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hidenori Nakamura Author-X-Name-First: Hidenori Author-X-Name-Last: Nakamura Title: Six years after: ‘Fukushima memories’ and continued willingness to participate in energy and environmental policy-making process in Japan Abstract: An internet-based social survey was conducted longitudinally in urbanised and nuclear-power-plant-hosting prefectures from 2015 to 2017, covering 12 prefectures in four regions by 2017, to measure temporal variations and geographical differences in the willingness to participate in random-sample citizen deliberations on energy and environmental policy in post-Fukushima Japan. The four regions were selected to provide extensive coverage of views in relation to perceptions of disaster damage and of nuclear power plant operations after disasters. A χ2 test for independence and regression analysis were applied. Statistical analysis revealed that the willingness of Japanese citizens to be involved in participatory energy and environmental governance has either remained steady or increased. This holds regardless of the prefectures of residence and of different ‘Fukushima memories,’ and despite the apparent indifference to Fukushima in the political arena and in the mass media, as well as concerns of a rapidly decaying psychological Fukushima ‘half-life’ in terms of its significance. Six years later, the damage caused by and the memories of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster are asymmetrically distributed across different regions and individuals. Given the ongoing willingness of Japanese citizens to be involved in participatory governance, a deliberative democratic process could be a tool to reintegrate divided and suffering societies. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 21-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1543244 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1543244 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:21-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1556495_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pilvi Posio Author-X-Name-First: Pilvi Author-X-Name-Last: Posio Title: Reconstruction machizukuri and negotiating safety in post-3.11 community recovery in Yamamoto Abstract: In 2011, the 3.11 triple disaster of The Great East Japan Earthquake, the ensuing tsunami and the nuclear accident shook both the built and social environments of local communities in Tōhoku, Japan. To support successful community recovery, local participation has been implemented in many localities in the form of machizukuri, or bottom-up resident participation in place governance and community building. However, massive building projects have delayed reconstruction and social recovery is still ongoing. This research argues that community recovery may be further delayed because of renegotiation of spatial and social safety triggered by reconstruction policies. Based on ethnographic data collected during eight months of fieldwork in the tsunami-stricken town of Yamamoto, this research analyzes machizukuri groups as collective actors who are constructing place-frames characterized by insecurity and the redefinition of the social and geographical borders of a post-disaster community. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 40-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1556495 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1556495 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:40-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1558023_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anya C. Benson Author-X-Name-First: Anya C. Author-X-Name-Last: Benson Title: Becoming Purikyua: Building the lifestyle-text in Japanese girls’ franchises Abstract: The didactic elements of Japanese children’s media texts have assumed new forms alongside recent developments in franchising strategies. This paper argues that space-based franchising in Purikyua, a popular girls’ transmedia text, exemplifies a trend towards creating Japanese girls’ texts that use participatory activities to create environments that emphasise the potentially accessible nature of idealised gendered and commercialised identities. The instructive elements of girls’ transmedia texts find their fullest realisation in the creation of text-based spaces where girls are encouraged to enter the text and practise a Purikyua lifestyle. This article analyses the structure of three such text-based spaces, outlining their role in building a media system that seeks to guide children’s movements through the spaces of contemporary Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 61-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1558023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1558023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:61-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1522075_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert C. Marshall Author-X-Name-First: Robert C. Author-X-Name-Last: Marshall Title: Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and mother’s indulgent affection Abstract: Structural analysis of the Japanese anime Doraemon reveals the source of the unimaginable popularity of this children’s cartoon in the paradigmatic structure ‘Doraemon’s gadgets : Nobita’s problems :: Doraemon : Nobita.’ The paradigmatic structure’s minor contradiction shows us that neither Nobita’s childish childhood problems nor the hyper-technology of the future Doraemon pulls from its pouch, as funny as they can be made to seem, matter in this world; but the major contradiction, that the practices of affectionate indulgence of Japanese mothering both do and do not build children’s characters to succeed in the outside world, presents a relationship that Japanese children and their parents can never rehearse enough. In this long-running myth, the role of Mother is played by Doraemon. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 79-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1522075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1522075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:79-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1480861_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ronald Saladin Author-X-Name-First: Ronald Author-X-Name-Last: Saladin Title: Cool Japan – Case studies from Japan’s cultural and creative industries Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 99-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1480861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1480861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:99-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1524192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elizabeth Miles Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Miles Title: Cool Japanese men: Studying new masculinities at Cambridge Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 102-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1524192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1524192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:102-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1485267_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert Hoppens Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Hoppens Title: Japan–China relations in the modern era Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 105-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1485267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1485267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:105-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1490683_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Cussen Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Cussen Title: Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 107-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1490683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1490683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:107-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1522076_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wybe Kuitert Author-X-Name-First: Wybe Author-X-Name-Last: Kuitert Title: Review of spaces in translation – Japanese Gardens and the West Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 111-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1522076 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1522076 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:1:p:111-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2131991_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Norio Okada Author-X-Name-First: Norio Author-X-Name-Last: Okada Title: Rethinking Japan’s depopulation problem: Reflecting on over 30 years of research with Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture and the potential of SMART Governance Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 210-227 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2131991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2131991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:210-227 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2119521_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Keiichi Satoh Author-X-Name-First: Keiichi Author-X-Name-Last: Satoh Title: Left-libertarian values and post-Fukushima social movements: Analyzing newcomers to protests in Japan Abstract: The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011 (3/11) resulted in a significant upsurge of protests in Japan. Previous studies have reported the importance of newcomers (i.e. citizens who first began to participate in protests after 3/11) in such protests. However, a comprehensive picture of these newcomers remains unknown due to the absence of large-scale quantitative datasets. Based on the results of an online survey of approximately 80,000 citizens in the Greater Tokyo area conducted in the winter of 2017, this paper analyzes newcomers and factors that influence their participation in post-3/11 protests. Newcomers account for 40% of protesters and are characterized by their left-libertarian values such as direct democracy, cultural liberalism, antiauthoritarianism, and environmentalism. The newcomers had experience in low-cost social movements and were triggered to be a protester through the perceived social crises caused by 3/11 to which their libertarian values made them sensitive. Some newcomers cultivated a collective identity and friendship through their participation in protests, particularly those who protested in front of the prime minister’s office. By comparing these data with those of pre-3/11 studies, it can be concluded that the “new protest cycle” after 3/11 can be seen as the second wave of the large-scale new social movement in Japanese civil society. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 157-186 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2119521 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2119521 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:157-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2095869_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ernst Lokowandt Author-X-Name-First: Ernst Author-X-Name-Last: Lokowandt Title: Spannungen im Japanischen Kaiserhaus: Prinzen als Oppositionelle in Krisen-, Kriegs- und Besatzungszeit 1930-1951 (Tensions in the Japanese imperial house: Princes as opposition members in the period of crisis, war and occupation 1930-1951), by Gerhard Krebs, OAG Iudicium Verlag, 2021 Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 248-251 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2095869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2095869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:248-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2095783_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isabel Fassbender Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Fassbender Title: Family planning and life planning in contemporary Japan: The “active pursuit of pregnancy” (ninkatsu) phenomenon and its stakeholders Abstract: This article examines neoliberal bio-political strategies by scrutinizing a current discourse concerning fertility in mass media and the policy-making arena, a narrative formed around the catchy word creation “active pursuit of pregnancy” (ninkatsu). In the discourse of ninkatsu, which debuted in a women’s magazine in 2011 and inspired a similar narrative in new policies aimed at fighting the low birth rate, young women are encouraged to generate favorable circumstances for having children as early as possible in their life. For instance, these incorporate the management of personal conditions such as career and marriage as well as thorough life planning including deliberations on physiological factors which affect the “maintenance” of a fertile body. Drawing on concrete examples from a narrative in new demographic policies, a special ninkatsu edition of said women’s magazine, a family planning guidebook for young women, and a TV documentary focusing on the aging of egg cells, the claims of the article are threefold. First, by shedding light on the involvement of stakeholders in media and the health care industry together with political actors, a broader range of stakeholders than solely policy makers in the strategies of contemporary population politics is highlighted. Second, the article shows that the contemporary narrative of family planning revolves around the rule of self-responsibility and self-optimization. Third, by taking a gender perspective, the article points out how women’s bodies are exploited in the name of “autonomy” for demographic national goals as well as for economic profit making. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 228-244 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2095783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2095783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:228-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1899566_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ernils Larsson Author-X-Name-First: Ernils Author-X-Name-Last: Larsson Title: Sacred heritage in Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 255-258 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1899566 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1899566 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:255-258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1913794_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michio Arimitsu Author-X-Name-First: Michio Author-X-Name-Last: Arimitsu Title: Transpacific correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s black studies Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 259-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1913794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1913794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:259-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2112479_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julia Gerster Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Gerster Author-Name: Elizabeth Maly Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Maly Title: Japan’s Disaster Memorial Museums and framing 3.11: Othering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in cultural memory Abstract: With the proliferation of several dozen new exhibits and museums dedicated to this specific disaster, the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, can be considered a turning point in the preservation of disaster memory in Japan. Although there is limited research on disaster museums, they play a significant role in shaping cultural memory of 3.11, as they are regarded as reliable, objective institutions of memory. Through analysis of 17 government-established 3.11 museums, this research explores the following questions: How do public disaster museums frame their representations of 3.11, and what official narrative is created within the cultural memory of the triple disaster in Japan? Drawing from analysis of the museums’ mission statements and exhibitions, and interviews with curators and museum staff, we argue that most disaster museums support narratives of overcoming hardships to contribute to a better future, showing continuity with narratives typical of other memorial museums such as WWII, or pre-3.11 disaster museums. In contrast to the commemoration of war and its influence on cultural memory, disaster museums have received relatively little scholarly attention. Yet, these forward-looking messages, combined with tendencies of museums to focus on local disaster experiences and emphasize disaster risk reduction with an artificial separation between man-made disasters vs. natural hazards, contributes to an othering of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in cultural memory, as an outlier in Japan’s long history of disasters. Without full representation of the compound disaster, understanding of 3.11 and the effective transmission of the intended lessons is severely limited. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 187-209 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2112479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2112479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:187-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1985222_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Lughezzani Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Lughezzani Title: Gender and the Koseki in contemporary Japan: Surname, power, and privilege Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 252-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1985222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1985222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:252-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2133576_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the managing editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 125-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2133576 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2133576 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:125-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2112478_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayaka Löschke Author-X-Name-First: Ayaka Author-X-Name-Last: Löschke Title: Radiation moms’ organizational survival for a decade: A shift from advocacy to non-advocacy activities Abstract: This article examines changes in Japan’s social movement organizations (SMOs) after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, focusing on mothers against radiation as key actors. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan’s SMOs enjoyed not only a resurgence of mass protests, but also an increase in advocacy activities and mothers’ participation in relation to radiation protection. Furthermore, some mothers’ SMOs against radiation survived for a decade. Such longevity is internationally unusual for an SMO. However, these SMOs have been virtually unstudied with regards to this longevity. How did mothers’ SMOs against radiation fight for survival for more than a decade? To answer this question, this project conducted long-term ethnographic research on a mothers’ SMO, the Kodomo-tachi o Hōshanō kara Mamoru Zenkoku Nettowāku (the National Network of Parents to Protect Children from Radiation; the “Kodomozenkoku”). Founded in 2011, Kodomozenkoku has been active for more than a decade. It recruited over 350 local SMOs as rank-and-file and shifted its focus from national advocacy activities to local non-advocacy activities. Based on this case study of Kodomozenkoku, this research argues that Kodomozenkoku’s flexibility in its transformation concerning goals, internal structure and interorganizational relations enabled this newcomer SMO to survive for over a decade. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 136-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2112478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2112478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:136-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2022573_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrich Teichler Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich Author-X-Name-Last: Teichler Title: Family-run universities in Japan: Sources of inbuilt resilience in the face of demographic pressure, 1992-2030 Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 245-247 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.2022573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.2022573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:245-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2127635_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wiemann Anna Author-X-Name-First: Wiemann Author-X-Name-Last: Anna Author-Name: Florentine Koppenborg Author-X-Name-First: Florentine Author-X-Name-Last: Koppenborg Author-Name: Tobias Weiss​ Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Weiss​ Title: Continuity and change 10 years after 3.11: Processes and dynamics in state-society relations Abstract: This introduction presents the three papers of the special section and embeds them in the broader debate on continuity and change in state-society relations within the first decade after the triple disaster of March 2011. We first discuss reconstruction efforts by the government and their social and environmental impacts. This is followed by an assessment of changes in civil society and dynamics in state-civil society relations. We find that access to politics became increasingly difficult for civic groups since 2012. This led many of them to readjust their strategies for pursuing their goals. We then show how the three papers tie into these debates and carve out issues for further research: i.e., whether demobilized sectors of civil society would be ready for remobilization in case of a new political opportunity, the long-term effect of newcomers with new left values on the protest scene, as well as the state’s power over the meaning-making of the disaster and how this feeds into national identity and politics. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 127-135 Issue: 2 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2127635 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2127635 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:2:p:127-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783747_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florian Coulmas Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Coulmas Title: Editorial Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783748_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Barbara G. Holthus Author-X-Name-First: Barbara G. Author-X-Name-Last: Holthus Author-Name: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Author-X-Name-First: Kristina Author-X-Name-Last: Iwata-Weickgenannt Title: Preface Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-6 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783749_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yoshimichi Sato Author-X-Name-First: Yoshimichi Author-X-Name-Last: Sato Title: Stability and increasing fluidity in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system Abstract: We argue that stability and increasing fluidity coexist in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system. It is often argued that the weakening of Japanese employment practices has made the labor market more flexible. While there is evidence to support this argument, it misses an important factor in the labor market, namely social stratification. We suggest that some parts of the labor market have become more fluid, while other parts have been stable. To test this prediction, we examine empirical findings made in the 2005 Social Stratification and Social Mobility Survey Project, covering such topics as education and inequality, increasing fluidity and disparity among young workers, job changes, and income inequality. Our findings on education and inequality show that stratification in the educational system affects the entry of graduates into regular or non-regular employment. Our analysis of young workers shows that while the longterm employment practice persists in large firms and the public sector and thus shows stability, mobility between regular and non-regular employment is difficult and that young female graduates from high schools and junior colleges recently find it difficult to enter the regular employment sector. Our analysis of the effect of education on job changes shows that the income of less educated workers who change jobs has decreased recently. We also find increasing income inequality between professionals and other occupations and examine the intergenerational transmission of income. We conclude that these findings generally support our prediction that stability and increasing fluidity coexist in the contemporary Japanese labor market. We consider the implications of this for the study of social stratification in Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 7-21 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:7-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783750_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shinji Kojima Author-X-Name-First: Shinji Author-X-Name-Last: Kojima Title: When dismissal becomes a business transaction: Analysis of the processes and consequences of haken-giri under the global recession Abstract: This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rodosha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three parties that characterize dispatched labor: the user, the employer, and the employee. The Worker Dispatching Act, which was enacted and then deregulated, enabled Japanese corporations to use dispatched workers while securing the capacity to remove them from their workplaces as a business transaction and not within the bounds of an employer-employee relationship. Using the theoretical framework of risk, the paper analyzes the emergence and spread of the triangular labor relationship as risk being shifted from the corporate level to the individual dispatched workers. It examines the consequences of the shift of risk by introducing cases of dismissal from fieldwork conducted during the global recession over the winter of 2009. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 23-45 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:23-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783751_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Chiavacci Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Chiavacci Title: Divided society model and social cleavages in Japanese politics: No alignment by social class, but dealignment of rural-urban division Abstract: In recent years, Japan has been marked by fundamental changes. From the late 1990s onward, a new model of Japan as a divided society has replaced the former model of Japan as a general middle class society with a very high degree of equality regarding chances and outcome. Moreover, the national elections of 2007 and 2009 resulted in a historical defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and in a new government led by the Democratic Party Japan (DPJ). Using the framework of social cleavage theory, this paper analyses the relationship between these two changes in a historical perspective. It raises the questions of whether and how the new divided society model is connected to the recent change of power. Has the ascendance of the divided society model and its establishment as the dominant model and common sense played a role in the crushing defeat of the LDP and the change in power in the two recent elections? The main argument is that postwar Japanese politics and over five decades of LDP dominance were marked by a social cleavage between urban and rural areas. While a social cleavage by social class never fully developed in Japanese politics, stable and strong support by rural voters was the main pillar on which the LDP’s long success story was based. The new model of Japan as a divided society has played an important role in the change in power in the two recent elections. Although this new divided society model has not led to an alignment by social class - as one may have expected - it has resulted in a dealignment in the rural-urban division. The demise of the LDP was primarily due to its recent electoral defeat in rural areas, where it had once been invincible. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 47-74 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:47-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783752_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: URS Matthias Zachmann Author-X-Name-First: URS Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Zachmann Title: Eine andere Form der Ungleichheit: Behinderung und soziale Stratifikation in Japans kakusa shakai-Diskussion Abstract: Political discourse on the “society of widening social gaps” (kakusa shakai) in Japan largely focuses on the middle classes. On the one hand, the concept voices the fears of a majority of Japanese citizens of social downgrading and the eventual drop into the new sub-class of “working poor”. Neo-liberal politicians, on the other hand, defend social stratification as the natural and eventually desirable outcome of competition, which allows people to “challenge” their current social status and awards perseverance with upward mobility. Both positions, however, seem somewhat self-centered as they largely neglect those who are already at the fringes of Japanese society and, by the unfortunate circumstance of nature or accident, not able to enter the competition on the same terms as the majority. Disability in Japan, albeit less visible than in Western societies, is not a marginal issue even by numbers: 7.2 million people in Japan have some form of physical, mental or psychological disability (as of 2006). Considering that 87 percent of these live with their family, this multiplies the number of those affected by disability in their living circumstances to a sizable percentage of the total population. How then does this social group experience the kakusa shakai? Mindful of the social and demographic changes, the Japanese government since 1990 has initiated a flood of social reforms which, among others, also sought to improve the position of disabled persons by contributing to their equal participation in society. The Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (Shogaisha jiritsu shienho) of 2005 constitutes the sum of these endeavors so far, but has right from the start earned the criticism of disability organizations and service providers for being too neo-liberalist and heralding the retreat of the welfare state in disability policies. This article discusses the discourse on disability and social inequality focusing on the Disabilities Act, arguing that especially providers of disability services tend to stress the link between disability and social inequality, not only to represent the rights and interests ofpersons with disabilities, but also in order to fight for their own existence in an increasingly competitive welfare market. Thus, the debate on disability and social inequality is linked with the wider discourse on social inequality, economic competition, and the precariousness of local finances. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 75-98 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:75-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783753_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christopher Bondy Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Bondy Title: Understanding buraku inequality: Improvements and challenges Abstract: Groups on the margins of society tend to find themselves in a tenuous position, often the first to bear the brunt of economic downturns and the last to reap the benefits of economic booms. This article explores inequalities faced by the burakumin, Japan’s largest minority group and long on the margins of society, as seen in education, occupation, and living situations. The paper pays particular attention to buraku social movement organizations, governmental actions, and local experiences, both in an historical and contemporary context. It examines how, at the macro-level, social movement organizations have challenged discrimination broadly, encouraging governmental action to reduce inequality facing the burakumin. While these macro-level approaches are important, it is also essential to consider this diversity of perspectives “on the ground.” Thus, based upon ethnographic study, the paper considers how two organizations in particular approach buraku issues at the local level in two different communities. The diversity of social movement perspectives is apparent within communities, but is easy to miss when viewed from the outside. Seeing these approaches at the community level, however, we still find inequality, in particular in the form of social and geographic isolation. Overall, this study shows how understanding the heterogeneity of the buraku experience and various challenges to their living situations enables an even deeper understanding of their lives as well as their approach to challenging inequality. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 99-113 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:99-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783754_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roman Rosenbaum Author-X-Name-First: Roman Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenbaum Title: From the traditions of J-horror to the representation of kakusa shakai in Kurosawa’s film Tokyo Sonata Abstract: This article investigates the popular cultural implications of the “gap-widening society” (kakusa shakai) as identified by Yamada Masahiro. A recent revival of sociological terms like freeter and NEET in popular cultural media reflects an increasing concern with the rapidly changing social landscape in contemporary Japanese society. Starting with the phenomenon of postwar economic growth, each subsequent generation of Japanese has allegorically and symbolically represented the dramatic social changes they experienced through popular cultural media like film and manga.This article also examines how Japan’s growing stratification is situated within the popular cultural media of recent films. Special consideration is given to the plight of Japan’s older working-class generations who are profoundly affected by the accelerating kakusa shakai trend of recent years. This concern is especially evident in the film Tokyo Sonata directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi in 2008, which depicts a family in crisis because of the traditional breadwinner losing his job. In comparison, Tanada Yuki’s Hyakuman-en to nigamushi onna [One million yen and the nigamushi woman], which was also published in 2008, depicts the contemporary social challenges of the much younger freeter generation upon graduating from university. The aim of this investigation is to gauge how the current discourse on Japan’s “gap-widening society” is encoded in recent literature and films. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 115-136 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:115-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783755_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Schad-Seifert Annette Author-X-Name-First: Schad-Seifert Author-X-Name-Last: Annette Title: Gender and class in Miura Atsushi’s karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 137-152 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:137-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783756_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susanne Klien Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Klien Title: Collaboration or confrontation? Local and non-local actors in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Abstract: This article deals with selected contemporary art projects that have involved the collaboration of heterogeneous actors in the framework of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, which started in 2000 in southern Niigata Prefecture. Originally initiated as a revitalization plan to tackle depopulation and obsolescence in this vast rural area, the triennal has been envisaged and implemented by the Tokyo-based commercial gallery Art Front Gallery (AFG) in cooperation with municipal and prefectural agencies. I will examine how the collaboration between local residents, non-local artist(s), and volunteers has evolved in three projects that were all carried out in mountain villages. The first project entitled “Ubusuna no Ie” was initiated by a Tokyo-based editor and his staff for the 2006 festival, involving the restoration of an abandoned house, which now serves as a space to exhibit pottery. As a result of the project, the village women have started a restaurant in the house, which has been an enormous success, attracting hundreds of visitors per day in August 2009. The second project implemented in 2006 involved the cooperation of a British artist group called Grizedale Arts with the locals in a secluded marginal village called Toge in order to find ways to revitalize the village. The third ongoing artwork is concerned with promoting a brand of traditional Japanese paper (washi) by combining it with contemporary design and involves the cooperation between the vernacular washi production site and a Yokohama-based artist. Introducing a model to examine the development of kyodo [literally: “working together”] by defining various stages of cooperation, the key issues I intend to explore are as follows: (1) What are the main factors that influence the implementation of the project, the intensity of cooperation, and its success? (2) What stages do we observe in the individual cases discussed here? Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 153-178 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:153-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783757_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hein Ina Author-X-Name-First: Hein Author-X-Name-Last: Ina Title: Constructing difference in Japan: Literary counter-images of the Okinawa boom Abstract: This article’s approach is indebted to the method of discourse analysis from a cultural studies’ perspective. It attempts to position and analyze literary texts by four authors from Okinawa – Medoruma Shun (*1960), Matayoshi Eiki (*1949), Akahoshi Toshizo (*1974) and Tefu Tefu P. (*1976) – in the context of the Okinawa boom which has flooded Japanese popular culture and mass media since the 1990s. It will be shown that these writers clearly position themselves against the Okinawa boom. On the one hand, the texts selected for analysis in this paper construct Okinawa as a ‘different Japan’ – just like the images created by Japanese mass media and popular literature on the main islands. On the other hand, though, the authors subvert the mainstream discourse on ‘Okinawan difference’: Medoruma addresses inconvenient topics which otherwise remain excluded from popular images of Okinawa and, at the same time, highlights Okinawas inner diversity, thus destabilizing the idea of‘one Okinawan identity’. Matayoshi stays ambivalent in creating Okinawa as a space which is culturally different from Japan: His text abounds with markers for Okina- wan-ness, but at the same time his main character keeps an ironic distance to ‘Okinawan traditions’. Akahoshi and Tefu Tefu eventually pick up prevalent topoi from mainstream discourse and turn them into their opposites. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 179-204 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:179-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783758_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elise Foxworth Author-X-Name-First: Elise Author-X-Name-Last: Foxworth Title: The personal is political in Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]: A ‘little narrative’ by zainichi Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung Abstract: In 1971 Japan-based second-generation Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung became the first ‘foreigner’ in Japan to win the esteemed Akutagawa Prize for Belles Lettres for his semi-autobiographical novel Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]. It recounts the life and death of a young Korean woman, Chang Suri, during the 1940s, as remembered by her son. Whilst fascism, democracy, and Korean nationalism constitute the meta-narratives that informed the lives of Lee’s generation in (post)colonial Japan between the 1940s and 1960s, the writer underscores the importance of the little narrative for exploring identity and a sense of belonging. Eschewing hyper-political approaches that attempt to explain the whole movement of history and social life or nationhood as a ‘grand narrative’, Lee’s poignant rendition of the life and death of a young woman is rather a ‘little narrative’ ofpersonal suffering and redemption. Lee’s story functions as a sinse t’aryong (i.e., a traditional Korean form of oral lamentation and narrative storytelling), which allows him to point to ‘Korean-ness’ as an anchor. This anchor secures the listener to a solid ‘home' or cultural place of reference that can support them in their search for a sense of identity and belonging in the context of colonialist oppression and dislocation. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 205-221 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 22 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2010-012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2010-012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:22:y:2010:i:1-2:p:205-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351023_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lyle De Souza Author-X-Name-First: Lyle Author-X-Name-Last: De Souza Title: Rooted-transnationalism and the representational function of food in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms Abstract: This paper uses a close reading combined with Koichi Iwabuchi’s nascent concept rooted-transnationalism to illustrate the representational function of food in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms. By examining the representational function of food, we can understand how Goto chooses to arbitrate the belonging of the Canadian Nikkei characters in her novel. The three generations in the matrilineal Tonkatsu family begin the novel with varying (almost stereotyped) cultural identities, but by understanding how their identity is represented through food as the novel progresses we can see these identities worked into a nuanced dialogue with the modern diaspora condition. We learn that explanations of diaspora identity in literature using transnationalism as a framework can be enhanced by considering cultural identity in terms of its rootedness, particularly how it interacts with sociocultural factors at varying spatial levels. Understanding the representational function of food in a rooted-transnational context shows how food problematises the belonging of Nikkei yet can also provide emancipation from the challenge of diasporic cultural identity. Through this analysis of Goto’s novel, we can gain a deeper appreciation of the complexity of modern Nikkei diaspora cultural identities. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 132-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:132-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1380926_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: iv-iv Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1380926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1380926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:iv-iv Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351046_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Suma Ikeuchi Author-X-Name-First: Suma Author-X-Name-Last: Ikeuchi Title: From ethnic religion to generative selves: Pentecostalism among Nikkei Brazilian migrants in Japan Abstract: Starting in the early 1990s, Brazil-derived Pentecostal denominations have flourished among Nikkei Brazilian migrant communities in Japan. While some researchers have characterized the phenomenon of Pentecostal conversion in this ethnographic context as a formation of ‘ethnic religion,’ the individuals often characterize themselves as primarily Christian. This article takes this apparent disconnect as the point of departure to investigate the relationship between ethnicity and religious identity. The concept of ethnic religion indicates an overlap between ethnic group and religious community, oftentimes prioritizing ethnic categories as the basic units of analysis. My ethnographic findings based on 14 months of fieldwork in Toyota, Japan, however, suggest that the very boundary of ‘ethnic group’ is fluid and unstable, which in turn shows that ethnicity cannot be taken as an analytical given. By tracing the varying narratives of four migrant converts, I detail the ways in which Pentecostalism in fact contributes to the proliferation of identities, both ethnic and non-ethnic. For example, migrant converts speak of Pentecostal ideas, practices, and networks as ‘Brazilian,’ ‘Japanese,’ and/or ‘just Christian,’ depending on the context. In conclusion, I argue that Pentecostal churches in this ethnographic context seem to give rise to generative selves rather than an ethnic religion. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 214-229 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351046 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351046 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:214-229 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351026_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yvonne Siemann Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne Author-X-Name-Last: Siemann Title: ‘Transmitting the message of Okinawa by drums’: Representations of Japanese-ness and Okinawan-ness in Okinawan dance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia Abstract: This paper examines the role of dance in identity construction among young descendants of Okinawan migrants who settled in Colonia Okinawa in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in the 1950s and 1960s. Ryūkyūkoku Matsuridaiko, a modernized form of eisā dance that is traditionally performed at the Buddhist soul festival Obon, offers a new way for these young descendants to reconnect to their ancestors’ culture. For most observers and some practitioners, the colourful dance represents Japanese culture and values that in a Bolivian context are commonly related to the socio-economic success of this immigrant minority. However, my analysis of Ryūkyūkoku Matsuridaiko will demonstrate that the dance furthermore serves the need to negotiate issues of identity among the younger generation of an ethnic minority of Okinawan ancestry within the Japanese descendant minority. Drawing on participant observation and interviews from several stays in Santa Cruz between 2013 and 2016, my analysis illustrates how this dance is used to express and negotiate identity issues between Bolivia, Okinawa and Japan and how it connects to larger discourses of a multilocal Okinawan community. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 177-192 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:177-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351025_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jutta Teuwsen Author-X-Name-First: Jutta Author-X-Name-Last: Teuwsen Title: Making place: Old Japan at the Japanese department store Shirokiya in Honolulu Abstract: In comparison to common department stores all over the world, the Japanese department store Shirokiya in Honolulu, Hawai’i, seems to be more than just a department store. For sure, goods are displayed and sold effectively, accompanied by thoughtful marketing strategies. But aside from this, elderly people stroll around with their arms crossed behind their backs, obviously not intending to buy anything at all. At a closer look, it appears that Shirokiya as a specific place in Honolulu plays an essential role for the elderly Japanese Americans of the city through honouring the heritage of their ancestors. With this in mind, Shirokiya shows that analysing places like this department store leads to unique findings for diaspora research including spatial theory approaches. Therefore, in this paper, I will show how applying spatial theory, with a focus on place(s) instead of space as merely a geographical unit, extends the scope of findings in diaspora research. Drawing from the terminology of Marc Augé, I show how his concepts of places and non-places can help shed light on the important meaning of the department store for these Japanese Americans. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 162-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:162-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351024_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hisako Omori Author-X-Name-First: Hisako Author-X-Name-Last: Omori Title: Eating Japanese food in diaspora as identity building: The case of a Japanese Canadian church Abstract: In the life of a Japanese Canadian Christian church, food – especially Japanese cuisine – occupies a central place in parish life. Food not only nurtures members of the congregation physically but it serves as a focal point for collective identity formation. In the community where the majority of members are still survivors of Japanese Canadian internment during World War II, I argue that by planning, preparing, and serving food, women constantly create and maintain the imagined homeland in a Canadian diaspora. Based on 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork, this paper illustrates the ways in which food serves as a symbolic means to create a homeland and define women’s position within that cultural creation. The paper also illustrates the ways in which ‘race’ is experienced in dynamic ways in relation to the group’s shifting position in the global arena by contrasting the bitter experience of Japanese Canadians during World War II with the recent popularity of Japanese food. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 148-161 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:148-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351045_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfram Manzenreiter Author-X-Name-First: Wolfram Author-X-Name-Last: Manzenreiter Title: Living under more than one sun: The Nikkei Diaspora in the Americas Abstract: Currently more than 2.5 million Americans living on the South and North American continents are Nikkei or descendants of Japanese migrants. The history of their forefathers’ emigration from Japan and the meaning of ethnicity and citizenship while living in the diaspora has attracted considerable scholarly attention, which was renewed by the recent wave of sojourner migration by Latin Americans of Japanese origin into Japan. Virtually nothing is known so far about the impact of “return migration” and the “returnees’ remigration” on the diaspora in Latin America. To what degree have ideas of ethnic or political loyalty, of national and cultural identity, been shifting one way or the other due to the increased proximity to their ancestors’ place of origin? And how have hostile or discriminatory treatment by homeland and hostland societies impacted on the collective image of the Nikkei in Latin America? The Nikkei experience of living abroad bears the potential for rethinking the meaning of diaspora. As the return migration to the land of their ancestors has not fulfilled the postulated ‘negation of a diaspora’ (Clifford 1994), it has squared the sensation of being diasporic in the sense of being displaced twice and having multiple relationships with distinct nations which are neither just homeland nor hostland. Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Japan, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, I analyze the shifting functions of the pillars of migrant communities, i.e. family household, school and hometown associations. I argue that the Nikkei are entangled in a “squared diaspora” in which the juxtaposition of homeland and hostland itself becomes questionable, instable and fluctuating. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 193-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351045 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351045 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:193-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351022_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayumi Takenaka Author-X-Name-First: Ayumi Author-X-Name-Last: Takenaka Title: Immigrant integration through food: Nikkei cuisine in Peru Abstract: In this paper, I use the lens of food to analyze immigrant integration, focusing on Nikkei cuisine, a type of Japanese ‘fusion’ food that emerged in the context of Japanese immigrants’ integration in Peru. Through the process of culinary transformation and food discourse in Peru, my aim is to analyze how a new genre of cuisine emerges and what it tells us about immigrant integration. I illustrate this by focusing on Nikkei Peruvians, or later-generation descendants of Japanese immigrants in Peru, whose identities have long been regarded as ambiguous despite their enhanced status and representation in the country’s political and economic arenas in recent years. The emergence and growing popularization of Nikkei cuisine, I argue, symbolizes the integration of Nikkei Peruvians into Peruvian society. Yet, the representation and recognition of Nikkei food as ‘Peruvian and Japanese fusion food’ indicates how Nikkei Peruvians integrate in Peru as Nikkei Peruvians. This was facilitated in the context where Peru increasingly celebrates its cultural diversity, promoting fusion food at the core of its identity in trying to brand itself as a diverse nation and boost its economy. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 117-131 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351022 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351022 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:117-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1354752_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Millie Creighton Author-X-Name-First: Millie Author-X-Name-Last: Creighton Title: A tree house in Tokyo: Reflections on Nikkei, citizenship, belonging, architecture, and art on the 75th anniversary of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment Abstract: This think piece discusses the continuing influence of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment, which commenced 75 years ago in 1942 and also affected Nikkei from 13 Latin American countries. Contextualizing the Canadian case, the essay explores the lives of Raymond Moriyama, a Nikkei architect interned despite his Canadian birth and citizenship, and William Allister, a White Canadian Prisoner of War (POW) of Japan, and their mutual attempts to overcome bitterness through their architecture and art. The article explores the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo designed by Moriyama as a tree house, reflecting Moriyama’s belief that a tree house is a special place where the human spirit can dwell and soar. The Canadian Embassy in Japan as a tree house proclaims possibilities of addressing historic wrongs and embracing diversity. North American Nikkei attempts to prevent further injustices against others are related to the contemporary context in which some North American voices advocate a registry of Arab Americans. The essay asserts that the official Redress acknowledgements by the United States and Canada in 1988 that the internment of people of Japanese descent was wrong stand as a precedent against such targeting of specific groups. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 246-260 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1354752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1354752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:246-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1380925_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: iii-iii Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1380925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1380925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:iii-iii Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351047_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ana Sueyoshi Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Sueyoshi Title: Intergenerational circular migration and differences in identity building of Nikkei Peruvians Abstract: This study analyzes the motives of first and second generations of Nikkei Peruvians for circular migration between Japan and Peru. Adjusting their expectations with the economic demands of each country creates a circular movement that is associated with triple-win outcomes. However, while for the first generation, circular migration is a household economic strategy that allows migrants to fulfill their role as breadwinners and provide material well-being to their families, for the second generation circular migration offers a venue for building their professional careers and for self-realization. Migration movements therefore serve not only as a source of material or economic well-being, but also of emotional and moral well-being. The first generation shows a passive attitude by adjusting themselves to the ups and downs of the global economy and changes in the division of labor, while the second generation actively draws on language competence and professional skills to become agents of their own mobility. The difference between these two generations influences how each group perceives each country and the processes of identity building in each group. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 230-245 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351047 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351047 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:230-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351021_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfram Manzenreiter Author-X-Name-First: Wolfram Author-X-Name-Last: Manzenreiter Title: Squared diaspora: Representations of the Japanese diaspora across time and space Abstract: This introduction to the special issue on the Japanese diaspora sets the background to the theme by summarizing the key components of diaspora theory and pointing out some fallacies and conceptual shortcomings this volume attempts to overcome. The article argues that the complexity of the contemporary diaspora of Japanese emigrants and their descendants at the intersection with the emerging Nikkei diaspora provides peculiar insights into the spatial dimensions and social dynamics of transmigration. Rather than taken for granted the conceptual differentiation of diaspora and homeland, it argues to understand them in terms of dynamic relationships between space, time and identity, which are realized in discourses and forms of practice. Contributions to this volume square the conceptualization of the diaspora and the homeland. They provide evidence for the argument of the ‘squared diaspora’ by pointing out the shifting alignments of locality, identity and agency. Identity and representations of diasporic belonging therefore are varying and fluid concepts, depending on generation, ascription, and collectively shared assumptions about the utilitarian value of ethnic labeling. The volume also warn of the analytic shortcoming of privileging one subjectivity like place of birth or ethnicity over all others. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 106-116 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351021 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351021 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:106-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1380927_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: v-v Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1380927 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1380927 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:v-v Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1351593_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Greetings from the Managing Editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 105-105 Issue: 2 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1351593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:2:p:105-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783815_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iza Kavedžija Author-X-Name-First: Iza Author-X-Name-Last: Kavedžija Title: Introduction: reorienting hopes Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-11 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:1-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783816_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jason Danely Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Danely Title: Hope in an ageing Japan: transience and transcendence Abstract: In Japan, today, longevity has not meant a reduction in years of dependence. As a result, anticipation of a long life also brings the troubling anticipation of problems like chronic illness and loneliness. How do older adults facing such a future create hope? The purpose of this paper is threefold: (i) to propose a conceptualization of hope as “lunar aesthetics,” that is, not as anticipation of achievement but as a process of loss and renewal; (ii) to link this process to aesthetic forms and ritual practices from my fieldwork with older adults in Kyoto; and (iii) to critically evaluate the ways current formal long-term care diverges from “lunar” hope. Drawing on Japanese associations between the moon, hope, and rituals memorializing the spirits of the dead, this paper argues that older adults engage with an alternative interpretation of hope based on transience and transcendence. Both of these offer hope to older adults by reorienting the temporal boundaries of personhood, to experience change (including decline and death) as an inherent aspect of becoming part of a larger narrative of linked generations or the natural state of life. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 13-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:13-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783817_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Brett Hack Author-X-Name-First: Brett Author-X-Name-Last: Hack Title: Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otakuculture Abstract: This essay analyzes Japan’s otaku subculture using Hirokazu Miyazaki’s (2006) definition of hope as a “reorientation of knowledge.” Erosion of postwar social systems has tended to instill a sense of hopelessness among many Japanese youth. Hopelessness manifests as two analogous kinds of refusal: individual social withdrawal and recourse to solipsistic neonationalist ideology. Previous analyses of otaku have demonstrated its connections with these two reactions. Here, I interrogate otaku culture’s relationship to neonationalism by investigating its interaction with the xenophobic online subculture known as the netto uyoku. Characterizing both subcultures as discursive practices, I argue that the similarity between netto uyoku and otaku is not one of identity but one of method. Netto uyoku discourse serves to perform an imagined nationalist persona. While otaku elements can be incorporated into netto uyoku performance, other net users invoke the otaku faculty of parody to highlight the constructed nature of netto uyoku identity through ironic recontextualization. This application of otaku principles enables a description of otaku culture as a form of social knowledge, reoriented here to defuse the climate of hopelessness purveyed by the netto uyoku. In the final section, I offer examples of subcultural knowledge being applied to national and international issues in order to indicate its further potential as a source of enabling hope for Japanese youth. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 33-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:33-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783818_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Scott North Author-X-Name-First: Scott Author-X-Name-Last: North Author-Name: Rika Morioka Author-X-Name-First: Rika Author-X-Name-Last: Morioka Title: Hope found in lives lost: karoshi and the pursuit of worker rights in Japan Abstract: Japanese social order emphasizes a superior’s responsibility for their subordinates’ well-being. This traditional “right to benevolence” is a wellspring of hope for workers. This paper describes how, in the wake of changes in employment practices since the mid-1970s, citizens’ groups and labor lawyers creatively combined advances in medicine and legal knowledge with this right to benevolence in lawsuits seeking compensation for injuries caused by overwork. The social movement against karōshi (death due to overwork) that arose from these suits first sought workers’ compensation system reforms. Later, they won legislative remedies. Rulings in Japanese courts, including the Supreme Court, affirmed employers’ legal responsibility for worker well-being to include care for accumulated fatigue and mental health. Buoyed by these successes, activists and victims’ families hopes of preventing karoshi reached new heights with the June 2014 passage of the Karoshi Prevention Countermeasures Promotion Law (Karōshi tō bōshi taisaku suishin-hō). Karoshi compensation victories, administrative rule changes, and legislative reforms raised public awareness of overwork and exploitative management practices. Nevertheless, we must conclude that, although karoshi legislation gives hope for a legal regime of employee care rights, the current law is weak and remediation only addresses the worst cases. Moreover, participation in the legislative process risks limiting the movement’s future influence. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 59-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:59-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783819_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ieva Puzo Author-X-Name-First: Ieva Author-X-Name-Last: Puzo Title: Hope amidst uncertainty: foreign scientists in contemporary Japan Abstract: The recruitment of foreign researchers has become an indispensable component of Japanese policy makers’ efforts to globalize and improve the country’s scientific institutions. By promoting the employment of foreign scientists in temporary research positions, Japan participates in the increasingly transnational circulation of academic knowledge workers. Scientists, discursively conceptualized as highly skilled workforce, are seen as participating in privileged global movements. However, the young foreign scientists enlisted to advance Japan’s research sector encounter considerable uncertainties in their work and personal lives.Focusing on the experiences of young life scientists in Osaka, this article investigates transnational scientific mobility from below. It complicates the notion of scientific workers as privileged global travelers, and examines how mobility is embedded in the minds and enlivened in the bodies of scientific workers themselves. By inquiring into the underlying relationship between the practice of mobility and hope, the article explores the diverse methods foreign researchers employ to account for the uncertainties they encounter during their own transnational movements. Demonstrating how young researchers experience and make sense not only of mobility, but also its loss, the article highlights the ways foreign scientists engage with Japan, and elaborates on the significance of immobility practices and imaginaries. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 81-99 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:81-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783820_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stephen Robertson Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Robertson Title: Hope that sustains: revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha Abstract: This paper details the “cylinder-gruel rite” (tsutsugayu shinji) observed annually on 15 January at Suwa Taisha, a Shintō shrine complex in Nagano Prefecture. The oracular ritual is an instance of the Japanese tradition of New Year’s divination (toshiura), and involves the boiling of hollow reeds or bamboo in rice gruel to augur crop yields and economic prospects for the coming year. Whereas Japan’s modernization and shift away from an agricultural economy has rendered such observances archaic, their continued practice cannot be explained solely by their heritage value as survivals of pre-modern tradition. Careful analysis of the Suwa oracle’s formal structure within the frame of Shintō practice reveals that the ritual works to intimate a transcendent sociality, an infallible source of divinatory revelation that provides a sustaining source of hopeful momentum. Consideration of the documentary history of the ritual further suggests the ways that the ritual has been leveraged by various actors throughout history to support imagined aspirational trajectories. Following Zigon’s anthropological critique that hope does not obviate human agency but necessitates and sustains it, this paper discusses the possible implications of these generative/sustaining and imagined/instrumental modes for an anthropological engagement with hope. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 101-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:1:p:101-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783786_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrike Schaede Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike Author-X-Name-Last: Schaede Title: Sunshine and Suicides in Japan: revisiting the relevance of economic determinants of suicide Abstract: This paper investigates how exposure to sunshine affects the suicide rate in Japan, especially in relation to economic variables. Using prefecturebased data on socioeconomic variables for the years 1993–2009, the paper confirms existing research in finding a significant correlation between suicides and unemployment, for both men and women. The interaction between sunshine and unemployment is also significant, and further analysis reveals that unemployment is not an important factor for suicide in high-sunshine prefectures, whereas in low-sunshine areas the effect of unemployment on the suicide rate rises. The divorce rate is highly significant and positive for men, but significant and negative for women, suggesting that many Japanese women consider divorce liberating. Current suicide research in Japan with its strong emphasis on economic variables may benefit from an inclusion of measures of general well-being. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 105-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:105-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783787_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patricia G. Steinhoff Author-X-Name-First: Patricia G. Author-X-Name-Last: Steinhoff Title: Memories of New Left protest Abstract: Collective memory studies generally focus on national commemorations of heroes and heroic events that unify nations. Recent research also examines the contribution of negative collective memories that vilify individuals and organizations, and collective memories that remain in contention. This study examines the contending collective memories that surround the protest cycle of the late 1960s to early 1970s Japan through analysis of three key events: the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967; the climactic battle between Zenkyōtō students and riot police on the Tokyo University campus 17–18 January 1969; and the Asama Sansō siege and Rengō Sekigun purge of early 1972. A heavily negative view of the entire period has solidified in public collective memory through commemorative media presentations and films that recycle visual images of the protests into a blur of senseless violence without explanation of its causes. This overwhelmingly negative collective memory reinforces the dominant values of social order while suppressing the underlying issues that sparked the protests. Those who experienced the period as student participants also view the outcomes as negative, but they keep alive more positive memories of their youthful participation in protest events and the issues that motivated them, through nostalgic commemorations and media that circulate within a New Left subculture. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 127-165 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:127-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783788_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrick Heinrich Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrich Title: Hōgen ronsō: the great Ryukyuan languages debate of 1940 Abstract: This paper analyzes a language ideological debate in which the status and utility of the Ryukyuan languages were discussed. One fraction supported the continuous oppression of the Ryukyuan languages as an inevitable means for Standard Japanese language spread in the Ryukyus. Their critics called for calmer judgment, pointing out the cultural value of the Ryukyuan languages. In the course of the debate, opposing visions of future linguistic orders in the Ryukyus emerged. It was the vision of those calling for Ryukyuan language oppression which turned into reality. The reason for such sociolinguistic change is rooted in power inequalities between the Japanese mainland and the Ryukyu Islands. Today, all Ryukyuan languages are set to become extinct by 2050 if no counter-action is taken. The language ideological notions connected to the Ryukyuan languages in the course of Japan’s social and linguistic modernization and the reproduction of these arguments by one fraction of the debate constitute the obstacles that all those seeking Ryukyuan language revitalization must surmount. They may find useful points of departure for doing so in the arguments of the critics. However, the debate is also of interest for students of linguistics and the social sciences, since their disciplines do not emerge as “neutral” in the course of debate. Rather, they constitute central pillars in the modernist quest for homogeneity and monolingualism in a linguistically diverse state. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 167-187 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:167-187 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783789_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: “Company heroes” versus “superstars”: executive pay in Japan in comparative perspective Abstract: In international comparison, the level and the performance sensitivity of executive pay in Japan are low. Both characteristics can be related to the prevalence of internal labor markets. These not only select the ones who will be promoted to the top, but also strongly influence the way by which the level of executive pay is determined. Last but not least, life-long company careers provide for forms of control that can function as a substitute for explicit incentives built into remuneration packages. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 189-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:189-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783790_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfram Manzenreiter Author-X-Name-First: Wolfram Author-X-Name-Last: Manzenreiter Title: No pain, no gain: embodied masculinities and lifestyle sport in Japan Abstract: In postmodern society, the field of consumption has replaced the world of production as the main arena in which dominant stereotypes of masculinity and femininity are communicated and reinforced. Previous research findings suggest that deference to male authority, homosociality, hierarchical junior–senior relationships, conformity and control, and the appreciation of pain and violence are characteristic elements which exaggerate masculine traits and devaluate feminine ones in sports in Japan. My own experiences with rock climbers in Western Japan questions the conventional wisdom of the preponderance of such “masculinity rites” – which overwhelmingly have been observed in highly formalized, competitive, and organized settings. Confronting traditional, mainstream sports with less explored subcultural modes of alternative sport involvement, such as surfing, skateboarding, or climbing, this article explores to what degree hegemonic masculinity has also shaped ideas and ideals of maleness within lifestyle sport and whether these subcultural spaces actually offer the opportunity for the experience of alternative modes of masculinity. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 215-236 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:2:p:215-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kadosh Nissim Otmazgin Author-X-Name-First: Kadosh Nissim Author-X-Name-Last: Otmazgin Author-Name: Nissim Otmazgin Author-X-Name-First: Nissim Author-X-Name-Last: Otmazgin Title: Japan imagined: popular culture, soft power, and Japan's changing image in Northeast and Southeast Asia Abstract: Over the past two decades, Japan’s popular culture has been massively disseminated and consumed throughout Northeast and Southeast Asia. A wide range of products, such as music, animation, comics, television programs, fashion magazines, and movies, have been endorsed by local popular culture markets and now constitute an integral part of the cultural lives of many young people in this region. These products not only introduce a multitude of consumption options, but also have an impact on the way young urban consumers imagine and think about Japan.This paper examines the extent to which popular culture can change the perception of a country abroad. Based on questionnaire surveys conducted with university students from Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Seoul, it focuses on the appreciation shown to Japan’s popular culture, and how it shapes young people’s image of the country. The central argument presented is that exposure to Japanese popular culture disseminates new, favorable images, which modify the way the country is perceived. These images arouse feelings of affinity and a sense of proximity, but unlike the “soft power” argument, they are generational, implicit, inconsistent, and subject to different interpretations. As such, the practicality of generating state power in terms of authority or control is doubtful. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:1:p:1-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783771_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Germer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Germer Author-Name: Andrea Germer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Germer Title: Artists and wartime politics: Natori Yōnosuke – a Japanese Riefenstahl? Abstract: Introducing the techniques of the photojournalism of Weimar Germany to Japan at the beginning of the 1930s, photographer Natori Yonosuke (1910-1962) can be called the godfather of photojournalism in Japan. After relocating from Germany to Japan in 1933, his activities until the end of World War II included producing the illustrated propaganda magazine NIPPON (1934-1944), which was geared toward foreign audiences, and publishing a number of other propaganda magazines in occupied East and South East Asia. This paper traces Natori’s personal and business connections in Weimar Germany - in particular with his Jewish colleagues and friends, and their critical political situation after the Nazis’ rise to power - and juxtaposes these with Natori’s contributions to the Nazi press, his engagement in cultural exchange between Japan and Germany, and his recommendations of Nazi visual propaganda strategies for Japan in the 1930s. Drawing attention to the transnational and transcultural dimensions of Natori’s wartime politics, this paper argues that his agency needs to be approached not only in terms of Japanese but also of German wartime responsibility. Taking up the theme of Leni Riefenstahl, a major artist engaged in propaganda production for the Nazi regime, who - like Natori - had been aesthetically influenced by the Weimar avant-garde, this article also discusses comparative aspects of artists’ wartime politics and their accountability in the post-war period. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 21-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:1:p:21-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783772_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Griseldis Kirsch Author-X-Name-First: Griseldis Author-X-Name-Last: Kirsch Title: Memory and myth: the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima in German and Japanese TV drama Abstract: Japan is often blamed for not coming to terms with its own wartime past and for focusing solely on its role as a victim of the war. Germany, however, is often seen as the model that Japan has to emulate, having penitently accepted responsibility. Thus, in order to work out how these popular myths are being perpetuated, the media prove to be a good source of information, since they help to uphold memory and myth at the same time. In this paper, it will be examined how the “memory” of the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima is being upheld in Japan and Germany 蜢 and what kinds of “myths” are being created in the process. In focusing on two TV dramas, it shall be worked out to what extent Japan and Germany are represented as “victims” and to what extent, if at all, the issue of war responsibility features in these dramas. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 51-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:1:p:51-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783773_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrich Heinze Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich Author-X-Name-Last: Heinze Title: Nippon‘s nostalgic national narrative: Ishihara Shintarō‘s kamikaze film Ore Abstract: This paper explores the context and features of the national narrative as presented in Ishihara Shintarˉ’s 2007 film Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (‘I go to die for you’) about kamikaze pilots in World War II. Paul Virilio has argued that all battlefields are film sets. Most American war films, whether they take place in the Pacific, Normandy, Vietnam, or Iraq, bear out this statement. Clint Eastwood’s 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima follow the same pattern. Ishihara’s Ore, in contrast, comprises a set of stories intertwined around a woman, Torihama Tome, a mother figure for four young kamikaze pilots, and it takes place mainly in the private family space of her parlor. Ore replaces a masculine narrative of war, one that relies on written reports, with a feminine, oral history, one that hinges on relations to a maternal figure. In terms of genre, the film is a foundling: designed by Ishihara as a response to Eastwood’s films, Ore is in fact a television film, emulating numerous 1960s television serials on memories of war targeted at housewives. Using Yoshimi Shunya’s idea of television consumption to a “national timetable” in postwar Japan, this paper argues that rather than being purely nationalistic, Ore is largely autobiographical and nostalgic, and it feminizes the viewer. Ironically, this may also explain its surrender to Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima at the Japanese box offices. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 71-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:1:p:71-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783774_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Masaru Kohno Author-X-Name-First: Masaru Author-X-Name-Last: Kohno Title: Rethinking Japan’s democracy: origins of “hybrid institutions” and their political consequences Abstract: This paper advances a way of thinking about the quality of Japan’s democratic polity by reviewing a set of constitutive attributes that define and contribute to its governing structure and processes. In Japan, the basic characteristics that accompany modern democracy, such as rule of law, accountability, responsiveness, individual freedom, and fundamental rights, can be taken for granted. This paper addresses more nuanced features of these characteristics, their historical origins, and how they are born out in the actual working of Japan’s democracy today. In particular, it highlights various aspects of “hybrid” institutions and their political consequences, including the coexistence of conflicting governing principles and the unusual procedure for the selection of the prime minister as stipulated in the constitution. Also discussed are inconsistencies in the electoral rules used for various levels of governments and how they have inhibited the development of political parties and stable party systems. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 95-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:1:p:95-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783775_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susanne Klien Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Klien Title: Preface Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 113-120 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:113-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783776_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carolin Funck Author-X-Name-First: Carolin Author-X-Name-Last: Funck Title: The innovative potential of inbound tourism in Japan for destination development – a case study of Hida Takayama Abstract: In contrast to the rapid development of outbound tourism since the 1980s, inbound tourism has played a minor role in Japan until 2002, when the Japanese government embarked on a policy of active enticement of foreign tourists. Through active promotion and pushed by economic development in neighboring countries, visitor numbers almost doubled from 4,771,555 in 2001 to 8,350,835 in 2008; since then, worldwide economic downturn, disaster, and a soaring yen have taken their toll. However, while their contribution to the overall Japanese tourism market is still well below 10%, an analysis of available data shows that foreign tourists are spread unevenly across the country. As a result, some restricted inbound clusters have evolved. In these places, inbound tourism as a new sector of the tourism market can play an important role in rejuvenation of destinations and innovation in tourism. One such destination is Hida Takayama, a historical town tucked away in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, which is considered a model for the development of inbound tourism in Japan. An analysis of Takayama’s tourism development process identified close cooperation between the public and private sector, the integration of inbound promotion into a wider set of tourism policies, and the combination of independent efforts by the city with active use of national policies as important factors for its formation as an international destination. As a result, the city attracts tourists from a variety of regions. A survey conducted with Japanese and different groups of foreign tourists proved that they differ in motivations and behavior and, therefore, add a stabilizing element to the tourism market. Finally, interviews with key persons from tourism associations and the accommodation industry, and a survey of small-scale businesses to examine innovations induced by the increase in foreign tourists showed that an active embracement of the new market segment is restricted to a small number of facilities. Through these steps of analysis, it could be shown that the impact of international tourism on destinations in Japan is limited to a number of places, where it nevertheless constitutes an important element of market stabilization and rejuvenation. However, its influence and potential for innovation are confined to some facilities within the destination, while the many small businesses forming the tourism industry often react in a passive way. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 121-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:121-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783777_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Heide Imai Author-X-Name-First: Heide Author-X-Name-Last: Imai Title: Balancing urban revitalization, tourism, and development issues in times of crisis: Kawagoe's historical district as a self-sustaining and resilient community Abstract: Using the example of the urban revitalization process of Kawagoe’s historical city center and district around chibangai Street, this paper examines the impact of different tourism development plans on the urban environment, community structure, and local economy of the neighborhood. Expanding on assumptions around the terms heritage, tourism, and tradition, the paper discusses potentials and practices of a distinctive revitalization and tourism approach that can offer new possibilities but also the chance of resistance. This will be done by critically evaluating Kawagoe’s community and tourism development plan and resenting personal trajectories drawing on ethnographic data collected before and after the Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011. The results show that synergies which derive from such incidents could be used to develop a better understanding of the impact of tourism development, and of how to rebound from times of crisis. The case of Kawagoe illustrates how the preservation of a traditional townscape can serve as one step toward the development of a sustainable, self-reliant, and resilient community when relying on a distinctive, place-based tourism approach. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 149-178 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:149-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783778_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Jones Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: A life cycle analysis of nature-based tourism policy in Japan Abstract: This paper uses Butler’s Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model to track the rise and fall of nature-based tourism (NBT) in Japan through six stages of nature park visitation from “Exploration” to the post-stagnation stages of either “Decline” or “Rejuvenation”. First, “Exploration” examines the marriage of indigenous travel culture with Westernized perceptions of landscape. NBT’s regional development role strengthened in the “Involvement” stage, when systemization of national parks and package tours paved the way for mass tourism. In the postwar era, urban demand for NBT soared; “Development” was increasingly centralized and bundled with land use policies, but by “Consolidation” visitation growth had cooled due to intensifying competition between resorts and from abroad. In the domestic market, inequalities intensified, but overall NBT visitation leveled off, causing “Stagnation”. Public2private consortiums galvanized communities into large-scale development projects epitomized by the Resort Law, but the financial and environmental consequences were disastrous, leading to “Decline”. In the post-bubble era, ecotourism showed potential for “Rejuvenation”, but to be effective it needs more integrative policy objectives, a consistent framework, longterm fiscal commitment, and capacity-building among rural communities. Therefore, this paper proposes a twin ecotourism strategy that promotes grandstand venues such as UNESCO sites while supporting grassroots satoyama/umi areas. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 179-211 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:179-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783779_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Oliver E. Kühne Author-X-Name-First: Oliver E. Author-X-Name-Last: Kühne Title: Research report: historical amnesia and the “neo-imperial gaze” in the Okinawa boom Abstract: The Japanese perceptions of Hawai’i and Okinawa today share fundamental similarities: Both postcolonial island chains are appreciated as stereotypical tropical paradises with beautiful beaches and untouched nature, where gentleness (yasashisa) and healing (iyashi) await the visitor. However, although affirmative, such interchangeable images obscure not only the social, economic, and political reality, but also the historically grown oppression. The questions thus arise whether these images are part of cultural discourses of power and whether they follow a conscious or unconscious “neo-imperial” agenda employed to silence subaltern Pacific voices. This paper examines the interwoven structure of the Okinawa boom (200122009) and the “healing boom” (iyashi bumu) in mainland Japan. Locating the two islands in a Pacific framework, statistical data of Okinawa and Hawai’i will be investigated to demonstrate how analogous postcolonial and “neo-imperial” issues actually are. Exemplarily, the NHK television drama Churasan of 2001 and Yoshimoto Banana’s travel diary Nankurunaku, nai (‘What Will Be, Will Not Be’) of 2006 will be investigated with the aim of uncovering trajectories of colonial agency and thus elucidate what political roles mass tourism, its media, and popular agents play in the power framework of “neo-imperial” oppression in the Pacific Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 213-241 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:213-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783780_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yukio Yotsumoto Author-X-Name-First: Yukio Author-X-Name-Last: Yotsumoto Title: Ecotour providers in the Kyushu region: the characteristics of Japanese ecotourism and its relationship with global warming Abstract: Ecotourism is a type of tourism that is popularly regarded as an environment-friendly activity. Thus, we tend to think that it has a positive relationship with climate change. However, in Western literature, many studies indicate that ecotourism is not environment-friendly in terms of climate change, and that it actually contributes to global warming substantially owing to the use of airplanes by tourists. In Japanese scholarship, there is no substantial research on this topic. This paper reports on a study in which three methods were used to evaluate the relationship between ecotourism and climate change in the Kyushu region of Japan: content analysis, a mail survey, and participant observation. The results indicate that it is a tenuous positive relationship but a varied negative relationship; that is, the impact depends on the type of ecotourism. The ecotour providers in Kyushu do not have explicit ideas on how ecotourism relates to global warming, and their actual contribution toward a low-carbon society is limited to activities such as consumption of locally produced foods, recycling lunch boxes, and using less fossil fuel during tours. Discussed is the existence of a positive but weak relationship and a variegated negative relationship in Japan together with the negative relationship emphasized in Western literature. The conclusions suggest that Japanese ecotourism’s emphasis on revitalization of local communities influenced the formation of a varied negative relationship to a certain degree. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 243-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2012 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2012-0011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2012-0011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:24:y:2012:i:2:p:243-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783781_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Backhaus Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Backhaus Title: You’ve got sp@m: a textual analysis of unsolicited Japanese dating invitation mails Abstract: This paper analyzes the language of Japanese spam mails. Special focus is on one specific type of spam: make-believe dating invitations by women looking for physical relationships with male partners. A corpus of 434 spam mails was compiled between 2009 and 2012. Looking at two of these messages in detail, the paper examines the specific properties of this type of spam. These include linguistic features commonly associated with computer-mediated communication (CMC) and Japanese women’s language. Their function is to increase the “authenticity” of the messages. In a second step, I analyze how spam mail writers in their messages deal with the problem of portraying female sexuality and desire, with a special focus on the role of linguistic taboos and transgressions thereof. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-16 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783782_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Flavia Cangià Author-X-Name-First: Flavia Author-X-Name-Last: Cangià Title: Images of Edo: reinterpreting “Japanese history” and the “buraku” through community-based narratives Abstract: In contemporary Japan, people labeled as “burakumin” (‘hamlet people’) are commonly described as the descendants of Tokugawa-era outcasts of Japan, who were engaged in special occupations (e.g., leather industry, meat packing, street entertainment, drum making) and compelled to live in separate areas. Despite the heterogeneity of these populations, determination of “buraku origin” (buraku shusshin) has remained fixed over time and is based on one’s birth, former or current residence in a buraku, and engagement in the buraku industries. This paper illustrates representations of the buraku through local and community-based initiatives and narratives. It explores the short story “Yomigaetta Kurobe” (‘Resurrected Kurobe’) by Kawamoto Yoshikazu and the role and activities of the Archives Kinegawa Museum of Education and Leather Industry, located in Kinegawa in Sumida Ward (Tokyo) with a special focus on children’s participation. By reinterpreting the “Edo tradition,” activists, educators, children, and other individuals in the community transform the “otherness” and blur the boundaries to normalize yet take pride in the “specialness” of the buraku. They do so by drawing on commonplace factors including hard work and the everyday usefulness of objects, as well as special qualities such as skills and craftsmanship. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 17-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:17-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783783_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian Tagsold Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Tagsold Title: Popular realms of memory in Japan: the case of Sakamoto Ryōma Abstract: Sakamoto Ryōma is said to have united the fiefs of Satsuma and Chōshū in their attempt to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, which eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. He is one of the most popular historical figures in contemporary Japan. However, while the remembrance and commemoration of the darkest decades from the 1930s to the 1940s in Japanese history have been researched extensively in the West, cases such as Sakamoto have been mostly neglected. This paper examines Sakamoto’s current popularity and puts it into the context of Pierre Nora’s concept of “realms of memory.” Nora’s concept describes how national identity draws upon various memories and transforms them into interconnected points of reference. The analysis starts by scrutinizing on the many historical novels that have been written about Sakamoto as well as the historical TV drama Ryōma-den, produced and aired by public broadcaster NHK in 2010. Situating Sakamoto’s case in the overall picture of Japanese “realms of memory” reveals the political dimensions of memorizing him. Sakamoto has been cherished by conservatives and left-wing students alike. The paper concludes that Sakamoto and other heroes such as Saigō Takamori should be included into Western research on collective historical memory in Japan because they shed light on the complex entanglement of memory and politics in Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 41-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:41-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783784_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tuukka Toivonen Author-X-Name-First: Tuukka Author-X-Name-Last: Toivonen Author-Name: Yuki Imoto Author-X-Name-First: Yuki Author-X-Name-Last: Imoto Title: Transcending labels and panics: the logic of Japanese youth problems Abstract: Social scientific research on Japanese youth experienced something of a boom in the 2000s and is attracting further attention following the triple disaster of 11 March 2011. But while advances have been made in understanding young people’s relationship to work, marginalization, and activism, for instance, the premises of this emerging field of research remain shaky. Despite cursory critiques of associated labels and recurring “moral panics,” the dynamics of youth problems have not yet been sufficiently understood. This paper draws on the well-known case of the “nerdy” otaku to illustrate how youth problems arise from the complex interaction of labels, incidents, and prominent actors – that is, their more visible side – with underlying assumptions, strategies, and interests – that is, the less salient dimension of such problems. After highlighting important connections between the otaku phenomenon and the two subsequent phenomena of hikikomori and NEET, four key mechanisms are set out that govern the way youth problem debates emerge and evolve more generally (i.e., the respective roles of “industries,” “translators,” rhetorical strategies, and youth as a “muted group”). The paper concludes by relating the findings to post-tsunami Japan, arguing that the way in which young people are debated in the 2010s may turn out surprisingly similar to the debates in the 2000s, unless the very configuration of the institutions and actors that construct youth debates changes. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 61-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:61-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783785_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Satō Hirō Author-X-Name-First: Satō Author-X-Name-Last: Hirō Author-Name: Rebekah Clements Author-X-Name-First: Rebekah Author-X-Name-Last: Clements Title: 神国の行方 – Where to next for Shinkoku thought? / Translated by Rebekah Clements Abstract: This is an English translation of “Shinkoku no yukue” (神国の行方 ‘Where to next for Shinkoku thought?’), the final chapter of Shinkoku Nihon (神国日本‘Japan, Land of the Gods’) by Satō Hirō. In this chapter, Satō traces the history of the controversial notion of Japan as “shinkoku” – a divine ‘land of the gods’ – that is often associated with ultranationalism in Japan. Taking issue with what he sees as the common misunderstanding of shinkoku thought in contemporary Japan, Satō argues for the way it ought to be conceptualized and studied in future. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 87-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2013 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2013-0005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2013-0005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:87-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783821_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isabel Fassbender Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Fassbender Title: Enhancing autonomy in reproductive decisions? Education about family planning and fertility as a countermeasure against the low birthrate Abstract: As Japan’s declining birthrate has been perceived as a major menace to its society since the 1990s, pronatalist policy approaches are again a source of social and political concern. This paper focuses on a number of political measures involved in ameliorating low birthrates – measures that emphasize the necessity of educating individuals about reproduction and fertility in order to enable them to make informed decisions. Investigated will be the question of how the new trend in the narrative of countermeasures focusing on education about reproduction can be evaluated, particularly regarding the question of how the notion of “autonomy” is to be understood in this context. The reference points in this deliberation are two dimensions of autonomy that have been carved out in various fields of scholarship: (i) autonomy as empowerment and (ii) autonomy as a neoliberal government technology. Furthermore, and constituting an additional level, are the issues of how gender is depicted in this narrative, and how its representation has to be evaluated in the context of autonomy. The argumentation is based on the analysis of the political narrative on pronatalist policy, concrete examples of its implementation, as well as contributions from sources critical of the policy. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 123-144 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:123-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783822_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ikuho Amano Author-X-Name-First: Ikuho Author-X-Name-Last: Amano Title: In praise of iron grandeur: the sensibility of kōjō moe and the reinvention of urban technoscape Abstract: Since the late 1980s, sci-fi fans and machinery aficionados in Japan have expressed their fascination with factories, projecting an imagination that sites of industrial facilities are simulacra of futuristic urban technoscape portrayed in Hollywood films. Although factory watching used to be an activity for a limited population, in the past decade organized factory night tours are becoming increasingly popular in Japan. This type of tour has expanded public interest in factories located on coastal industrial zones as a form of popular leisure-time activity. Widely known as kōjō moe (‘factory infatuation’), fans have elevated plants to objects for aesthetic appreciation. This mutation of value corresponds to an emergence of metaphysical durability of social objects as theorized by Michael Thompson’s (1979) Rubbish Theory. In the context of postwar Japan, those industrial factories have become, in Marilyn Ivy’s (1995) term, a significant form of cultural industry that complements the absence of local identity. A second driving force of kōjō moe is the contemporary digital technology that has altered the viewer’s experience of industrial factories. The circulation of digitally manipulated images provokes nostalgic sentiments and attracts the viewer to factory night tours. In the context of economic demise and gradual transition to postindustrial society, industrial factories represent the previous age of material grandeur. Alongside, kōjō moe has set forth long-lasting artistic values of them as cultural capital. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 145-164 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:145-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783823_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anne-Lise Mithout Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Lise Author-X-Name-Last: Mithout Title: Children with disabilities in the Japanese school system: a path toward social integration? Abstract: Japanese children with disabilities have traditionally been educated in special schools, specifically dedicated to one type of disability, and often isolated from the rest of society. However, in 2006, in the course of the general reform of education, special education was reformed to promote the principle of “inclusive education” – that is, education in mainstream schools along with non-disabled peers – and, in a broader sense, education meeting the needs of all children, regardless of their particularities in terms of abilities, command of the Japanese language, ethnic/social/family background, etc. This paper aims at assessing the results of this reform after almost ten years of implementation. To what extent has the 2006 reform contributed to improving the integration of disabled or less-abled children into Japanese society? Based on quantitative and qualitative data, the argument shows that it has achieved mixed results in practice, with large variations depending on the type of disability considered. The observed evolution can be interpreted as an extended individualization of pedagogy in mainstream schools, still enrooted in the framework of strong control processes. Even though new structures are created in order to meet everyone’s needs, the implemented approach remains based on a willingness to externalize difficulties, rather than the promised radical transformation of schools toward the recognition of a general diversity. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 165-184 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:165-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783824_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florence Lahournat Author-X-Name-First: Florence Author-X-Name-Last: Lahournat Title: Reviving tradition in disaster-affected communities: adaptation and continuity in the kagura of Ogatsu, Miyagi Prefecture Abstract: Questions of continuity and transmission, as well as relationship to the community, have long occupied an important part of folk performance scholarship. These topics take on a different urgency in disaster-affected communities, where preexisting socioeconomic issues become more pressing and endanger not only the continuity of folk practices but the communities themselves. The aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami has seen a surge of folk performance revivals in affected areas, hinting to the depth of the ties between local folk performance and community. Following an ethnographic approach, this paper explores the case of the community of Ogatsu (Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture) and its folk performance, the Ogatsu hōin kagura, as one expression of the revival process in an isolated, rural community extensively affected by the 2011 disaster. Putting in perspective the underlying dynamic of continuity and change that characterizes folk performances, the objective is to explore the nature and usage of the kagura and its relationship to the post-disaster community as it responds to changing circumstances. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 185-207 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:185-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783825_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Rear Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Rear Title: Reforming Japanese-style management: destabilizing hegemony through discourse intervention Abstract: This paper examines the attempts of Japanese business groups to destabilize the discursive hegemony of Japanese-style management and replace it with a new neoliberal order advantageous to management interests. Japanese-style management (Nihon-teki keiei) can be seen as a key element of Japanese social identity, which interpellates both workers and management into performing particular institutional practices. Altering these practices requires not only deregulatory reforms to the labor market but also a powerful discursive intervention to undermine and replace sedimented positions. Through an analysis of public policy documents, this paper shows how Japanese business groups have been carrying out such an intervention through the articulation of two keywords – “diversity” (tayōsei) and “independent-style employee” (jiritsu-gata jinzai) – which are used ambiguously to structure a controversial deregulatory agenda into existing discourses of globalization, creativity and social values. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 209-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 28 Year: 2016 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2016-0011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2016-0011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:209-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1256977_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanno Jentzsch Author-X-Name-First: Hanno Author-X-Name-Last: Jentzsch Title: Abandoned land, corporate farming, and farmland banks: a local perspective on the process of deregulating and redistributing farmland in Japan Abstract: This paper analyzes the policy process toward farmland consolidation and deregulation in Japan. The current Abe administration has introduced so-called Farmland Banks to facilitate land transfers to expanding farms, including general corporations, which have long been banned from farmland access in Japan. The paper argues that farmland deregulation puts the ‘incumbent’ local stakeholders of farmland governance, such as local agricultural cooperatives, local administrations, and not least farmers themselves, at risk of losing access to state support and influence. At the same time, the responsibilities for coordinating farmland consolidation have been placed onto the same local stakeholders. The state of local farmland governance has long been critical to impeding coordinated consolidation, whereas deregulation facilitates ‘predatory’ corporate farmland use. In contrast, evidence from Hikawa Town in Shimane Prefecture shows how exceptionally strong local control over farmland enables consolidation—albeit in the ‘defensive’ interests of the local incumbents. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 31-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1256977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1256977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:31-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281500_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Steffen Döll Author-X-Name-First: Steffen Author-X-Name-Last: Döll Title: Paul B. Watt, Demythologizing pure land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist tradition Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 89-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281500 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281500 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:89-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281506_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Till Knaudt Author-X-Name-First: Till Author-X-Name-Last: Knaudt Title: Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 91-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281506 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281506 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:91-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1256974_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nancy Rosenberger Author-X-Name-First: Nancy Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenberger Title: Young organic farmers in Japan: Betting on lifestyle, locality, and livelihood Abstract: This analysis of Japanese organic farmers in their 30s and 40s gains insight from Lyng’s framework of ‘edgework’—a transgression of life/death boundaries by sports practitioners. Young farmers emerged in qualitative fieldwork as ‘occupational edge-workers,’ crisscrossing binaries such as urban/rural, mind/body, and economic/moral. They manage risks and navigate uncertainties of natural forces, traditional village practices, neoliberal pressures to be entrepreneurial in the market, and judgment of older, purer organic farmers. With goals of living in harmony with nature, intimate others, and community, they create lifestyles in marginal rural localities by which they can make selves that are alternative to the neoliberal narrative, yet act as entrepreneurial subjects that risk bringing their version of morality to the market, via delicious, organic food sold to self-creating consumers. Claiming normality and spurning ideas of organic as a movement, their alterity is partial and practical as they exploit the potentials of this risky border zone. Conducted in 2012 and 2014, this research contributes to investigating alternative lifestyles in Japan, exploring the changing nature of alternative food movements in the neoliberal era, and understanding active agency for self and the environment in the neoliberal situation of entrepreneurial subjectivities, edgy self-making, and historical traditions. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 14-30 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1256974 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1256974 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:14-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281513_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Backhaus Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Backhaus Title: Hiromichi Hosoma, Kaigo suru karada [Bodies doing care] Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 103-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:103-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1260260_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gavin H. Whitelaw Author-X-Name-First: Gavin H. Author-X-Name-Last: Whitelaw Title: Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean Abstract: The following study examines how the spread of transgenic crops in North America and a concomitant rise in Japanese consumer concern over food safety allows spaces for human interaction and agency to intervene in and restructure a commodity’s global flow. Challenging assumptions of the ‘global marketplace’ as necessarily distant, culturally detached, and impersonal, the descriptive analysis of the annual soy bean inspections that occur between Japanese buyers and small-scale Canadian producers illuminates the ways that ‘perceived risks’ surrounding transgenic soybean cultivation and distribution intensifies exchange at the local level. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 47-66 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1260260 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1260260 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:47-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281507_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Sébastien Lechevalier, The great transformation of Japanese capitalism Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 95-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:95-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281512_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ruth Achenbach Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Achenbach Title: Stephen Robert Nagy, Japan’s demographic revival: Rethinking migration, identity, and sociocultural norms Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 101-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281512 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281512 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:101-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1256967_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cornelia Reiher Author-X-Name-First: Cornelia Author-X-Name-Last: Reiher Author-Name: Tomiko Yamaguchi Author-X-Name-First: Tomiko Author-X-Name-Last: Yamaguchi Title: Food, agriculture and risk in contemporary Japan Abstract: This introductory article to the special issue on ‘Food, agriculture and risk in contemporary Japan’ attempts to set the background to the theme by addressing trends and changes in the global agri-food system. These changes affect issues hinging on food, agriculture and risk in Japan. Against this backdrop, we argue that ‘risk’ is becoming an ever more important analytical category for understanding changes in Japan’s agri-food system given numerous phenomena that are perceived risky or unsafe. Although the contributions in this issue inevitably deal with various types of risks, among them two types of risks stand out in the analysis of the papers: economic risks that concern farmers’ livelihoods and health risk concerns stemming from food safety problems. The contributions shed light on how different actors deal with these risks and point to an interesting twist with regard to the question of agency; they show that consumers and farmers are not all that powerless. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 2-13 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1256967 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1256967 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:2-13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281509_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zi Wang Author-X-Name-First: Zi Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Peter Cave, Schooling selves: Autonomy, interdependence, and reform in Japanese junior high education Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 98-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281509 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281509 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:98-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1256987_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tine Walravens Author-X-Name-First: Tine Author-X-Name-Last: Walravens Title: Food safety and regulatory change since the ‘mad cow’ in Japan: Science, self-responsibility, and trust Abstract: The discovery of the first BSE case in Japan in 2001 triggered far-reaching changes in the regulatory framework of food safety. This article focuses on three major institutional developments since that first mad cow, namely the establishment of the Food Safety Commission (2003), the Shokuiku or Food Education program (2005), and the Consumer Affairs Agency (2009). Through a focus on the concept of self-responsibility, the politicized role of science, and the Japanese rhetoric of anzen anshin (safety–peace of mind), this study analyses the political efforts in reinstalling consumer trust. Regulatory changes gradually initiated a risk analysis approach into Japan’s food safety governance, combining consumer education and consumer protection essentials. Focusing on educating the consumer about new roles and responsibilities, the reforms shift the accountability for food risk to the individual, thereby strongly and increasingly relying on the ambiguous concept of anzen anshin. However, I argue that issues such as independence, accountability, and fragmentation in food safety monitoring must be continuously addressed instead of hiding them behind a rhetoric of anzen anshin and calling upon the consumer’s self-responsibility. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 67-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1256987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1256987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:67-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1281510_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-1 Issue: 1 Volume: 29 Year: 2017 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1281510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1281510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:29:y:2017:i:1:p:1-1 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2028229_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patricia (Tish) Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Patricia (Tish) Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Author-Name: Catherine Sibala Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Sibala Author-Name: Kiyohiko Ito Author-X-Name-First: Kiyohiko Author-X-Name-Last: Ito Author-Name: Vicki L. Beyer Author-X-Name-First: Vicki L. Author-X-Name-Last: Beyer Title: The deepening divide In Japanese employment: The increasing marginalization of contract workers as explained by path dependence, vested interests, and social psychology Abstract: In Japan, contract workers have never been on par with regular workers in terms of pay or benefits for similar work. However, the disparity between contract workers and regular workers has seen a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse since 2018 when the unintended consequences of the 2012 amendments to the 2007 Labor Contracts Act took effect. Although employment numbers may appear consistent over time, in actuality, as of 2018, nearly all contract workers are being replaced every three to five years. This is because employers are choosing contract lengths that prevent contract employees from qualifying under the 2012 amendments for ongoing, long-term employment. Accordingly, being forced to change jobs every three to five years in Japan’s seniority-based employment system is causing contract workers to fall further and further behind their regular worker peers in terms of wages, as well as job security, even as they are performing the same work. This is striking because the purpose of the 2012 amendments to the Labor Contracts Act was to bolster employment security and provide more equality between regular and contract workers. Instead, as more and more employees lose regular employment and fall into contingent and contract work due to corporate downsizing, the marginalization of contract workers in Japan increases, and their numbers expand. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary explanation of the evolution of contract work in Japan since 2000, drawing on: 1) a case study, and 2) labor market data. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 13-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2028229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:13-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2032544_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2032544 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2032544 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1885118_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Angela Yiu Author-X-Name-First: Angela Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu Title: Disruptions of daily life: Japanese literary modernism in the world Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 123-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1885118 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1885118 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:123-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2028228_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Philippe Debroux Author-X-Name-First: Philippe Author-X-Name-Last: Debroux Title: Employment of senior workers in Japan Abstract: The Japanese HRM practices and policies resulting from the compromises between labor, management, and the state emerged after WWII and coalesced in the 1960s. The subsequent emergence of a very cohesive, stable, and dynamic employment system is largely credited with playing an important role in Japan’s economic success and the stability of Japanese society in the postwar period. The treatment of senior workers after mandatory retirement occupied a specific place in this system. A mix of institutional, socio-cultural, economic, and demographic factors created a virtuous circle, and Japan was considered a model of management of those retired workers. Companies were able to maintain employment for many of them in relatively good social and economic conditions beneficial for both parties, even after mandatory retirement, and this assured a good transition to definitive retirement. However, despite Japan’s relative success in this regard, this paper exposes why the traditional HRM policies and practices are now considered socially and economically unsustainable in the treatment of retired senior workers. It argues that Japan cannot afford under-utilizing senior workers during the pre- and post-retirement periods of their career in the way that traditional policies and practices have institutionalized. Not only does Japan’s economy need senior workers, but not giving them the opportunity to maintain decent standards of living would have dire social and economic consequences. This calls for revamping the HRM system, so that the talent of senior workers can be used for their own benefit, while contributing to their employers and to society at large. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 58-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028228 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2028228 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:58-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1857898_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William Farge Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Farge Title: Christian sorcerers on trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka incident Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 114-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1857898 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1857898 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:114-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1787682_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Frank Rövekamp Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Rövekamp Title: Kulturen der Katastrophenberichterstattung – Eine Interviewstudie zur Fukushima-Krise in deutschen und japanischen Medien (Cultures of catastrophe-coverage – an interview study of the Fukushima crisis in the German and Japanese media) Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 108-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1787682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1787682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:108-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1863054_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Simon Hull Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Hull Title: Making Xavier’s dream real: Vernacular writings of catholic missionaries in modern Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 118-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1863054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1863054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:118-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2031506_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Parissa Haghirian Author-X-Name-First: Parissa Author-X-Name-Last: Haghirian Title: Japan’s employment system and human resource management – coping with increasing adjustment pressures Abstract: This introduction introduces the four papers of the special issue and places them in the wider context of the changes and challenges that Japan’s employment and HR systems have been confronting. The paper first discusses major challenges Japanese companies and the Japanese economy face such as labor shortage, low productivity and womenomics and the problems of recruiting skilled labor. After this, the paper discusses the interrelatedness of these issues and how the papers presented in this special issue provide new insights into these topics. Finally, the paper gives a brief assessment of how the Covid-19 pandemic, which happened after the project had started and which is therefore not reflected in the individual papers, has impacted work and employment in Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2031506 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2031506 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:3-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2028227_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kenta Koyama Author-X-Name-First: Kenta Author-X-Name-Last: Koyama Title: Mutual learning between Japanese managers and foreign subordinates: Enablers for middle-up-down management under role definition flexibility at Japanese headquarters Abstract: The number of foreign workers at Japanese companies has increased in recent years. Whereas this trend has been promoted by the policies of the Japanese government, Japanese companies face many difficulties in cross-cultural management. This study aimed to reveal how Japanese managers can modify their mindset and behaviours to adopt middle-up-down management for their foreign subordinates. Nine factors were coded from the interview surveys with ten pairs of Japanese managers and their foreign subordinates. Given the nine factors, a hypothetical conceptual framework was developed based on the three-step cultural synergy model. This conceptual framework offers some new perspectives to cross-cultural management theory. First, the homogeneous culture of Japanese companies could be replaced by cultural synergy and inclusive leadership to apply middle-up-down management with role definition flexibility to foreign subordinates. Second, cultural synergy and inclusive leadership could be more effective in Japanese than Western human resource management. These findings need to be fully examined in future research. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 87-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2028227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:87-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2028226_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle Author-X-Name-First: Hendrik Author-X-Name-Last: Meyer-Ohle Title: Working the shopping mall: Labour shortages and the dualities in Japan’s labour economy Abstract: The Japanese labour market has for long been sharply divided along the lines of gender and contractual status, with these attributes largely determining employment conditions. Yet, Japan’s demographic situation has led to labour shortages, and it needs to be asked whether companies can sustain current employment practices. This article seeks answers to this question by looking at the employment situation in retailing, specifically in shopping centres, places that are demanding in terms of working hours and employ high numbers of female and non-regular employees. The emergence of labour shortages led to a lively discourse among the members of the Japan Council of Shopping Centers, the industry’s association, and this discourse has been featured in the industry journal SC Japan Today. Analysing this discourse, the article argues that companies have built their business models on the assumption of a ready labour supply, and they are now becoming more flexible in employment practices. Yet, companies avoid a discussion of remuneration levels and are also looking at other solutions such as the reorganization of work processes or automation, and especially the employment of foreign employees. An increase in foreign employees may lead to new dualities based on nationality in the future. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 42-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028226 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2028226 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:42-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1816270_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nora Kottmann Author-X-Name-First: Nora Author-X-Name-Last: Kottmann Title: Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 112-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1816270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1816270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:112-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1884377_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Astha Chadha Author-X-Name-First: Astha Author-X-Name-Last: Chadha Title: The heavenly land and the land of the rising sun: Historical linkages, security cooperation and strategic partnership Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 121-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1884377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1884377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:121-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1783053_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jeremy A. Yellen Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy A. Author-X-Name-Last: Yellen Title: The political history of modern Japan: Foreign relations and domestic politics Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 106-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 34 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1783053 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1783053 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:34:y:2022:i:1:p:106-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1603822_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yumiko Cochrane Author-X-Name-First: Yumiko Author-X-Name-Last: Cochrane Title: An investigation into the roles of the Katakana syllabary in Japanese discourse: From the perspective of discourse producers’ motivation Abstract: This article investigates the role(s) of the katakana syllabary in Japanese discourse, with a focus on the discourse producer’s underlying motivation for using katakana for native Japanese terms and how it influences word perception. Specifically, this study analyses 1) a corpus of texts to identify patterns in use and 2) a survey of professional writers (e.g., journalists, column writers) to triangulate results obtained from text analysis. Results show that the katakana syllabary is used to indicate the word in question is somehow ‘different’ from the norm, making a visual and mental distinction in the commonly shared word or concept. While each writer’s motivations may widely vary, the findings of this study suggest that in any written discourse, katakana may be employed to conceptualise a dichotomous view in otherwise common concepts. This also suggests that over time the original role of the katakana syllabary has been extended to becoming the linguistic choice of convenience, with roles ranging from filling lexical gaps to creating meaning gaps in Japanese native words. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 215-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1603822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1603822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:215-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1546111_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zi Wang Author-X-Name-First: Zi Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Being young in super-aging Japan: Formative events and cultural reactions Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 264-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1546111 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1546111 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:264-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1657055_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kotona Motoyama Author-X-Name-First: Kotona Author-X-Name-Last: Motoyama Title: “Coming Out” as a family with an LGB member in Japan: Normalizing strategies and negotiating with social norms Abstract: Research on parents of an LGB child demonstrates the processes of parents’ emotional and behavioral changes leading them finally to accept their children. Only after parents accept their children will they be able to start their own process of “coming out”. This article examines how families with an LGB member in Japan come out by negotiating with social norms. Interviews with family members in Japan revealed that most respondents went through emotional and behavioral changes to accept an LGB member; however, their struggle continued even after they accepted an LGB member due to their fear of negative judgments by others around them. Also, the respondents felt more difficulty coming out to people they know than to anonymous others. How the respondents try to control their emotions and negotiate with others reveals that families face difficulties dealing with one of their members being an LGB person and coming out to others despite social improvements surrounding the LGB community in general. This shows that a certain degree of stigma against sexual minorities at the interpersonal level remains strong in the society. In response, respondents used a normalizing strategy in order to avoid possible conflicts with people in close relationships. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 159-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1657055 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1657055 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:159-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1655618_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yūki Asahina Author-X-Name-First: Yūki Author-X-Name-Last: Asahina Title: Becoming right-wing citizens in contemporary Japan Abstract: This article explicates the process through which individuals become right-wing citizens in contemporary Japan. By incorporating insights from the sociology of emotion, this article complements the existing analyses that emphasize the cognitive process that makes individuals resonate with right-wing ideologies and frames. Drawing on original and secondary interview data with 46 right-wing citizens and ethnographic observations of activities by right-wing groups, it explores how such feelings as shock, fear, anger, and affective bonds shape the mechanism of political conversion along with the cognitive process and ideological socialization. In particular, short-run emotions can motivate individuals to take part in political activism through which they learn about how they should (not) feel in particular situations. Participation in right-wing activism re-shapes short-run emotions into long-run emotions that tend to sustain their commitment by justifying symbolic boundaries between “us” and “them.” Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 122-140 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1655618 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1655618 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:122-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1659628_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the managing editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 117-117 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1659628 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1659628 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:117-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1607137_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Taku Tamaki Author-X-Name-First: Taku Author-X-Name-Last: Tamaki Title: The Olympics and Japanese national identity: Multi-layered otherness in Tokyo 2016 and 2020 Abstract: How are Japanese identity narratives constructed in the Tokyo 2016 campaign and the Tokyo 2020 bid and organisation? The earlier narratives of Tokyo 1940 and 1964 bids entailed invoking Western Otherness to emphasise Japan’s Asian affinity while simultaneously emphasising Japan’s un-Asian characteristics, effectively employing dual Otherness to tell the story of Japanese Self. Tokyo’s position as a global city today means that Japanese Self is now constituted through multiple Otherness involving the West, Asia, as well as the primacy of Tokyo in opposition to the relative neglect of the periphery, constructing a more complex story of Otherness. There are concerns Tokyo is hoarding infrastructure investment ahead of Tokyo 2020, just as the regions affected by the March 2011 disasters require capital infusion, fuelling a sense of Tokyo versus the rest. Hence, on top of the residual dual Otherness that can still be witnessed, Tokyo 2020 grafts another layer of Otherness, this time at the domestic level. In this article, I explore identity narratives by policy elites and opinion leaders to show the complex nature of multi-layered Otherness in the Tokyo 2016 and 2020 bidding and organisation. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 197-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1607137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1607137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:197-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1586295_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrich Teichler Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich Author-X-Name-Last: Teichler Title: The academics and their institutional environment in Japan – A view from outside Abstract: In economically advanced countries around the world, a number of similar developments in higher education can be observed such as a substantial growth of enrolment rates and diversification over several decades and more recently internationalisation, a stronger role of management and competition, as well as growing expectations to be socially relevant. But the features of the academic profession remain country-specific. This paper examines the characteristics and potential future directions of higher education in the case of Japan from an outside perspective. Comparative surveys suggest that Japanese academics are strongly research-oriented, hard-working and producing large numbers of publications. The share of women among academics remains comparatively low. The number of doctoral awards and the number of junior staff positions is quite low, which results in only small teams around a single professor: a ‘chimney’ structure of academic careers and ‘inbreeding’. Japanese scholars are strongly internationally minded in term of knowledge acquisition, but student and staff mobility as well as international cooperation is limited. An increase of junior academic positions, encouragement of diverse institutional profiles, improvement of the quality of teaching and learning as well as socialising academics to become ‘international players’ might be the priorities of future reforms. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 234-263 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1586295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1586295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:234-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1627024_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patricia G. Steinhoff Author-X-Name-First: Patricia G. Author-X-Name-Last: Steinhoff Title: Emotional costs of providing social support to political prisoners Abstract: This paper examines the emotional costs of providing social support to political prisoners in Japan, using Hochschild’s emotion work theory. It examines two different sets of social interactions within a broader symbolic interactionist analysis of sequential interactions between the social movement and state forces of social control, using data from a long-term field study. First, the relation of potential supporters with their broader social milieu may reinforce the commitment to provide social support as a political act, alter the commitment of those with other motivations, or deter a parent from maintaining any relationship at all with an imprisoned child. Second, the emotional dynamic of the relationship of supporters with prisoners changes over time. Because of the severe isolation of the prisoners, the loyal supporter may eventually become the target of the prisoner’s frustration and anger. Supporters may suffer from caregiver burnout and withdraw from the relationship. Conversely, continuing unconditional support from someone who listens without judging may enable the prisoner to entertain doubts and disengage from the movement. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 141-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1627024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1627024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:141-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1659630_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Barbara Holthus Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Holthus Title: Introduction to special section: Emotions and affect in studies on contemporary Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 118-121 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1659630 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1659630 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:118-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1553753_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jamie Coates Author-X-Name-First: Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Coates Title: The Japanese adult video industry Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 268-271 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1553753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1553753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:268-271 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1578848_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt Author-X-Name-First: Kristina Author-X-Name-Last: Iwata-Weickgenannt Title: The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri’s JR Ueno Station Park Exit Abstract: In Ruth Ozeki’s words, 3.11/Fukushima represents a “rift in time”, which not only split an imagined temporal continuum into before and after, but makes the before appear in a different light. In the present article, Yū Miri’s JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi is read as a literary response to, and expression of, this perceptual shift. Yū’s focus on an exploited migrant worker from rural Fukushima who spends his last years as a homeless in the capital chimes in with the post-3.11 discourse about the subordinate position of Northern Japan within the Japanese nation-state. The novel can thus be interpreted as a palimpsestic corrective; a critical rewriting of Japan’s post-war history from the viewpoint of those whose existence has been marginalized, if not completely erased from collective memory. To illustrate this point, the analysis focuses on Yū’s deconstruction of the myth surrounding the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (an implicit criticism of the upcoming post-nuclear 2020 Olympics), as well as her provocative juxtaposition of a homeless and the Japanese imperial family. It is argued that by problematizing historical memory and forgetting, discursive visibility and invisibility, Yū not only intertwines various narrative threads, but also manages to re-connect the before and after the disaster in a new, critical way. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 180-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1578848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1578848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:180-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1554970_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ernils Larsson Author-X-Name-First: Ernils Author-X-Name-Last: Larsson Title: The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 271-275 Issue: 2 Volume: 31 Year: 2019 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1554970 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1554970 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:31:y:2019:i:2:p:271-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1424069_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nils Dahl Author-X-Name-First: Nils Author-X-Name-Last: Dahl Title: Social inclusion of senior citizens in Japan: an investigation into the ‘Community-based Integrated Care System’ Abstract: Over the last decades, social inclusion has become a significant factor in social policy programmes in most countries of the world. It has been endorsed through various directives of international organisations and then implemented by numerous national governments. The relatively vague nature of the concept may facilitate this present prevalence, since it makes it easily adaptable to distinctive features of different societies. However, translating the term and implementing it into political practice might involve several problematic issues. This paper focuses on the so-called ‘Community-based Integrated Care System’ (chiiki hōkatsu kea shisutemu) as an example for the adaption of social inclusion in Japanese social policy programmes. The ‘Community-based Integrated Care System’ has been gradually introduced in Japan since 2006 as a part of the reformed Long-term Care Insurance Law. Building upon field studies which were conducted in a major commuter city in the Greater Tokyo Area, the paper presents contradictions between the theoretical framework and the practical implementation of the new policies. It is argued that the proposed model can lead to the construction of an effective local welfare system, but that it does not necessarily empower the local residents. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 43-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1424069 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1424069 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:43-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1425082_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the Editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1425082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1425082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1423459_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hiroki Kawamura Author-X-Name-First: Hiroki Author-X-Name-Last: Kawamura Title: The relation between law and technology in Japan: liability for technology-related mass damage in the cases of Minamata disease, asbestos, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Abstract: There are two aspects to the relation between law and technology. While on the one hand law promotes the development of technology, on the other it regulates its application and use especially regarding the protection of health and property. Japan has experienced many cases of technology-related mass damage, including the well-known examples of Minamata disease, the negative effects of asbestos on public health, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the 1960s, industrial pollution was the cause of widespread instances of damage to public health. This triggered a series of lawsuits which developed into a whole new area of tort law. In these cases of industrial pollution, it was established that private companies as polluters bear legal responsibility for the harm they caused. Since the 1980s, tort law has seen a new level of development: legal responsibility is no longer restricted to the direct polluter exclusively but has been expanded to include the State as the regulator. This article focuses on the relationship between the regulatory and promotive functions of technology-related law based on an analysis of the Minamata disease, asbestos, and Fukushima Daiichi disaster cases. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1423459 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1423459 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:3-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1422913_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andre Asplund Author-X-Name-First: Andre Author-X-Name-Last: Asplund Title: Normative power Japan: settling for ‘Chinese democracy’ Abstract: Tokyo has recently decided to utilize foreign aid more strategically so as to make ‘Proactive Contributions to Peace and Security’ and align aid with what is identified as Japanese national interests: to protect an international order governed by rules and based on democracy, human rights and rule of law. Some scholars have even started to talk about Japan as a ‘Normative Power’—an actor with the ability to set what is considered ‘normal’in international affairs. In an attempt to ‘measure’ any potential Japanese normative power, it is being argued that Japan can be identified as a normative power when it comes to setting the ‘rule of law’ (at sea) as legitimate and normal behavior, which has been facilitated by utilizing foreign aid strategically to claimants in the South China Sea dispute. However, said normative power does not seem to be applicable to other non-security related realms of Japanese national interests—protecting democracy and human rights in Asia. It is suggested that actual implementation of aid geared towards protection of such values are only as important to Tokyo as the extent to which it creates leverage against its main competitor in the region, China. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 117-134 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1422913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1422913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:117-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1422914_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sam Bamkin Author-X-Name-First: Sam Author-X-Name-Last: Bamkin Title: Reforms to strengthen moral education in Japan: a preliminary analysis of implementation in schools Abstract: This study examines the role of educational practitioners in mediating the implementation of the 2015 reforms of moral education. The revision of the Fundamental Law of Education and further commitment to a nationalistic agenda by successive governments have paved the way for curriculum reforms that introduced the value of patriotism as an objective in the moral education curriculum. The reforms in 2015 reassigned moral education as a ‘special subject’ requiring both ministerial approval of textbooks and assessment. However, previous studies have focused almost exclusively on policy and curriculum analyses. Few studies have examined the school or classroom to understand practice as implemented. Challenging the assumption that these revised documents describe changes in practice, this study examines the early stages of the implementation of policy, which is invariably mediated by education practitioners ‘enacting’ policy. Despite the undeniable trend of central policy promoting a ‘love of country’ and efforts to increase state control of education, a stronger patriotism in moral education may not soon materialise in the classroom under the current pace of reform, though structural changes may have longer term potential to limit the autonomy of teachers to mediate policy implementation. The results contribute to our understanding of how these reforms are being implemented, and more broadly how teachers in Japan enact reform ‘on the ground’. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 78-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1422914 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1422914 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:78-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1423761_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florian Meissner Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Meissner Title: Voices from the disaster area: local and regional media in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures after ‘3.11’ Abstract: This article examines local and regional media reporting in Japan following the triple disaster in 2011. Unlike the national newspapers and TV stations whose reporting was accused of downplaying the nuclear disaster, the media of Tohoku took on a more open and grassroots-oriented approach of reporting. According to various reports, local and regional media played an important role in providing crucial information, while they also conveyed the voices of those struggling to overcome the aftermath of disaster. Building upon a series of narrative interviews with Japanese journalists, this study investigates their perceived role in disaster reporting. It reveals that the gap between national and regional media in Japan originates in the conflicts resulting from centralism, but also in the high impact of the journalists’ professional environment. Concerning the local and regional media, three main ‘orientations’ have been reconstructed from the interview data: (1) a supportive approach toward the people affected by the disaster, (2) a strong sense of belonging to the community covered, and (3) a critical distance toward Tokyo politics and media. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 97-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1423761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1423761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:97-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1423738_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juljan Biontino Author-X-Name-First: Juljan Author-X-Name-Last: Biontino Title: ‘History Wars’ and reconciliation in Japan and Korea: the roles of historians, artists and activists Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 138-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1423738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1423738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:138-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1424261_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Astghik Hovhannisyan Author-X-Name-First: Astghik Author-X-Name-Last: Hovhannisyan Title: Ōta Tenrei’s defense of birth control, eugenics and euthanasia Abstract: Ōta Tenrei (1900–1985) was a gynecologist, socialist, birth control activist, sexologist, aswell as an advocate of eugenics and euthanasia, who participated in the enactment of the Eugenic Protection Law (1948–1996) and founded the Japan Euthanasia Society (1976, now the Japan Society for Dying with Dignity). Ōta had progressive views onsexuality, women’s rights, and reproduction, especially vocal in hisadvocacy of abortion rights. At the same time, he was an advocate of eugenics and he attempted to legalize euthanasia in Japan, arguing among other reasons that some people were a “burden” on society. This article examines Ōta’s advocacy of seemingly contradictory causes such as abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia. It suggests that first, for Ōta all these causes were progressive, aimed at creating a “better world,” and second, he put an excessive stress on autonomy, disregarding rights of those who lacked it, be itfetus, people in a vegetative state, or the intellectually disabled. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 28-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1424261 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1424261 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:28-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1423600_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hosea Hirata Author-X-Name-First: Hosea Author-X-Name-Last: Hirata Title: Trauma, dissociation and re-enactment in Japanese literature and film Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 135-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1423600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1423600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:135-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1423727_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shunsuke Takada Author-X-Name-First: Shunsuke Author-X-Name-Last: Takada Title: The relationship between education and child welfare in Japanese children’s self-reliance support facilities Abstract: In comparison to the foster care system in western countries, in Japan most child protective care is conducted in facilities. This article examines the institutional changes necessary for the introduction of school education in children’s self-reliance support facilities (CSSF) and considers the relationship between the spheres of education and welfare from the narratives of the school teachers who conduct the education practices and the facility staff who conduct the welfare practices. By examining these issues, this paper seeks to identify the challenges in introducing school education to the CSSF and discuss how the spheres of education and welfare can work together to overcome them. Following the introduction of school education into the CSSF, study guidance in the facilities was taken out of the hands of the facility staff and was conducted by qualified teachers. From teacher and welfare staff narratives, this introduction of school education was seen as an ‘erosion by school education’ for child welfare. However, from the perspective of Goffman’s total institution approach, this erosion has gradually generated new practices that differ from the conventional perspectives of school education or welfare. Building off of this perspective, this article suggests that school education in the CSSF can allow the children to temporarily experience a pseudo-society separate from their life in the child welfare facility, and this can offer benefits for the child’s eventual social re-integration. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 60-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 30 Year: 2018 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1423727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2018.1423727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:30:y:2018:i:1:p:60-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783798_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Title: Preface Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 171-174 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:171-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783799_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Junichi Akashi Author-X-Name-First: Junichi Author-X-Name-Last: Akashi Title: New aspects of Japan’s immigration policies: is population decline opening the doors? Abstract: This paper examines the possible impacts of rapid aging and population decline on Japan’s immigration policies. It is commonly understood that Japanese governments have shown a considerably restrictive attitude toward the acceptance of foreigners. In fact, immigrants and even foreign workers were not officially accepted in Japan unless they were highly skilled professionals. At the same time, recent initiatives such as the Economic Partnership Agreement about foreign health care workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, the third-country refugee program, and the point system for highly skilled foreign workers have shown a previously unseen dynamic in the respective policy fields. Similarly, a larger number of policy recommendations have called for changes of the current system and the official recognition of immigration. Do these developments signal a turn in Japanese immigration policies?This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the current state of Japanese immigration policies. Considering the background and the consequences of recent policy activities and recommendations, it will be argued that the Japanese government even now is not intending to open the country to foreigners. This adhering to past principles is attributable to difficulties in consensus building and a strong reluctance to make the topic as such a political issue. These problems can be observed not only on the level of the ministries and government offices, but also between and within the political parties. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 175-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:175-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783800_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayako Komine Author-X-Name-First: Ayako Author-X-Name-Last: Komine Title: When migrants became denizens: understanding Japan as a reactive immigration country Abstract: On the surface, Japan continues to be a non-immigration country. Economic migrants are never admitted as permanent residents at the point of initial entry and rarely viewed as immigrants any time afterward. At the same time, however, Japanese immigration policy has become markedly settlement oriented since the mid-2000s. The government has managed to cobble together a series of initiatives the total of which now has the appearance of an integration policy mostly targeting co-ethnic migrants, so-called nikkeijin. The country has also introduced a new points-based system which confers immigration privileges, such as family sponsorship and expedited access to permanent residence, on highly skilled migrants. By pointing at these policy examples, I demonstrate that Japan has become a de facto immigration country where some migrants are denizens or expected to become so. The present aim, then, is to explain why and how this shift has occurred despite the stasis which characterizes the policy façade. I argue that these changes are best understood as reactive and incremental adjustments to unexpected outcomes of earlier policy decisions on the admission of both unskilled and highly skilled workers as temporary migrants. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 197-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:197-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783801_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ruth Achenbach Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Achenbach Title: “Having it all” – at what cost? Strategies of Chinese highly skilled women in Japan to combine career and family Abstract: Being both foreign and female, Chinese highly skilled women face double discrimination in corporate Japan. Yet this study argues that due to their transnational networks and expertise they turn unfavorable circumstances for work–family balance into strategies to improve work–career compatibility to a degree still unattainable for many Japanese women. While outcomes thus seem rosy from a labor market perspective, these strategies come at a cost both for the women and for the Japanese labor market. Strategies include leaving Japan to join the Chinese labor market, family separation, and delayed marriage or childbirth. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 223-243 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:223-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783802_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Meng Liang Author-X-Name-First: Meng Author-X-Name-Last: Liang Title: “Place making” in Kawakami: aspirations and migrant realities of Chinese “technical interns” Abstract: In this paper, I examine Chinese agricultural labor migrants’ experiences in rural Japan. The research is based on multi-sited ethnography, mainly in Kawakami, a village located in central Japan, from July to November 2012. I go beyond the labeling of Chinese migrants as passive victims of difficult work conditions and exploitation, which pervades much of the literature on international migration, and argue that Chinese peasant workers possess an agency to negotiate, navigate, and survive in the village. The strategy they take is to contest over local institutions to build up their own “places,” where they can find provisional security, a sense of relief, and mutual support. These “places” further facilitate the formation of the social networks among the workers, although this is officially repressed by the dominant society. A functioning social network plays a significant role to help workers adapt, overcome difficulties, and exercise their agency in a more effective way. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 245-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:245-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783803_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beata Świtek Author-X-Name-First: Beata Author-X-Name-Last: Świtek Title: Representing the alternative: demographic change, migrant eldercare workers, and national imagination in Japan Abstract: When in August 2008 a group of 208 Indonesians undertook hands-on training in nursing and eldercare in Japan under the provisions of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), their arrival fed directly into debates over the appropriate means to tackle the various projected problems coming with Japan’s aging society and declining population. In this light, the EPA scheme, offering an unprecedented possibility for the Indonesian workers to remain in Japan permanently, came to be debated in terms of Japan’s stance on immigration and Japanese self-representations as a nation. As such, although numerically insignificant and officially not aimed at supplementing the Japanese labor market, the scheme triggered debates over the future shape of Japanese society, and how, and whether, foreigners could be included in it. Against this background, in this article I consider the relationship between the demographic changes and the way a nation imagines who can or should belong. I suggest that the media representations of the EPA trainees and the debates surrounding the program were expressions of particular ideologies of a Japanese nation trying to position itself vis-à-vis the projected demographic changes and globalizing processes, which brought about a need for a redefinition of certain representations of contemporary Japanese society. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 263-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:263-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783759_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carola Hommerich Author-X-Name-First: Carola Author-X-Name-Last: Hommerich Author-Name: Florian Kohlbacher Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Kohlbacher Title: Editorial Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783760_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maria Gr jdian Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Gr jdian Title: Kiyoku, tadashiku, utsukushiku: Takarazuka Revue and the project of identity (re-)solidification Abstract: Throughout Japan's ambitions to redefine superpower as cultural issue, the popular all-female musical theater Takarazuka Revue has been a faithful companion. Concurrently anachronistic in its gender exhibition and progressive in its performance practice, Takarazuka Revue has been typically reconstructing, since 1913, asymmetric interactions between identity and alterity, model and copy, as well as male and female – all wrapped up in spectacular tunes, magnificent costumes and luxurious scenery. While focusing on the postwar period, that is since the re-opening of the Grand Theater in Takarazuka in 1946, and on the tension between the androgynously charismatic otokoyaku figures [i.e., female interpreters of male roles in the Takarazuka Revue] and the apparently conformist and submissive musumeyaku figures [i.e., female interpreters of female roles in the Takarazuka Revue], it is this paper's goal to underline some of Takarazuka Revue's strategies to construct, develop, propagate and eventually implement its – and by extension: the Japanese – historical worldview by means of a new form of cultural imperialism, namely love as ideological base and an aesthetic superstructure of latemodern identity. This article quests to reveal the core element within the project of identity (re-)solidification proposed by the Takarazuka Revue: an emerging form of cultural awareness based on tenderness as existential attitude. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 5-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:5-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783761_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandra Hambleton Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Hambleton Title: Reinforcing identities? Non-Japanese residents, television and cultural nationalism in Japan Abstract: Between 1997 and 2007 the foreign population of Japan increased by more than 45% making it the largest at any time in the postwar period, constituting 1.69% of the overall population. At the same time, the trans-border flows of people, capital and media increased at an unprecedented rate. In the Japanese media, there has been a marked increase in the number of television programs featuring non-Japanese. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of non-Japanese residents of Japan on variety television programs and shows that the increase of foreign faces on Japanese television is significant as non-Japanese residents are used here to reinforce ideas of Japanese cultural identity. These programs, while usually advertised as opportunities to look at issues from an international perspective, instead highlight perceived differences which exist between Japan and the outside world as a form of entertainment, rather than to seriously examine the issues Japan faces as it becomes more international. Employing a discourse analysis of recent programs as well as interviews with program participants, this paper examines media mechanisms which create an image of the foreign “other” that is employed to create, perpetuate and strengthen the idea of a unique Japanese cultural identity. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 27-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:27-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783762_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gitte Marianne Hansen Author-X-Name-First: Gitte Marianne Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen Title: Eating disorders and self-harm in Japanese culture and cultural expressions Abstract: Since the 1980s, eating disorders and self-harm among Japanese women have been on the rise. This socio-cultural study suggests that these behaviours are based in Japanese culture and have today become a female lifestyle. Motivated by cultural and historical constructions of femininity and the fear of social disintegration, this female lifestyle expresses a paradox: an attempt by women to over-perform and at the same time escape the obligation to navigate normative femininity. In parallel, eating disorders and self-harm are explicitly thematized in Japanese cultural expressions, from literature and manga to films and popular music. Using accounts from women engaged in this lifestyle, in addition to various fictional representations, this study conceptualizes a set of socio-psychological markers that exposes how eating disorders and self-harm are potentially represented in cultural expressions where such behaviours are not explicitly thematized. Miyazaki Hayao's animation Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi from 2001 serves as an example of how eating disorders, as a female lifestyle, have become a normative form of entertainment. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 49-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:49-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783763_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Spiritual safety nets and networked faith: The “liquidity” of family and work under late modernity Abstract: In the midst of the 20 years of economic and social uncertainty that has been punctuated by the worldwide financial crisis, an increasing rhetoric of economic uncertainty and social instability has risen to popular consciousness among many ordinary citizens in Japan. With changing economic and familial relations, individuals in Japan are participating in the networked communities of “moralizing institutions” to find renewed stability and a sense of empowerment in their lives. Through ethnographic fieldwork with an international religious organization and a domestic ethics organization, this paper analyzes the diverse ways in which individuals are reestablishing a sense of stability and direction by reengaging with idealized life patterns and family orientations that have become more elusive under the increasingly uncertain socioeconomic conditions. Specifically, I analyze how individual members were directly affected by what Zygmunt Bauman calls the “liquidity” of recent economic reforms including rising unemployment and late-career layoffs which had drastic repercussions on life planning and family relations. As human networks built from resilient networked faith, these moralizing institutions provide a different kind of logic of “liquidity” and “flexibility,” allowing members to realize their idealized life plans and to navigate toward the solid ground of a stable work and family life. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 71-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:71-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783764_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfgang Jagodzinski Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Jagodzinski Title: Autonomy, religiosity and national identification as determinants of life satisfaction: A theoretical and empirical model and its application to Japan Abstract: Modernization theories contrast traditional and advanced societies. In the former, religion and group identification – the identification with the ethnicity or the nation in particular – are means of integration and sources of happiness. Technological and economic developments undermine this base of mechanical solidarity and bring out individualism, self-expression and autonomy as new values. Happiness is now reached, if the autonomous citizen can successfully realize her/his goals. As theories of individualism and collectivism typically regard independence and autonomy as values of the individualistic cultural frame, it should be lower in those societies where collectivism is still prevalent. This would explain why happiness is relatively low in Japan.The first sections of the paper show that the key variable of these theories – i.e., the sense of autonomy – is not only logically distinct from independence and individualism but also empirically uncorrelated with indicators of the latter concepts. Furthermore, autonomy increases at best weakly with modernization. Though it does not meet the assumptions of modernization theories, autonomy is nevertheless a strong predictor of life satisfaction. The positive influence of religion and national identification, by contrast, is relatively weak. The low sense of autonomy can explain the level of life satisfaction in Japan fairly well. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 93-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:1:p:93-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783804_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Louella Matsunaga Author-X-Name-First: Louella Author-X-Name-Last: Matsunaga Title: Bodies in question: narrating the body in contemporary Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-11 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:1-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783805_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aaron L. Miller Author-X-Name-First: Aaron L. Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: Foucauldian theory and the making of the Japanese sporting body Abstract: International sporting competitions, such as the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, adhere to a nationalistic and triumphalist paradigm in which strength, victories, and medals are judged more important than anything else. Within this paradigm, what matters most is which sporting body can subdue another. National sporting consciousnesses often reflect this paradigm, and the case of Japan offers no exception. How do international power relations within such paradigms shape sporting bodies, national sports consciousnesses, and our knowledge of them? To answer this question, this paper applies the theory of Michel Foucault to a historical study of Japanese sports. By applying Foucault’s theory of power, especially his ideas of “bio-power” and the “productive” nature of “power relations,” we can better interpret historical shifts in the way Japanese have perceived their sporting bodies over time, especially the view that the Japanese sporting bodies are unique but inferior when compared with non-Japanese sporting bodies. International power relations and perceptions of cultural inferiority weigh heavy on Japanese sporting bodies. They produce certain behaviors, such as the action of toeing the line for one’s team, especially when that team is the nation, and certain discourses, such as the narrative that Japanese sporting bodies must train together to best play together Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 13-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:13-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783806_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fusako Innami Author-X-Name-First: Fusako Author-X-Name-Last: Innami Title: Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki Abstract: This paper examines the shifting concept of the body in contemporary Japan through the phenomenon of “co-sleeping” (soine) services. It takes as examples Kawabata Yasunari’s 1961 novel House of the Sleeping Beauties (HSB), Yoshimoto Banana’s 1989 novel Asleep, and Yamazaki Sayaka’s 2008-2010 manga Shimashima. In HSB, the male protagonist sleeps together with girls who are unconscious, knocked out by sleeping pills, and touches them. He can only realize contact with sleeping girls without face-to-face encounters, posing the reader questions such as to what extent one can share one’s corporeality with another in sleeping, what kind of intimacy, desire, and love is involved in payable co-sleeping services, and what it means to engage with the sleeping otherness. Simon Williams and Eyal Ben-Ari have examined co-sleeping as a form of intimate communication. Yet, co-sleeping is a commercial service in HSB, Asleep, and in Shimashima, where the customer pays for sharing bodily warmth and touching another’s (almost unreachable) existence. Having witnessed the recent emergence of actual co-sleeping services in Tokyo and New York, this paper aims to advance literary research on the topic of co-sleeping services and explore the emerging concept of the commercialized sleeping body in contemporary Japanese society Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 33-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:33-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783807_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ronald Saladin Author-X-Name-First: Ronald Author-X-Name-Last: Saladin Title: Between gyaru-o and sōshokukei danshi: body discourses in lifestyle magazines for young Japanese men Abstract: This article investigates how two lifestyle magazines aimed at young Japanese men negotiate masculinity with regard to body discourses. Although both magazines incorporate discourses of outward appearance into their constructions of masculinities and thus show how gender discourses in general have changed, they significantly differ from each other as far as the idealized man is concerned. ChokiChoki mainly deals with health care, beauty, and the overall body physique. It heavily incorporates strategies into the discursive construction of masculinity that used to be understood as distinctly female. The magazine Men’s Egg focuses on body physique and the sexual act. It tends to idealize the muscular body and links it with sexual potency, which is one of the magazine’s main aspects of proving masculinity. While Men’s Egg targets gyaru-o (from English: ‘gal’) and relies on conduct that is strongly affiliated with hegemonic masculinity, the much stronger incorporation of once exclusively female practices by ChokiChoki constructs an ideal close to the sōshokukei danshi (‘herbivorous man’). Both magazines, while reproducing mechanisms of hegemonic masculinity, semantically expand the male habitus and body language Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 53-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:53-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783808_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dolores Martinez Author-X-Name-First: Dolores Author-X-Name-Last: Martinez Title: Bodies of future memories: the Japanese body in science fiction anime Abstract: This paper analyzes the role of the fighting women in Japanese anime near the end of the twentieth century. It argues that these female heroes are not just shōjo (‘young girls’) who represent Japan the nation, nor are they mere projections of otaku desire, or token women included to attract female fans. Rather than that, I maintain that these female heroes are what could be described as “cyborg goddesses,” who offer an escape from the present’s dilemmas. An analysis of whom and what they are saving reveals a desire to return to an idealized Japanese past, while representing contemporary predicaments and concerns about the future. These heroes embody a form of “honorific individualism” (Ikegami 1995), based on a strong sense of individuality, and they have the potential to generate change by challenging the conformist status quo Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 71-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:1:p:71-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1795793_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Suma Ikeuchi Author-X-Name-First: Suma Author-X-Name-Last: Ikeuchi Title: Living transnationally between Japan and Brazil: Routes over roots Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 253-256 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1795793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1795793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:253-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1842969_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gerhard Krebs Author-X-Name-First: Gerhard Author-X-Name-Last: Krebs Title: Was Fidel Castro’s Cuba rescued by the Yankees from Japanese aggression? A very special view of the Pacific War Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 225-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1842969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1842969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:225-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1763572_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kei Uno Author-X-Name-First: Kei Author-X-Name-Last: Uno Title: Tanaka Kōtarō and world law: Rethinking the natural law outside the west Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 263-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1763572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1763572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:263-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1728616_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hans Peter Liederbach Author-X-Name-First: Hans Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Liederbach Title: Watsuji on nature: Japanese philosophy in the wake of Heidegger Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 243-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1728616 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1728616 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:243-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1926410_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amy Matthewson Author-X-Name-First: Amy Author-X-Name-Last: Matthewson Title: Satirising imperial anxiety in Victorian Britain: Representing Japan in Punch Magazine, 1852-1893 Abstract: Japan’s opening to global trade during the second half of the nineteenth century aroused much interest from Western nations. Attempts to understand the nation were made by classifying Japan and its people within the racial and political hierarchies known at the time, which were frequently contradictory in attitude. By focusing on the popular British satirical magazine, Punch, this paper explores the ways in which Japan was used as a satirical “other” between 1852 and 1893. The fluctuating representations reveal socio-political anxieties during a period of heightened consciousness towards ideological and geopolitical power dynamics. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 201-224 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1926410 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1926410 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:201-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1953773_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Adam Cathcart Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Cathcart Title: Review of Karl Haushofer und die OAG: Deutsch-japanische Netzwerke in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Karl Haushofer and the German East Asiatic Society: German-Japanese Networks in the First Half of the 20th Century) Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 248-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1953773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1953773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:248-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1921330_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Shinobu Anzai Author-X-Name-First: Shinobu Author-X-Name-Last: Anzai Title: Media representation of an imagined imperial community: Digital media reports in Japan at the dawn of the Reiwa era and Emperor Naruhito’s ascension to the throne Abstract: Drawing on media portrayals of the Japanese imperial family since the end of World War II, this study explores an imagined imperial community represented through Japanese digital media reports culminating at the dawn of Reiwa and Emperor Naruhito’s coronation in 2019. The study examines if the media representation of the Reiwa imagined imperial community reflects the preferred narrative of the Abe administration (2012–2020). The study’s main conceptual suppositions are Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities and Kurihara Akira’s performance model of the emperor system. Findings from a content analysis of digital media reports between 1 April 2019 and 4 May 2019 suggest that a) the Reiwa imagined imperial community was chiefly represented by media reports with nationalistic narratives in line with the Abe administration’s political philosophy, hinting at restoring a prewar imagined imperial community; and b) digital media organizations practiced sontaku – a media practice of willing submission to the government – by favoring the Abe administration’s narrative of the Reiwa imagined imperial community. Hence, the current study identified that the Reiwa imagined imperial community, which appeared in the digital media, was not just a high-profile historical event. Rather, the Reiwa imagined imperial community was a grand political performance scripted by the Abe administration with the media as the intermediary. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 169-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1921330 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1921330 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:169-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1968565_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the managing editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 147-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1968565 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1968565 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:147-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1735608_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jasmin Rückert Author-X-Name-First: Jasmin Author-X-Name-Last: Rückert Title: Rethinking Japanese feminisms Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 256-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1735608 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735608 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:256-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1852363_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christoph Schimkowsky Author-X-Name-First: Christoph Author-X-Name-Last: Schimkowsky Title: Crime prevention in a low-crime nation: an enquiry into Japanese bōhan initiatives Abstract: Despite high public safety levels, crime prevention (bōhan) is a common concern in Japanese society. In the early-2000s, the Japanese government set out to “create a crime-resistant society”, giving rise to a flurry of crime prevention initiatives involving not only state institutions but also citizen volunteers and private companies. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of bōhan volunteers grew by over 1200% to 2.5 million citizens. In Japanese cities, neighbourhood patrols as well as bōhan posters and signs present frequent reminders of significant societal attention to crime and crime prevention. This paper asks why crime prevention gained so much traction in a relatively safe country. It sets out by identifying the responsibilisation of non-state actors and the incorporation of bōhan measures into the urban environment as core themes of contemporary Japanese crime prevention efforts. Based on an analysis of government and police documents as well as Japanese scholarship, it then discusses two factors that facilitated the spread of crime prevention initiatives in Japan in the mid-2000-2010s: current crime prevention campaigns as a continuation of national currents and governance strategies, and the versatility and adaptability of crime prevention ideas and initiatives. As an in-depth account of bōhan initiatives in contemporary Japan and their roots, this paper provides insights into the governance of deviance and the integration of crime deterrence and surveillance into everyday life in Japanese cities. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 148-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1852363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1852363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:148-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1790197_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Simon Paxton Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Paxton Title: Branding Japanese food: from Meibutsu to Washoku Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 259-261 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1790197 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1790197 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:259-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1812027_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Barbara Holthus Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Holthus Title: Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 250-253 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1812027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1812027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:250-253 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1747781_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dylan Scudder Author-X-Name-First: Dylan Author-X-Name-Last: Scudder Title: Review of the story of Japan’s Ohmi merchants: The precept of Sanpo-yoshi Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 261-263 Issue: 2 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1747781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1747781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:2:p:261-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1717057_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-1 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1717057 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1717057 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:1-1 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1717153_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juljan Biontino Author-X-Name-First: Juljan Author-X-Name-Last: Biontino Author-Name: Dorothea Mladenova Author-X-Name-First: Dorothea Author-X-Name-Last: Mladenova Author-Name: Celia Spoden Author-X-Name-First: Celia Author-X-Name-Last: Spoden Title: Governing death and dying in Japan and its colonies – From state control to self-optimization Abstract: Why a special issue on death and dying? As Clive Seale states, the “[s]tudy of the human experience of death allows us to understand some fundamental features of social life.” According to him, the fact that we are embodied beings means that we are mortal. Knowing about our mortality is constantly threatening to make our lives meaningless. Therefore, we engage in social and cultural practices to give meaning to death and dying. Examining how practices around death and dying have changed and vary in different socio-cultural contexts enables us to realize how much our constructions of death and dying are contingent on the historical, socio-cultural and political context. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 2-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1717153 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1717153 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:2-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1717131_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juljan Biontino Author-X-Name-First: Juljan Author-X-Name-Last: Biontino Title: Changes in funerary rites and burial practices in Modern Korea (1876–1945) Abstract: Before Korea opened its ports in 1876, funerary customs and burial practices were strongly influenced by Confucianism and geomancy. Wailing was systematized, and the sacred nature of ancestral bones allowed only for earth burial, preferably in spots that were selected for their geomantic energy. Japan, extending its influence in Korea steadily up to full annexation in 1910, intensely challenged Korean burial practices in an attempt to align them with Japanese procedures. In the name of modernization, public cemeteries and cremation were introduced, while private graveyards were forcefully removed. This article attempts to trace these changes and evaluate their impact in Modern Korea. First, the situation at the advent of Modern Korea will be outlined to understand the problems during that period. Next, Japanese changes to funerary practice in Korea will be reviewed, and then reactions to these changes will be analyzed through the diary left by Yun Ch’i-ho (1864–1945), a famous intellectual and controversial figure in Modern Korean history, who, after a life struggling between Confucianism and Christianity, Korean nationalism and Japanese collaboration, left behind 50 years’ worth of diary entries that bear witness of the end of the Korean Empire and the entire colonial period. It serves as source to understand how Japanese colonial policy concerning burial practice influenced the mind-set and actions of the Korean elite. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 6-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1717131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1717131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1716143_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ri-Hye Han Author-X-Name-First: Ri-Hye Author-X-Name-Last: Han Title: Graveyard geomancy in Korea under Japanese rule – Focusing on the 1930s Abstract: The “Gravesite Ordinance” was introduced to colonial Korea in 1912, forbidding private graveyards, limiting burials to public cemeteries and establishing cremation as the main means of burial. This aimed at establishing legal grounds for the burial customs Japanese settlers had brought with them, but also was a means to systematize Korean graves. At the time, legal disputes about private graveyard properties of Koreans were ensnaring the judiciary system. Also, many mountains covered with loose graveyards were a steady reminder of death that made it impossible to put such spaces to use for mining or infrastructural purposes. Koreans were strongly antagonized by the new law, for it ignored Confucian tradition and custom as well as geomantic principles. Koreans voiced their discontent with the new law, so one major revision was made after the outbreak of the March First Movement in 1919. The amendment however only changed rules for the Korean elite, so the masses became even further disgruntled. Thus, the number of law suits concerning graveyards did not decline, but the content changed: now frequent violations of the new law became the issue. Korean non-obedience of the laws led to secret burials and other forms of non-acceptance which were then criminalized by the Japanese authorities. Through an analysis of lawsuits, crime records, newspapers and other historical material this article shows that the Japanese law intending to “modernize” in the end had the contrary effect. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 25-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1716143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1716143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:25-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1709137_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Chizuru Tainaka Author-X-Name-First: Chizuru Author-X-Name-Last: Tainaka Title: The “improvement of funeral ceremonies” movement and the creation of “modern” Japanese subjects in Taiwan during Japanese rule Abstract: This paper is a historical inquiry into the movement for the “improvement of funeral ceremonies” in Taiwan under Japanese Rule as it unfolded from the 1930s. The traditional funerary culture of Taiwan has been researched and analyzed thoroughly by cultural anthropologists, but there were only few insights into how the political and colonial configuration of society changed and in turn influenced the contents of funeral ceremonies and the attitudes of those involved in them. In later colonial Taiwan, where the majority of the Taiwanese population was comprised of Han Chinese who shared cultural ties and values with China, a “modernization” (= Japanization) of funeral ceremonies was achieved by the ruling Japanese authorities according to their own values. In order to prove this in detail and to understand the entire process, it is necessary to look at this topic also from an historian’s standpoint. In this paper, various source material from colonial Taiwan is used to identify and inspect the movement for the “improvement of funeral ceremonies”, see what it aimed at and how new practices were realized. Also, changes in the tendency of cremation rates and the use of public graveyards are scrutinized. Finally, this paper analyzes the conflicts and discontinuities caused in Taiwanese mentality by the denial of the traditional funeral rituals by Japanese authorities, and considers how such changes were perceived in literary works of Taiwanese who published in the Japanese language at that time. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 43-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1709137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1709137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:43-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1714279_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Celia Spoden Author-X-Name-First: Celia Author-X-Name-Last: Spoden Title: Deciding one’s own death in advance: Biopower, living wills, and resistance to a legislation of death with dignity in Japan Abstract: The usage of medical technologies alongside the medicalization of death brought about the medical norm of fighting for life with all means available. Yet, this norm was questioned and the demand for patient autonomy gained importance. It is in this context that the right to die movement emerged in 1976, and living wills were introduced in Japan. The right to die movement promotes legislation of “death with dignity” arguing for patient empowerment, whereas their opponents warn against social exclusion of severely ill, old, and disabled people. Against this discursive background, I draw on qualitative interviews with Japanese who signed a living will and examine what motivated them to engage in advance decision-making. In recourse to the Foucauldian notions of biopower and biopolitics, I show that the living will is a technology of the entrepreneurial self, to govern itself. My research participants expressed their critical awareness for a variety of problems they aim to solve by their living will, e.g. paternalism and overtreatment, conflicting values and attitudes toward life-sustaining treatments between family members, as well as shortcomings in the social security and care sector. Hence, through the living will the risks of life are shifted to the self-responsibility of the individual, who opts for death to avoid becoming a burden on others and society. Accordingly, the living will can be seen as a means of the neo-liberal state to increasingly withdraw from its social responsibility of granting the right to comprehensive health care, a secure old age, and adequate care. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 63-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1714279 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1714279 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:63-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1680512_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nils Dahl Author-X-Name-First: Nils Author-X-Name-Last: Dahl Title: Governing through kodokushi. Japan’s lonely deaths and their impact on community self-government Abstract: As more and more older persons in Japan are living in one-person-households, the number of unaccompanied and undetected deaths has risen as well. These so-called “lonely deaths” (kodokushi) have been problematized in various contexts over the last decades. Popular mass media reports interpret the growing number of kodokushi as a sign of the demise of traditional values, while academic publications interlink the issue with broader societal challenges such as social isolation, poverty, or social exclusion. This article traces how kodokushi developed from a rare event at the margins of society into a buzzword in the center of public attention. It discusses how the contemporary discourse constructs kodokushi as a “bad death” and how this negative image is utilized as an incentive to construct efficient local welfare networks. In this regard, the article introduces the example of a local initiative that tries to reduce the number of lonely deaths through raising the residents’ awareness of the issue and through re-activating neighborhood life. By doing this, it promotes a certain set of values and rules, therefore not only governing the residents’ deaths, but also attempting to positively influence their lifestyles. The article reveals the effects and practical problems of this strategy. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 83-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1680512 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1680512 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:83-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1717105_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dorothea Mladenova Author-X-Name-First: Dorothea Author-X-Name-Last: Mladenova Title: Optimizing one’s own death: The Shūkatsu industry and the enterprising self in a hyper-aged society Abstract: Since 2009, the preparation for one’s own end-of-life (shūkatsu) has become a media buzzword. Conceptualized by the funeral industry, it provides a model subject formation along with a set of self-technologies that individuals are supposed to follow. Following the lines of governmentality studies and subjectivation research, this paper scrutinizes shūkatsu by looking both at the model subjects’ programmatic implications and at the actual ways of subjectivation as practiced by the addressees of the program. The analysis is based on field research and interviews with both shūkatsu suppliers and addressees. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 103-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1717105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1717105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:103-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1718393_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Wiemann Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Wiemann Title: Smartphones versus NHK? Mobilization strategies of the Japanese anti-nuclear movement under Abe’s restrictive media policy Abstract: Against the background of Japan’s falling rank in the Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom index, from 22 in 2011/12 to 61 in 2015, and a growing self-censorship within Japanese mainstream media since Prime Minister Abe took office in 2012, this article examines what media strategies are adopted by social movement actors and asks whether Internet-based media strategies replace contacts to mass media circles. Media coverage plays an important role in movement mobilization; however, the relationship between media and social movements is characterized by a power relationship leaning toward media actors, as social movement scholars such as Gamson and Wolfsfeld suggest. This article tackles these questions from the perspective of movement actors based on 24 qualitative semi-structured interviews with representatives of social movement organizations active in the anti-nuclear movement conducted in 2013 and 2014 in the Greater Tokyo Area. The results indicate that with growing public demand for alternative internet-based information by civic groups, movement organizations expand their activities in this realm while at the same time they do not neglect mass media contacts. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 128-140 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1718393 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1718393 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:128-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1621716_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nora Kottmann Author-X-Name-First: Nora Author-X-Name-Last: Kottmann Title: Intimacy and reproduction in contemporary Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 141-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1621716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1621716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:141-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1603823_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florian Purkarthofer Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Purkarthofer Title: An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo’s commuter train network Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 145-147 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1603823 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1603823 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:145-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1302122_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 148-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1302122 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2017.1302122 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:148-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1810967_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the Managing Editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 149-149 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1810967 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1810967 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:149-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1735050_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julia Gerster Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Gerster Author-Name: Natalia Morokhova Author-X-Name-First: Natalia Author-X-Name-Last: Morokhova Title: Picturing translocal matters in a mobile world: Photography as a method of ethnographic research at a Japanese gathering in Berlin Abstract: Using photo sessions in combination with three in-depth interviews at a Japanese party called Ankokai in Berlin, we explore how the method of photography along with the participant’s choice of personal objects in the photographs positively influences narrative interviews. Literally meaning “red bean paste meeting”, the Ankokai was originally used as a way for the Japanese gay community to meet in Berlin but nowadays attracts people from all kinds of backgrounds. Keeping the ethnographic research method in mind, our underlying research question asks how translocal categories of migration are reflected in the participants’ choices of personal objects in the photographs. Although larger studies are required to verify this claim, we found that photography can be a strong tool for enacting reciprocity and building rapport in ethnographic research. Furthermore, the participants’ choices of personal objects for these pictures support powerful personal narratives as the research participants’ active participation in the photo session enabled them to reflect on their experiences of migration. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 150-173 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1735050 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735050 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:150-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1770477_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Viktoriya Kim Author-X-Name-First: Viktoriya Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Author-Name: Philip Streich Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Streich Title: Tabunka Kyōsei without immigration policy: The role of centers for international exchange and their challenges Abstract: Japan today faces several demographic-related challenges: population decline, an aging population, and a declining workforce. One of the proposed solutions to these challenges is to allow more foreign workers into Japan. However, this move is being organized without the implementation of blanket immigration and integration policies. Despite ongoing resistance in political and societal fields toward the creation of an explicit immigration policy, there is currently a prototype of an integration policy introduced by the Japanese government in 2006 – tabunka kyōsei (multicultural community building) – aimed at the social integration of foreign residents into Japanese communities. This article focuses on issues related to immigration and integration policies in Japan and how a lack of both challenges integration initiatives on the local level through centers for international exchange (kokusai kōryū sentā). We examine the issues behind immigration and integration in Japan and the role of these centers. Our analysis includes a review of immigration and integration programs in Japan to identify the gap between those and actual needs, with a focus on the role of the centers for international exchange. We then analyze the centers themselves, discussing how they apply government policy and resources; the current state of the centers; and foreign residents’ participation in the activities of such centers. In sum, we review the current state of foreigners’ integration in Japan and analyze the role the centers for international exchange play in incorporating them into the society and economy. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 174-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1770477 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1770477 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:174-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1766646_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jennifer M. McGuire Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer M. Author-X-Name-Last: McGuire Title: Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth Abstract: Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research, this article examines the interlinking processes of “self-searching” (jibun sagashi) and sign language acquisition among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) Japanese youth, together with the role of friendships. At the center of this study are self-identified “inte” (short for “integration”): DHH youth ages 18 to 24 who were educated in mainstream schools. Schools for the deaf have been positioned as one of the “pillars” of deaf communities around the world, playing an important role in transmitting language and culture while providing spaces for belonging. These schools are perceived by many DHH people as sites of inclusion, sameness, and mutually intelligible communication. Japan is part of an international trend toward educating children with disabilities in mainstream settings. Despite being the norm in Japan, the long-term effects of educating DHH in mainstream schools are poorly understood. This study reveals that these spaces are often marked by isolation, difference, and barriers. By focusing on tōjisha (the person in question) rather than gatekeepers (educators, parents, policy makers), this article illustrates how Sign language (shuwa) and DHH peers are essential factors in the formation of positive deaf youth selfhood. As inte move between the hearing, spoken-language world they were raised in, and a new deaf world with an unknown visual-spatial language, they work to reconcile internalized stigma with a desire to create social bonds through friendships as they (re)negotiate selfhood and redefine deafness. Friendships based on “shared difference” are shown to help mitigate the assimilative pressures facing marginalized youth in Japan. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 197-217 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1766646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1766646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:197-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1747780_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sam Bamkin Author-X-Name-First: Sam Author-X-Name-Last: Bamkin Title: The taught curriculum of moral education at Japanese elementary school: the role of classtime in the broad curriculum Abstract: The school curriculum in Japan provides for moral education. Teachers’ educational practice is influenced by the written curriculum, and must be organised around its audited requirements. However, it may diverge from aspects of what the curriculum prescribes. Though previous studies have explored pedagogic beliefs and spontaneous practices, few have considered pedagogic planning in the context of the written curriculum. Drawing on classroom observations and interviews with teachers and educators, this study seeks to understand the taught curriculum of moral education in Japan: how it is structured “on the ground” and how schools and teachers plan moral education. Moral education classtime (moral education in the narrow sense) emerges as a site for reflection and pre-learning which supports the learning of prosocial behaviour (moral education in the broad sense), which is planned primarily through other educational activities. Understanding these intra-curricula relations addresses long-standing questions in the study of Japanese education. It also holds significance for the development of theory in pedagogy for moral education, suggesting new directions for moral education in intra-curricular connection and planning incidental learning. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 218-239 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1747780 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1747780 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:218-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1793537_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eyal Ben-Ari Author-X-Name-First: Eyal Author-X-Name-Last: Ben-Ari Title: Area studies and the disciplines: Japanese Studies and anthropology in comparative perspective Abstract: This article analyzes the social and institutional dynamics by which knowledge in Japanese studies is produced in the English-using academic world, the dominant global academic system, which as such is an arbiter for much of what “we” take as research. It utilizes the case of Japanese Studies as the analytical focus because it has been the site of great changes during the past seven or so decades, is rooted in a number of (linguistic) academic communities, and has been studied by the whole variety of the social scientific disciplines. This article tackles four issues. First, it sketches out the reasons for the continued interest in and development of Japanese Studies that differ from other area studies by tackling its adaptive potential (in institutional terms). Second, by situating Japanese Studies in terms of the global production of knowledge it defines how Japanese Studies is variously seen as peripheral, marginal or provincial in terms of the Euro-American centers. Third, given the ever-increasing theoretical citation in articles published in Japanese Studies (as in other regional studies) it analyses the division of labor between the disciplines and area studies. Fourth, it examines the importance of Japanese popular culture for its growth as an outcome of wider social processes within the academic dynamics of American and British universities. This article tackles these issues in an exploratory and purposely provocative manner. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 240-261 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1793537 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1793537 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:240-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1630591_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: William L. Brooks Author-X-Name-First: William L. Author-X-Name-Last: Brooks Title: The self-defense forces and postwar politics in Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 262-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1630591 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1630591 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:262-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1634347_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian Tagsold Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Tagsold Title: Review of Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times: A profile of modern Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 265-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1634347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1634347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:265-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1641000_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cornelia Reiher Author-X-Name-First: Cornelia Author-X-Name-Last: Reiher Title: Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific citizenship and the politics of risk Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 267-269 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1641000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1641000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:267-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1655696_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sonja Hülsebus Author-X-Name-First: Sonja Author-X-Name-Last: Hülsebus Title: Das Atombombenmuseum Hiroshima: Erinnern jenseits der Nation (1945-1975) Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 269-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1655696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1655696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:269-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1671646_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonathan Krautter Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Krautter Title: Marketcraft: How governments make markets work, Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 272-275 Issue: 2 Volume: 32 Year: 2020 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1671646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1671646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:32:y:2020:i:2:p:272-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1891497_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1891497 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1891497 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1847389_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rumika Suzuki Hillyer Author-X-Name-First: Rumika Suzuki Author-X-Name-Last: Hillyer Title: Staying connected: Effects of online platforms on transnational family relations and social capital Abstract: By recruiting participants from the social-networking website InterNations, this qualitative interview-based research explores how Nikkei Brazilians maintain intimate family relations and cultivate interpersonal connections within their local communities via Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This research investigates the role of ICT and social media in maintaining transnational family ties and social capital in local communities for Nikkei Brazilian migrants in Japan. For Nikkei Brazilians who struggle with finding their own niche upon their migration to Japan, online communication with family and friends in Brazil helps provide emotional support that assists with acclimation to Japanese society. ICT and social media also serve as avenues for recent migrants to meet people based on similar interests and backgrounds. Regardless of ample online resources, some interviewees report that work-oriented lifestyles, cultural differences and language barriers make it harder to become acquainted with local Japanese communities. Interviewees’ backgrounds, such as their occupations, intended lengths of stay, and areas of residency in Japan, are examined to identify factors facilitating the expansion of connections with local communities in Japan while simultaneously sustaining healthy family relationships transnationally. Additionally, this research engages a previously unstudied group of expatriate workers, who have stable careers and have lived in Japan for more than a decade. Their particular experiences and perspectives provide new ways of approaching and framing Nikkei Brazilian migrant studies. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1847389 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1847389 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:3-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1852369_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Satoshi Machida Author-X-Name-First: Satoshi Author-X-Name-Last: Machida Title: War memories and Japanese citizens’ views toward the self-defense forces Abstract: War memories among the Japanese have played a critical role in shaping their perceptions of peace, providing various opportunities where they can learn about World War II. In spite of their critical importance in Japanese society, very few studies have systematically examined how war memories influence Japanese citizens' views toward defense issues. The present research addresses the gap in the literature. More specifically, this study examines how exposures to war memories shape Japanese citizens' opinions of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF). Building upon the implications from studies on peace education and international relations, I hypothesize that exposures to war memories enhance Japanese citizens' support for the SDF's “reassurance” Strategy, which emphasizes a more conciliatory stance in the world. Results of the statistical analysis relying on the survey data in Japan verify the validity of this hypothesis. By dissecting the process through which Japanese citizens develop their opinions about defense policy, this study significantly advances our understanding of the relationship between peace education and international relations, thus providing critical implications that are highly useful in understanding Japan's security culture. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 24-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1852369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1852369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:24-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1792188_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Damian J. Rivers Author-X-Name-First: Damian J. Author-X-Name-Last: Rivers Title: Japanese national identity and the positioning of English as opportunity or obstruction Abstract: As an aspirational activity, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education is a compulsory pursuit within many education systems around the world. Common to many such contexts, EFL is taught in relation to a dominant national language and therefore exists within a marginal, non-official or non-native position. However, this domestic marginalization often misaligns with the economic significance, cultural prominence and symbolic capital attributed to English, and this is evident within Japan. Therefore, the teaching of EFL to Japanese nationals within pre-tertiary education can be expected to evoke certain identity-related emotions. Despite such plain sight observations, the affective role played by dimensions of national identity within EFL education remains understudied. Through a path-analysis procedure undertaken with a university student sample, this article explores how dimensions of Japanese national identity predict the positioning of EFL as opportunity or obstruction. The study also examines how this relationship is mediated by an emotional attachment to the local and the foreign language. The research reflects an interdisciplinary exploration of identity and its affective impact upon EFL positioning within contemporary Japanese society. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 41-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1792188 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1792188 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:41-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1824647_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tobias Weiss Author-X-Name-First: Tobias Author-X-Name-Last: Weiss Title: Uniformity or polarization? The nuclear power debate in Japanese newspapers and political coalitions, 1973–2014 Abstract: The image of Japanese mainstream media reporting is dominated by the institution of “press clubs”. Critical researchers argue that these restricted and institutionalized links between mainstream media and their sources lead to uniformity in media reporting. Other researchers contend that Japanese journalists play diverse roles and frame issues in diverse ways. These contrasting theses are explored through an analysis of three major newspaper's framing of nuclear power in article series (rensai). First, we construct a set of frames of the nuclear power issue out of materials from two political alliances: the pronuclear alliance (the so called “nuclear village”), and the antinuclear alliance. We apply and adapt these frames using a sample of newspaper article series from 1973 to 2014. The comparison shows that there are significant differences of reporting both between newspaper organizations as well as between different periods. Especially for the phase after 2011, reporting turns pronouncedly nuclear-skeptical in two newspapers. While not denying press club influence, the analysis cautions against mechanically applying a distinction between “insider” and “outsider” media and calls for new analytical categories to explain the substantial differences of framing between journalists of various “insider” media organizations. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 57-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1824647 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1824647 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:57-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1847390_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hansun Hsiung Author-X-Name-First: Hansun Author-X-Name-Last: Hsiung Title: Épistémologie à la japonaise: Kanamori Osamu and the history and philosophy of science in Japan Abstract: As the history of science makes its “global turn,” it has become ever more vital to pluralize the geography of its theoretical voices. This article takes up the challenge by introducing Anglophone scholars to the work of the late Kanamori Osamu (1954-2016), a major force in the introduction of French épistémologie and SSK (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge) to Japan. Centered around a review of three volumes edited by Kanamori shortly before his death, I explore Kanamori’s approach to the history of science as a philosophical critique of reason, and his championing of eclecticism in the face of mounting presentism and policy-oriented studies of science in Japan. From here, I consider the barriers facing the translation of modern Japanese scientific thought into English. Finally, I signal three overlooked arenas where future collaboration between Anglophone historians of science and historians of scientific thought in Japan might flourish: in rethinking the status of gender; in drawing new epistemic maps of premodern Eurasia; in outlining the processes behind the construction of a shared Asian modernity. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 123-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1847390 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1847390 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:123-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1671662_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mark Teeuwen Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Teeuwen Title: Soka Gakkai’s human revolution: The rise of a mimetic nation in modern Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 138-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1671662 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1671662 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:138-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1708635_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eyal Ben-Ari Author-X-Name-First: Eyal Author-X-Name-Last: Ben-Ari Title: The Anime Boom in the United States: lessons for global creative industries Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 141-143 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2019.1708635 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2019.1708635 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:141-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1735081_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lee Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Lee Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: The sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional baseball in modern Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 143-146 Issue: 1 Volume: 33 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2020.1735081 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2020.1735081 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:33:y:2021:i:1:p:143-146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783809_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yuki Abe Author-X-Name-First: Yuki Author-X-Name-Last: Abe Title: The nuclear power debate after Fukushima: a text-mining analysis of Japanese newspapers Abstract: This paper analyzes the debate on nuclear power after the Fukushima accident by using a text-mining approach. Texts are taken from the editorial articles of five major Japanese newspapers, Asahi Shinbun, Mainichi Shinbun, Nikkei Shinbun, Sankei Shinbun and Yomiuri Shinbun. After elucidating their different views on nuclear power policy, including general issues such as radiation risks, renewable energy and lessons from the meltdown, the paper reveals two main strands of arguments. Newspapers in favor of denuclearization appeal to “democratic values.” They advocate public participation in decisions on future energy policy and criticize the closed-off administration of nuclear energy. Meanwhile, pro-nuclear newspapers adopt a “technological nationalistic” stance, claiming that denuclearization will weaken Japan’s superiority in the field of nuclear power technology. In other words, the debate about the nuclear power is not merely about energy supply, but also about the choices facing Japanese society over visions for the future after the events of Fukushima. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 89-110 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:89-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783810_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emanuela Costa Author-X-Name-First: Emanuela Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Title: A tale of two tongues: self-translation in Sekiguchi Ryōko’s poetry Abstract: Literary self-translation is a practice that has gained increasing scholarly attention in the fields of postcolonial, transnational studies and translation studies, following the rise in the number of bilingual and plurilingual writers over the twentieth and twenty-first century. In the Japanese context, a growing body of research on works by authors who write in more than one language is now calling for an acknowledgment of how bilingual literature has been “shaking” the foundations of modern Japanese literature, as Komori (1998) suggests, by breaking the equation between nationality, ethnicity, national language and culture that had been developed during the nation-building process in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In this paper, I analyze the work of Sekiguchi Ryōko, a contemporary poet based in France, who writes free-verse poetry in Japanese and self-translates it into French. In the first part, the paper examines a poem included in the collections Hakkōsei Diapositive (Japanese) and Calque (French) to illustrate how Sekiguchi conceives self-translation as a process that destabilizes the categories of original and translation. Addressing questions of authenticity and fidelity, Sekiguchi seeks to explore the creative potential of translation as a means to reconsider one’s affiliation to the mother tongue. In the second part, the paper focuses on Sekiguchi’s multilingual public readings, arguing that they offer alternative ways of thinking about translation, communication and linguistic identities, for they stress the need to foster an understanding of languages as historically positioned systems, but also encourage readers to step outside normative linguistic paradigms. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 111-130 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:111-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783811_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kim Mawer Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Mawer Title: Casting new light on shadow education: snapshots of juku variety Abstract: This paper takes a look at the juku [cram school] landscape of an area in the urban outskirts of Osaka. In Japan, juku represent a major part of out-of-school supplementary education. As educational businesses outside the realm of formal schooling, they provide services aimed towards answering diverse educational needs. As a market, juku display large revenues, which shows their economic impact and considerable breadth of services. As has been discussed both in domestic and overseas studies, one of their main functions is to prepare students for entrance exams for the next higher level of education. However, the strong connection implied by existing research between juku and the entrance examination system has hindered a more detailed understanding of their roles in Japanese education. This paper presents research based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of six juku in Osaka. Providing insights into the strategies used to secure students, it will be shown how juku go beyond improving their students’ academic abilities by offering individualised services that have a strong element of “care” to them. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 131-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:131-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783812_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juha Saunavaara Author-X-Name-First: Juha Author-X-Name-Last: Saunavaara Title: Multilevel relations in Japanese political parties at the beginning of the post-war period: Hokkaido as a case study Abstract: The recent political turmoil challenges one to study the function and form of the post-war Japanese political parties. The obvious differences in the spatial and temporal contexts do not change the fact that many of the organizational behavioral patterns that are topical in the analysis of the current situation can be found in the parties that were established during the erratic years following Japan’s defeat. With a focus on intra-party relations and on the multilayered institutional environment in which the political parties operate, this article focuses on Hokkaido, a region which analysts of Japanese political parties have often ignored. While demonstrating (a) the interconnectedness of different spheres in the political system, (b) the varying roles of central party organs in the development of local party branches, and (c) the personal relations prevailing over the official organizational channels, the analysis of the control and granting of autonomy pays special attention to the first gubernatorial elections in Hokkaido. This is because the electoral competitions and the creation of electoral products are recognized as moments when the relations between local branches and central leadership are defined. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 149-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:149-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783813_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Toshio Takemoto Author-X-Name-First: Toshio Author-X-Name-Last: Takemoto Title: Constructing the self in Megumu Sagisawa’s and Miri Yu’s travelogues: a case study of two Japan-based female writers of Korean origin Abstract: This paper compares the travelogues of two contemporary zainichi Korean writers: Kenari mo hana, sakura mo hana [Forsythias are flowers, cherry blossoms too] by Megumu Sagisawa (1994) and Pyonyan no natsuyasumi: Watashi ga mita Kitachōsen [Summer vacation in Pyongyang: The way I’ve seen North Korea] by Miri Yu (2011). Sagisawa recalls her experiences as a foreign student in Seoul in 1993. Yu describes three visits to North Korea between 2008 and 2010. The aim of this paper is to examine the literary identity of the two writers and develop this notion into a more specific critical device. As the analysis shows, Yu describes a scenery of North Korea that is appropriate for the portrayal of herself to others, while Sagisawa tries to form a self between Japan and South Korea. Identity here is a sense of belonging with respect to the question what group to connect with. Sagisawa wonders whether to assign herself to the pre-existing category of the zainichi kyoppo [Korean nationals in Japan]. She creates a story about the search of herself, in which her identity is subject to change during the narrative. By contrast, Yu creates the Korean peninsula as her homeland in the literary space. She presents a uniform self-image that remains unchanged by the dynamics of the narrative. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 169-188 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:169-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783814_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul Capobianco Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Capobianco Title: Confronting diversity: Africans challenging Japanese societal convictions Abstract: This paper examines how sub-Saharan Africans in Japan challenge three Japanese societal convictions: the myth of Japanese homogeneity, ideas concerning contemporary blackness, and inclusivity into Japanese self-identity. The analysis is based on participant-observation fieldwork and in-depth interviews with members of Japan’s African communities. As will be shown below, the particular conditions surrounding African migration are notably different from those of other minority groups in Japan. The African population embodies a phenotypically disparate population that has settled in Japan and engages in work within the core of mainstream society. Additionally, in contrast to other minority groups, African-Japanese children lack a strong ethnic consciousness. As a result it is increasingly likely they will demand greater acceptance into mainstream Japanese identity, thereby questioning some of the essential criteria of what it means to be Japanese. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 189-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2015-0011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2015-0011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:27:y:2015:i:2:p:189-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783765_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Florian Kohlbacher Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Kohlbacher Author-Name: Carola Hommerich Author-X-Name-First: Carola Author-X-Name-Last: Hommerich Title: Editorial Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 129-132 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:129-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783766_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Naohiro Yashiro Author-X-Name-First: Naohiro Author-X-Name-Last: Yashiro Title: Myths about Japanese employment practices: An increasing insider–outsider conflict of interests Abstract: It appears that Japanese employment practices, once hailed as one of the secrets to Japan's “miracle” of rapid economic development after World War II, are not keeping up with important changes in Japan's economy and society under deceleration of economic growth and aging of the population. Nevertheless, the current regulations protect the practices of lifetime employment security and seniority-based wages as a desirable work style. However, these practices not only deter labor market flexibility, but also entail social costs by creating a “wall” that divides insiders and outsiders of firm-specific labor markets, and this leads to large wage disparities. Furthermore, these practices create an “implicit packaged contract” between firms and their employees, allowing the firm wide discretion over employees' work style, including working hours and job placement. As more women pursue full-time careers, they are being forced into the difficult position of having to choose between their careers outside the home or their children. The difficulty of this decision has resulted in a rapidly declining fertility rate. This paper argues that Japanese employment practices need to be revolutionized to allow better work–life balance and an alternative lifestyle for an increasing number of dual-income families. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 133-155 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:133-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783767_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Atsuhiro Yamada Author-X-Name-First: Atsuhiro Author-X-Name-Last: Yamada Author-Name: Masa Higo Author-X-Name-First: Masa Author-X-Name-Last: Higo Title: Institutional barriers to work beyond retirement in an aging Japan: Evidence from a recent employee survey Abstract: This paper focuses on institutional barriers to older workers' continued work beyond the conventional retirement age in contemporary Japan. Under the current institutional arrangements, most older workers in Japan, contending with mandatory retirement rules at the workplace, have the option of being re-employed after mandatory retirement, and experience large wage reductions if they choose this option. We examine how these institutional arrangements in Japan today affect older workers' views and decisions regarding their future labor market behaviors. Using a multi-nomial logit analysis, we analyze data drawn from a nationally representative sample of 1,400 male regular employees, aged 57 to 59, who participated in the 2007 “Survey on continued employment and occupational life after age 60 (Rokujūsai ikō no keizoku kōyō to shokugyō seikatsu ni kansuru chōsa)”, which was conducted by the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT). Our analysis has found (i) that older workers do not want to be re-employed if their prospective wages are lower than their desired minimum level; (ii) that, if they choose not to be re-employed, they tend to seek alternative employment opportunities by themselves rather than retiring; and (iii) that, other than prospective wage level, the prospective total income (including “in-work” social security benefits) and the availability of flexible work arrangements are crucial factors affecting the future labor market behaviors of older workers. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 157-186 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:157-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783768_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wendy A. Spinks Author-X-Name-First: Wendy A. Author-X-Name-Last: Spinks Author-Name: Wendy Spinks Author-X-Name-First: Wendy Author-X-Name-Last: Spinks Title: In the midst of transition: Salaryman senryū poems and the perception of workplace change Abstract: This paper analyzes a set of 9,035 salaryman senryū poems over an eighteen-year period (1990–2007) in order to track salaryman reactions to workplace transition from an organizational behavioralist perspective. Major findings include: (i) the number of submissions and votes for the major poetry competition, Salaryman Senryū, have been falling since 1994, suggesting a decline in shared salaryman mentality; (ii) there has been a shift in the relative importance of broad themes, so that the workplace as a category of senryū poems is of less centrality in 2007 than it was in 1990; (iii) within the workplace category, (negative) interpersonal relations, especially with supervisors, still dominate; and (iv) workstyle is also a strong subtheme, with workers showing more interest in work processes than actual work conditions. The analysis also shows that the years 1996 and 1997 are a watershed where poems shift from a more jocular to strident tone. The overall implication of the study is a potential breach of the social contract between Japanese employers and regular employees, which will require the assiduous application of supportive employment practices (SEP) in order to ensure a high level of employee performance and engagement. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 187-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:187-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783769_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Akiko Yoshida Author-X-Name-First: Akiko Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshida Author-Name: Akiko Yoshida Author-X-Name-First: Akiko Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshida Title: No chance for romance: Corporate culture, gendered work, and increased singlehood in Japan Abstract: This paper is part of a larger study that investigates the cause of increased singlehood among women in Japan. On the basis of findings from qualitative research this paper argues that Japanese corporate practices and culture have severely limited women's opportunities for romantic encounters. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted in the Tokyo area with forty never-married and married women aged 25 to 46. The data were analyzed inductively. The findings reveal that long work hours for men, and in some cases for women, impeded opportunities for women to form romantic relationships in several ways: (i) men were seldom available; (ii) many married women expressed discontent with marriage due to the absence of husbands; many single women held ambivalent views toward marriage after having heard negative stories from married friends; (iii) some single women found it unappealing that corporate men could talk about nothing but work; and (iv) single women with careers regularly worked overtime and their devotion to work was regarded as “unfeminine”. Additionally, workplaces are often segregated by gender, further limiting opportunities for single women to meet potential partners. This paper sheds critical light on the culture and practices of Japanese corporations, arguing that such culture and practices create serious consequences for individuals' lives. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 213-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj.2011.011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj.2011.011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:23:y:2011:i:2:p:213-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783791_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jürgen Melzer Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Melzer Author-Name: Jürgen Melzer Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Melzer Title: “We must learn from Germany”: gliders and model airplanes as tools for Japan’s mass mobilization Abstract: This article explores the prominent role of Germany in the emergence of Japan’s glider and model-aircraft boom. It examines how the invitation of German specialists to Japan in 1935 started a “glider fever” that enabled the Japanese military to forge close bonds with the press and an air-minded public. In the following years Nazi Germany also provided the organizational blueprint for comprehensive aviation education that mobilized all aviation activities of Japanese youth in the service of national defense. Japanese anxieties about the expansion of foreign air power thus were successfully channeled into a wave of popular enthusiasm and participation that became instrumental for Japan’s military buildup and mobilization. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:1-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783792_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aaron Kingsbury Author-X-Name-First: Aaron Author-X-Name-Last: Kingsbury Title: Constructed heritage and co-produced meaning: the re-branding of wines from the Koshu grape Abstract: The last decade has seen large-scale cultural changes in the table grape and wine production industries of the Kōfu Basin in Yamanashi Prefecture. From the perspective of wineries, the recent rise in popularity of wines produced from the Koshu grape (Vitis vinifera var. orientalis) has secured their industrial recovery in the short term. This paper explores these changes, thereby contributing to the literature on the invention of traditions for economic profit and rural revitalization. Conclusions are drawn from archival research, interviews with stakeholders in the table grape and wine industries, and over one and one-half years as a grape farmer in the Kōfu Basin. Rather than significant improvements in educational or technical advancement in growing Koshu for wine or even wine production, the rise in popularity of wines produced from Koshu is argued to be more linked to the cultural re-branding of the grape based on co-produced and glocalized perceptions of simulacra in which the historical and local consumption of Koshu wine is equated with Japanese cuisine and culture. By connecting Koshu with Japanese identity and “Japaneseness,” branded wines now provide new opportunities for conspicuous consumption and “connoisseurship” for consumers. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 29-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:29-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783793_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Satsuki Kawano Author-X-Name-First: Satsuki Author-X-Name-Last: Kawano Title: “Who will care for me when I am dead?” Ancestors, homeless spirits, and new afterlives in low-fertility Japan Abstract: A growing number of older people in Japan lack reliable future caretakers for their family grave. By performing numerous memorial rites and maintaining their family grave, the bereaved typically transform the family dead into benevolent ancestors. However, what will happen to those whose ashes are not interred in a family grave? In this article, I examine one alternative to the family grave system – the scattering of ashes conducted by a citizen-based group called the Grave-Free Promotion Society of Japan (Sōsō no jiyū o susumeru kai). Contrary to the common assumption that it is usually childless people who decide on ash scattering, a number of the Society’s members in fact have adult children. What are the views of people who have adopted the scattering of ashes as a way of disposing of their own remains? Given that a grave remains a symbolic locus of familial continuity, the scattering of ashes seems to challenge the cherished ideas of filial piety and respect toward ancestors. By “returning to nature” through ash scattering and joining a benevolent force larger than their small family, older urbanites seek self-sufficiency in the postmortem world and attempt to lighten the ritual burden of their survivors regarding the maintenance of their family graves. Data for this study come from extended fieldwork conducted in Japan from 2002 to 2004. By using cohort analysis, this study shows that ash scattering meets the mortuary needs of those generations that tend to lack a ceremonial asset or a culturally preferred caregiver. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 49-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:49-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783794_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Steve R. Entrich Author-X-Name-First: Steve R. Author-X-Name-Last: Entrich Title: Effects of investments in out-of-school education in Germany and Japan Abstract: The aim of this paper is to clarify in what ways school performance and out-of-school lessons are linked, with special emphasis on social disparities in educational attainment. Previous research about shadow education indicates that out-of-school education may indeed be a factor to improve the academic achievement of school students. On the other hand, it is stated nearly without exception that the socioeconomic background of a student plays a significant role for academic achievement as well. Using data of the 2009 Programme for International Studen Assessment (PISA), this paper shows new findings in comparing effects of shadow education investments on students’ performance in Japan and Germany. We found that out-of-school education investments in both countries led to four significant outcomes: (i) in Japan, high school students’ academic achievement is increased due to out-of-school lessons; (ii) in both countries there is great variation in how out-of-school lessons affect academic performance according to the types of out-of-school lessons and the area of stay; (iii) out-of-school education determines higher achievement scores in international comparison in a decisive way and therefore provides a reasonable explanation for the Japanese success in PISA; and (iv) since the mid-1990s the system in Japan has advanced from a mixed to a predominantly enrichment out-of-school education system, while the German out-of-school education system is still of remedial character. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 71-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:71-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783795_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Silvia Croydon Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Croydon Title: The death penalty in a changing society: a survey of recent developments in Japan Abstract: Japan’s society and law in particular has recently undergone some significant changes. This article identifies five of these developments that could potentially impact practices relating to the death penalty there, and investigates the effect that they have had so far. Specifically, the developments introduced are: the amendment of the Prison Law governing for the death penalty; the introduction of citizen participation in death penalty-related trials; the change of power to the Democratic Party of Japan; the adoption of new abolitionist instruments by international and regional organizations in which Japan participates; and, the possible establishment of a National Human Rights Institution with power to make recommendations to the government. I argue that at least some of these developments have had a tangible impact, and at the very least are likely to bring down the veil of secrecy currently shrouding death row inmates. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 103-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:103-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783796_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Miki Toyofuku Author-X-Name-First: Miki Author-X-Name-Last: Toyofuku Title: The end of salaryman tax reduction: Japan’s tax policy and its social background Abstract: Personal income tax reductions can be considered popular policies to attract volatile voters. Nevertheless, after a series of tax cuts from the rapid growth period until the 1990s, the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) refrained from pursuing any more similar policy measures. This paper explores the relationship between the LDP and the electorate by focusing on tax policy. It highlights that the volatile social group of the “salaryman,” which consists of salaried workers and their families, used to have great influence on tax policy under previous LDP governments. Personal income tax reductions until the 1980s thus were meant to be salaryman tax reductions. They took place during a period when the social group of the salaryman developed into a mainstream part of Japan’s society. However, the group failed to maintain its influence after the 1990s, since when it has been diminishing both in size and in homogeneity. This paper holds that it was this decline of the salaryman population that prevented the LDP government from making any further personal income tax cuts. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 125-149 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:125-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_11783797_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrich Heinze Author-X-Name-First: Ulrich Author-X-Name-Last: Heinze Author-Name: Penelope Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Penelope Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: Self and salvation: visions of hikikomori in Japanese manga Abstract: This article explores theoretical and popular views on the acute social withdrawal syndrome in Japan, known as hikikomori. Most sociologists contextualize hikikomori within the economic downturn of Japan and the subsequent economic pressure on individuals, also reflected in the growing number of furītā and NEET. Psychologically, hikikomori is a radical version of the otaku, the Internet and computer addict, who can communicate only within his virtual peer group. However, both sociological theories and popular narratives have recently observed a growing acceptance and even an improvement of the image of these psycho-social patterns. While the story of the charming otaku called Densha otoko (‘train man’) has been adapted into all visual media, some hikikomori, too, have been promoted to manga heroes, e.g., in Takimoto Tatsuhiko’s Welcome to the NHK and Oku Hiroya’s Mēteru no kimochi. Sociologist Ishikawa Ryōko reads hikikomori in her recent field study as a rather positive, though long-term process of self-confirmation. This change in the image of otaku and hikikomori therefore reflects a subliminal revolution of traditional and outdated Japanese concepts of obligation, work, and masculinity. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 151-169 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2014 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1515/cj-2014-0007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1515/cj-2014-0007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:151-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826841_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Verena Blechinger Author-X-Name-First: Verena Author-X-Name-Last: Blechinger Author-Name: Jochen Legewie Author-X-Name-First: Jochen Author-X-Name-Last: Legewie Title: Japans neue Rolle in Asien: Einleitung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 15-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826841 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826841 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:15-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826842_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yūji Ōaku Author-X-Name-First: Yūji Author-X-Name-Last: Ōaku Author-Name: Jürgen Stalph Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Stalph Title: Der Begriff „Asien” aus japanischer Sicht Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 27-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826842 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826842 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:27-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826843_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Johann P. Arnason Author-X-Name-First: Johann P. Author-X-Name-Last: Arnason Title: Comparing Japan: The Return to Asia Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 33-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826843 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826843 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:33-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826844_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: J.A.A. Stockwin Author-X-Name-First: J.A.A. Author-X-Name-Last: Stockwin Title: Beyond the ‘Asian Model’ of Democracy? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 55-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:55-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826845_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Verena Blechinger Author-X-Name-First: Verena Author-X-Name-Last: Blechinger Title: Zwischen Bilateralismus und Regionalismus: Die Innenpolitische Debatte über eine neue politische Rolle Japans in Asien Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 71-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826845 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826845 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:71-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826846_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isa Ducke Author-X-Name-First: Isa Author-X-Name-Last: Ducke Title: Moral Leverage as a Means in International Relations: The Case of Japan and South Korea Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 107-130 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:107-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826847_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martina Timmermann Author-X-Name-First: Martina Author-X-Name-Last: Timmermann Title: Eine kohärente japanische Menschenrechts-politik: Schlüssel zu politischem Profil, Prestige und Potential (nicht nur) in Asien Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 131-158 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826847 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826847 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:131-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826848_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Glenn D. Hook Author-X-Name-First: Glenn D. Author-X-Name-Last: Hook Title: Japan and the ASEAN Regional Forum: Bilateralism, Multilateralism or Supplementalism? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 159-188 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:159-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826849_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gunther Schnabl Author-X-Name-First: Gunther Author-X-Name-Last: Schnabl Title: Die Rolle Japans für die internationale Arbeitsteilung in Ostasien Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 189-214 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826849 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826849 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:189-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826850_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jochen Legewie Author-X-Name-First: Jochen Author-X-Name-Last: Legewie Title: Wirtschaftliche Integration der ASEAN Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 215-247 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:215-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826851_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beate Reszat Author-X-Name-First: Beate Author-X-Name-Last: Reszat Title: Wirtschaftsgeographische Aspekte der Stellung Japans als Finanzzentrum Ostasiens Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 249-276 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826851 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826851 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:249-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826852_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrick Reinmöller Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Reinmöller Title: Wissen über Asien als Schlüssel zu Japans neuer wirtschaftlicher Führungsrolle Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 277-302 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:277-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826853_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Matthias Koch Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Koch Title: Japans Rolle als führende zivile Kernenergienation in Asien Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 303-333 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:303-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826854_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hilaria Gössmann Author-X-Name-First: Hilaria Author-X-Name-Last: Gössmann Author-Name: Renate Jaschke Author-X-Name-First: Renate Author-X-Name-Last: Jaschke Author-Name: Andreas Mrugalla Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Mrugalla Title: Fremdheit oder Vertrautheit? Die Begegnung zwischen Japan und seinen asiatischen Nachbarn im Spiegel des Fernsehdramas Doku Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 335-368 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 1999 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.1999.11826854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.1999.11826854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:10:y:1999:i:1:p:335-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826855_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfgang Seifert Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Seifert Title: Notiz zum Begriffsverständnis von shimin shakai in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 19-30 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826855 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826855 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:19-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wilhelm Vosse Author-X-Name-First: Wilhelm Author-X-Name-Last: Vosse Title: The Emergence of a Civil Society in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 31-53 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:31-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826857_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patricia G. Steinhoff Author-X-Name-First: Patricia G. Author-X-Name-Last: Steinhoff Title: Doing the Defendant's Laundry: Support Groups as Social Movement Organizations in Contemporary Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 55-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:55-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826858_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert Scott North Author-X-Name-First: Robert Scott Author-X-Name-Last: North Title: Karōshi Activism and Recent Trends in Japanese Civil Society: Creating Credible Knowledge and Culture Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 79-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826858 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826858 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:79-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826859_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katharina Heyer Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Heyer Title: Between Equality and Difference: The Politics of Disability in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 105-133 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:105-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826860_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isao Miyaoka Author-X-Name-First: Isao Author-X-Name-Last: Miyaoka Title: State-Society Relations under Foreign Pressure: Two Contrasting Cases in the Japanese Fisheries Policy Community Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 135-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:135-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826861_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Manuel Metzler Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Metzler Title: Devianz auf Japanisch Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 165-191 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:165-191 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rieko Tomo Author-X-Name-First: Rieko Author-X-Name-Last: Tomo Title: A Content Analysis of Interpersonal Coping-Behavior in Japanese and German Primary School Textbooks Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 193-209 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:193-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826863_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katja Caßing-Nakamura Author-X-Name-First: Katja Author-X-Name-Last: Caßing-Nakamura Title: Bezahltes Dating: Die Darstellung von enjo kōsai in japanischen Zeitschriften oder Die Skandalisierung eines Phänomens Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 211-233 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:211-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826864_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrike Pickardt Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike Author-X-Name-Last: Pickardt Title: „Nikutai koso, subete da.” Nikutai bungaku und die Entdeckung des Körpers im Japan der frühen Nachkriegszeit Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 235-264 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826864 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826864 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:235-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826865_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Asa-Bettina Wuthenow Author-X-Name-First: Asa-Bettina Author-X-Name-Last: Wuthenow Title: Pro und Kontra in der Übersetzungskritik Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 265-276 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2000 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2000.11826865 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2000.11826865 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:11:y:2000:i:1:p:265-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826866_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicola Liscutin Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Liscutin Author-Name: René Haak Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Haak Title: Zwischen Burger und Sushi—Essen und Ernährung im modernen Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 21-44 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:21-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826867_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katarzyna J. Cwiertka Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cwiertka Title: From Yokohama to Amsterdam: Meidi-ya and Dietary Change in Modern Japan Abstract: In this paper I will focus on the early history of Meidi-ya, a leading shipping and trading company in modern Japan that specialized in merchandizing luxury Western foods and liquors. Established in 1885, Meidi-ya provided an important means for the spread of Western food culture among the Japanese upper and upper-middle classes, and played a pioneering role in introducing modern promotional strategies to Japanese retailing business. From around the turn of the century, the company expanded its role from that of an importer of foreign products to that of a retailer of domestically produced foods. A few years later, it also became involved in food processing. By entering these new domains, Meidi-ya began to play an increasingly important role in the domestication of Western food in Japan.By analyzing Meidi-ya's marketing strategies, I will elucidate its role in the introduction and popularization of Western food in Japan, and the modernization of Japanese retailing and food processing. However, my aim is not to focus solely and simply on food. By examining changing consumption habits and the various socioeconomic processes involved, I will also discuss the role of enterprises like Meidi-ya in producing new class identities and status sensibilities in Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 45-63 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826867 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826867 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:45-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826868_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Hintereder-Emde Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Hintereder-Emde Title: Erkenntnis geht durch den Magen Abstract: The beginnings of the present-day nutritional life-style of Japan lie in the Meiji period, when Western foodstuff, cuisine, and dietary habits were imported. Natsume Sôseki's first novel Wagahai wa neko de aru (English: I am a cat) offers much material on the early encounter of Eastern with Western cuisines in the process of Japan's modernization. But Sôseki's novel does more than just describing this encounter: Food and eating as a cultural system constituted by, as well as constructing fields of meaning and their symbolic representations becomes one of the main vehicles in the novel to negotiate the complex changes which modernisation entailed.Thus, sôseki uses food and eating in this novel as one example to consider the different concepts of the relationship between body and spirit, individual and society, or tradition and modernity. He goes on to show how these diverging, and at times contradictory ideas affected a reconceptualisation of the body (e.g. in terms of diet, hygiene, or medicine) as well as a restructuring of daily activities. Food as relationship is also employed to elucidate issues of power, whether it is interpersonal or imperial/political.Focusing on the example of food in I am a cat, this paper investigates Sôseki's engagement with, and critique of altered power relations, changing forms of perception and theories of cognition in Meiji-period Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 65-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:65-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826869_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aoyama Tomoko Author-X-Name-First: Aoyama Author-X-Name-Last: Tomoko Title: Literary Daughters' Recipes Abstract: This essay examines the representations of food, cooking, and taste in the writings of Mori Mari and Kôda Aya. The critical attention these two writers have received derives mainly from their status as “literary daughters” of canonical writer-fathers. This essay, however, shifts the focus to investigate a neglected area of their writing, their evocation and exploration of female subjectivity, which is effected through a delineation of a relationship with a father in texts to do with food. Food may be represented as a token of the generosity and refinement of the parents, or as a source of domestic and/or social conflict. Cooking may be represented as a means toward aesthetic and ethical enlightenment, as a burden and chore forced on women, or as a contribution toward domestic and social harmony. The daughters' texts reveal how, through writing, they coped with the spell of the dead father. Mori Mari developed her principle of “luxurious poverty” and constructed a unique love story of a “carnivorous” girl and her father. Kôda Aya mastered fine techniques that allowed her to apply to her writing what she learned from “cooking lessons.” Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 91-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:91-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826870_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katja Schmidtpott Author-X-Name-First: Katja Author-X-Name-Last: Schmidtpott Title: Heilmittel, Genussmittel, Erfrischungsgetränk Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 117-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:117-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826871_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Birgit Quitterer Author-X-Name-First: Birgit Author-X-Name-Last: Quitterer Title: Die Esskultur als Spiegelbild japanischer Lebensrhythmen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 157-182 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:157-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826872_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stephan Köhn Author-X-Name-First: Stephan Author-X-Name-Last: Köhn Title: Gourmetcomics in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 183-209 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826872 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826872 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:183-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826873_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Raymond A. Jussaume Author-X-Name-First: Raymond A. Author-X-Name-Last: Jussaume Author-Name: Hisano Shûji Author-X-Name-First: Hisano Author-X-Name-Last: Shûji Author-Name: Taniguchi Yoshimitsu Author-X-Name-First: Taniguchi Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshimitsu Title: Food Safety in Modern Japan Abstract: This paper will investigate the latter issue through an analysis of food safety in modern Japan. The importance of food safety to many Japanese consumers is reflected in the growth of organic food production, the success of the Japanese consumer cooperative movement over the past 20 years, and the “greening” of the marketing strategies of many food firms. We will begin with a review of historical concerns about food supply and the relationship between diet and health. We then demonstrate the extent to which food safety concerns have become widespread amongst Japanese consumers and how food safety concerns are a logical outgrowth of historical concerns about food security and health. These findings are then reviewed within the context of theories of contemporary Japanese social change. Our argument is that consumer concern over food safety reflects the cultural value placed on eating and health, is unlikely to dissipate in the foreseeable future, and that the emergence into the mainstream of food safety concerns presents challenges to Japanese social movements promoting alternative food systems. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 211-228 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826873 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826873 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:211-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826874_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ann D. Brucklacher Author-X-Name-First: Ann D. Author-X-Name-Last: Brucklacher Title: Facing Globalisation: Japanese Farmers' Responses to Changing Markets Abstract: Internationalization has brought changes to the types of food eaten by Japanese people, and changes too to the types of produce grown by Japanese farmers. This paper examines changes in Japanese agriculture, looking at the various ways in which farmers are responding to and negotiating with the pressures of international and domestic food demands. Some farmers have turned to growing specialty crops, various agricultural goods with name value and organic produce, while others are experimenting with direct marketing and agricultural tourism. I focus in particular on the rise of specialty regional foods, with a description of various marketing and promotion practices. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 229-247 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826874 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826874 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:229-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826875_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hanns Günther Hilpert Author-X-Name-First: Hanns Günther Author-X-Name-Last: Hilpert Title: Japans Agrarimport—ein Überblick Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 249-282 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11826875 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11826875 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:249-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11827251_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Timothy Iles Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Iles Title: Tampopo: Food and the Postmodern in the Work of Itami Jûzô Abstract: Itami Jûzô's film Tampopo possesses a structure and thematic richness that make it a prime example of postmodern film-making. Its use of food as visual metaphor and narrative device works together with its structure to privilege a decentred approach to plot, character, and story-telling. At the same time, the film's subject matter and the series of vignettes which interfere with—while equally creating—its narrative flow reflect a cultural cosmopolitanism common in Japan by the time of the film's production. This paper will argue that Tampopo can be read as a rebuttal of certain political attitudes that seek to present Japan as culturally homogeneous, socially stable, and ethnically unified. The film achieves this objective by offering a theoretically aware vision of Japan as composed of infinite and equal fragments held together only by convention, a vision of Japan as postmodern. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 283-297 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2001 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2001.11827251 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2001.11827251 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:12:y:2001:i:1:p:283-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826888_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ines Günther Author-X-Name-First: Ines Author-X-Name-Last: Günther Author-Name: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Author-X-Name-First: Irmela Author-X-Name-Last: Hijiya-Kirschnereit Author-Name: Matthias Koch Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Koch Title: Japan als Fallbeispiel in den Wissenschaften—Eine Einführung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 17-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:17-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826889_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Johann P. Arnason Author-X-Name-First: Johann P. Author-X-Name-Last: Arnason Title: Is Japan a Civilization Sui Generis? Abstract: The question to be considered is a twofold one: can we speak of Japan as a civilization among others, and if so, must we allow for specific features that set it apart from more typical cases? A brief survey of alternative approaches to civilizational theory serves to clarify the conceptual background to both issues. The starting point most suitable to present purposes can be found in the writings of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss: they refer to civilizations as families of societies, but Mauss also hints at the possibility of societies “singularizing themselves” within a broader civilizational field, and thus developing into autonomous variants of a shared civilizational pattern. This model seems applicable to the relationship between China and Japan. A Chinese civilizational framework prevailed throughout the East Asian region, but the Japanese version of it was distinctive enough to be regarded as a civilization sui generis. Cultural and political models of order were central to the Chinese traditions that spread to the rest of the region; they underwent a more significant adaptive change in Japan than elsewhere. On the Japanese side, the seventh-century transformation—which involved a mutual adjustment of imported models and indigenous traditions—gave rise to a framework within which further variations on Chinese themes could take place. This historical experience left a legacy that was to prove crucial to the accelerated modern transformation after 1968.1 Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 43-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:43-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826890_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Raymond Grew Author-X-Name-First: Raymond Author-X-Name-Last: Grew Title: Comparing Modern Japan: Are There More Comparisons to Make? Abstract: Comparison with other societies is such an ingrained part of the study of Japan that there is reason to ask whether in the future that habit will die out, continue as before, or take new directions. This essay suggests reasons for expecting new uses of comparison. Scholars interested in such current issues as globalization, state making, the social position of women and minorities, and mass culture will be stimulated to look to Japan's record of adaptation and Japan's regional and international influence, making comparisons that start with the Japanese example. Contemporary theoretical work in the social sciences will lead to new comparative questions, focusing on carefully formulated problems. Topics flourishing in work on other societies, including Foucauldian issues of power, gender studies, colonial encounters, and the uses of memory will lead to new investigations of Japanese society and history. At the same time, the familiar topics of comparison in Japanese studies, such as elite formation, religion, and institutions, are likely to take on new life. As an example of some of these possibilities, the essay concludes by comparing the modern histories of Japan and Italy. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 69-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:69-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826891_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sven Saaler Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Saaler Title: Japan in der internationalen Militarismusforschung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 103-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826891 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826891 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:103-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826892_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul Kevenhörster Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kevenhörster Title: Japan: Politische Entscheidungsstrukturen im Spiegel politikwissenschaftlicher Deutungen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 139-164 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826892 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826892 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:139-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826893_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wernhard Möschel Author-X-Name-First: Wernhard Author-X-Name-Last: Möschel Title: Japanisches Kartellrecht—von aussen gesehen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 165-177 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826893 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826893 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:165-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826894_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Japan als Gegenst and komparativer Analysen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, dargestellt am Thema „Corporate Governance” Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 179-202 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826894 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826894 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:179-202 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826895_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian Schröppel Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Schröppel Author-Name: Nakajima Mariko Author-X-Name-First: Nakajima Author-X-Name-Last: Mariko Title: The Changing Interpretation of the Flying Geese Model of Economic Development Abstract: The flying geese model, a theory of industrial development in latecomer economies, was developed in the 1930s by the Japanese economist Akamatsu Kaname (1896–1974). While rarely known in western countries, it is highly prominent in Japan and seen as the main economic theory underlying Japan's economic assistance to developing countries.Akamatsu's original interpretation of the flying geese model differs fundamentally from theories of western origin, such as the neoclassical model and Raymond Vernon's product cycle theory. These differences include the roles of factors and linkages in economic development, the effects of demand and supply, as well as the dynamic and dialectical character of Akamatsu's thinking.Later reformulations of the flying geese model, pioneered by Kojima Kiyoshi, attempt to combine aspects of Akamatsu's theory with neoclassical thinking. This can be described as the “westernization” of the flying geese model. It is this reformulated interpretation that has become popular in Japan's political discourse, a process that might be explained by the change in Japan's perspective from that of a developing to that of an advanced economy.The position taken by Japan in its recent controversy with the World Bank, however, shows that many basic elements of Akamatsu's thinking are still highly influential within both Japan's academia and its government and are therefore relevant for understanding current debates on development theory. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 203-236 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826895 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826895 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:203-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826896_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mae Michiko Author-X-Name-First: Mae Author-X-Name-Last: Michiko Title: Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit im japanischen Modernisierungsprozess Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 237-266 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:237-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826897_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Götz Wienold Author-X-Name-First: Götz Author-X-Name-Last: Wienold Title: Linguistische Typologie und Japanisch Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 267-285 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:267-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826898_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Janet A. Walker Author-X-Name-First: Janet A. Author-X-Name-Last: Walker Title: The Uniqueness of the Japanese Novel and Its Contribution to the Theory of the Novel Abstract: The Japanese novel has been viewed either as derivative of the Western novel or as a uniquely indigenous form with little or no relationship to the Western novel. In this paper I view it as both a unique Japanese form and as part of a global current of subjective fiction linked to modernization and expressing the ideal of the modern self. As the representative Japanese form of the novel I choose the shishōsetsu (I-novel, fiction of the self), which emerged around 1907 and dominated Japanese critical discourse until the 1960s. In the paper I juxtapose the Japanese novel with three versions of the European novel with the goal of ascertaining the differences between the Japanese and the European novel and arriving at a sense of the unique features of the Japanese novel. These are the roman personnel of the Romantic period, the realist novel, and the modernist novel. The shishōsetsu turns out to demonstrate some similarities with the Romantic subjective novel and also with the modernist novel. an emphasis on subjectivity in the context of different stages of modernity. It thwarts the expectations of the European realist novel, the standard novel form during much of the twentieth century and the one to which it was most often compared, in its avoidance of a depiction of society, its lyricism, and its preference for subjectivity and sincerity. As a form insisting on a radical lyricism and subjectivity, it reflects Japan's position as a modern nation that was simultaneously on the periphery in relation to Europe and part of the center of political power. It is a unique novel form which together with a body of theoretical writings provides an alternative form and theory of the novel. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 287-310 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826898 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826898 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:287-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826899_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Harald Meyer Author-X-Name-First: Harald Author-X-Name-Last: Meyer Title: Pioneer of “Taishō Democracy”: Abe Isoo's Social Democratic Idealism and Japanese Concepts of Democracy from 1900 to 1920 Abstract: Japanese research about so-called Taishō Democracy can be classified into three study fields: party politics and political movements (“political democracy”), social movements (“social democracy”), and movements of intellectuals (“intellectual democracy”). Especially within the field of “intellectual democracy” there is still a lack of research in Japan concerning the selection and analysis of sources. Relevant materials like Abe Isoo's writing Chijō no risōkoku—Suisu (Ideal state on Earth—Switzerland) have not yet been taken into account by Japanese historians. What were the fundamental ideas and conceptions of democracy in prewar Japan? The starting point for answering that question should be an analysis of Japanese definitions of the Western term “democracy.” During the Taishō period, quite a number of translations for “democracy,” such as minponshugi, heiminshugi, and minseishugi were in use. Astonishingly, there is no Japanese research so far exploring the origin and usage of those translations. The aim of this paper is not only to introduce Abe's work, which was overlooked by historians until now, but also to give insight into the etymological and historical origins of the various translations of “democracy” in use during the late Meiji and the Taishō eras. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 313-327 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2003 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2003.11826899 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2003.11826899 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:14:y:2003:i:1:p:313-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826900_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Harald Dolles Author-X-Name-First: Harald Author-X-Name-Last: Dolles Author-Name: Isa Ducke Author-X-Name-First: Isa Author-X-Name-Last: Ducke Title: Missverständnisse in der Begegnung mit Japan—Eine Hinführung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 17-35 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826900 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826900 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:17-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826901_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klaus Vollmer Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Vollmer Title: Missverständnis und Methode Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 37-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:37-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826902_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexis Dudden Author-X-Name-First: Alexis Author-X-Name-Last: Dudden Title: Alternative Understandings of Power in Meiji Japan Abstract: Unlike building railroads, writing treaties and conducting diplomacy was by no means a new practice in Meiji Japan (1868–1912). Performing these transactions in the terms of international law, however, required new techniques to control the discourse. The scholars and state aggrandizers who translated international law into Japanese at the time did not cause Japan to become the imperialist nation it did. Their fluent use of this discourse, however, legitimated Japan's imperialist claims within Japan and abroad. Although international terms empowered the powerful, the potential meaning of many of the terms inspired those trying to resist domination. For the architects of the Japanese empire, however, controlling Japanese sovereignty meant controlling the legal terms of governance wherever Japan ruled. The permitted discourse of legitimate Japan circumscribed expression throughout the geographical boundaries to which the new regime aspired. Techniques of control included obvious means such as banning books, but on a deeper level it meant negating definitions that challenged how Japan constituted its sovereignty within Japan and abroad. Following Pierre Bourdieu's discussion of the “metaphor of censorship,” I will demonstrate how the few people who challenged the discursive range that the state determined to use contested what most of society—at home and abroad—simply presumed to be a normatively defined legal terminology. Japan did not officially annex Korea until 1910, but it vied most doggedly there with other nations throughout the late nineteenth century over strategic privileges, mining and railroad rights, and souls to proselytize. For these reasons, Japanese officials realized the need to make Japan's Korea policies make international sense more acutely at the time than the country's other colonial schemes in order to engage in that competition with the Europeans and Americans. Within Japan's expanding empire the annexation of Korea most significantly established the perceived legitimacy of Japan as a modern imperial nation. Dissenting voices from mainland Japan as well as colonized Korea, however, tried to subvert how the new international terms were understood and used, and my essay will consider two examples. In the 1870s, Tarui Tōkichi, a poor and unsuccessful politician from Nara, envisioned a new nation he called “Great East” (Daitō) by blending Japan and Korea together. The Meiji government censored Tarui's plan until it effected its own version of “Daito” whereupon it celebrated Tarui and his book for its foresight. In 1908, a Korean high court justice named Heo Wi demanded that the world recognize his anti-Japanese rebellion (the Uibyeong) as a legitimate war according to international law. The international arena ignored his appeal, and he was tortured to death in a Japanese prison in Seoul. Alternate definitions of international terms were deemed inadmissible or illegal vis-à-vis the state's encoded limits for them, erasing the proposed meanings and often the people themselves from the record of legitimate Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 69-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826902 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826902 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:69-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826903_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xavier Guillaume Author-X-Name-First: Xavier Author-X-Name-Last: Guillaume Title: Misdirected Understandings Abstract: This article aims to understand how the politics of alterity in Japan led to a misdirected understanding of the West during the early Tokugawa period and the interwar periods. By means of two specific narrative matrices shinkoku [land of the gods] and kokutai [national polity essence], conceptual frameworks that operate with powerful begetting capabilities, it is shown how parallel structurations are at work in two distinct, but decisive, confrontations with the West. Shinkoku and kokutai discourses were specific self-understandings/representations promoted by ruling elites, which combined internal and external elements, and which developed the notion of a group and a related process of identification. originating in medieval times, the shinkoku discourse was used during the early modern period to confront alternative self-understandings/representations, perceived as seditious and pernicious; in particular, christianity. Within the country, shinkoku discourse contributed to the design of the Tokugawa's knowledge and moral spaces, in which a Japanese national identity was to be situated. The kokutai discourse, although essentially “spiritual” in the first half of the nineteenth century, rapidly became the same kind of knowledge and moral-spaces marker as the shinkoku discourse. This became more evident and dramatic during the Showa era when kokutai became a legal tool, in the 1925 Peace Preservation Law, to counter the perceived threat of what was described as either modanizumu [modernism] or Amerikanizumu [Americanism]. By means of these two narrative matrices, it will be shown that the constant aim of the Japanese ruling elites was to develop and implement a politics of alterity. The aim was therefore to unify, homogenize and naturalize a specific self-understanding/representation for the Japanese people that eradicated diversity and difference. Thus, orthodoxy and normalcy in Japan should be seen as misdirected understandings of the West, aimed at constructing a Japanese national identity. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 85-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:85-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826904_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rotem Kowner Author-X-Name-First: Rotem Author-X-Name-Last: Kowner Title: Japanese Miscommunication with Foreigners Abstract: Numerous personal accounts, anecdotal stories, and surveys suggest that for many Japanese communication with foreigners is a difficult and even unpleasant experience. This intercultural miscommunication, which seems to characterize Japanese more than their foreign counterparts, has attracted the attention of scholars, both in Japan and overseas. In fact, ever since the forced opening of Japan 150 years ago, scholars and laymen have advanced explicit and implicit theories to account for the presumed Japanese “foreigner complex” and its effect on Japanese intercultural communication. These theories focus on Japan's geographical and historical isolation, linguistic barriers, idiosyncratic communication style, and the interpersonal shyness of its people. While there is a certain kernel of truth in many of the hypotheses proposed, they tend to exaggerate cultural differences and stress marginal aspects. This article seeks to review critically the different views of Japanese communication difficulties with foreigners, and to advance complementary hypotheses based on recent studies. it also attempts to examine the implications of this miscommunication and to consider several options to alleviate it. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 117-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:117-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826905_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Kreitz-Sandberg Title: Missverstehen—reflektieren—unterscheiden—erkennen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 153-197 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:153-197 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826906_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alois Moosmüller Author-X-Name-First: Alois Author-X-Name-Last: Moosmüller Title: Interkulturelle Routinen in deutschen und amerikanischen Unternehmen in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 199-218 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:199-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826907_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cornelia Storz Author-X-Name-First: Cornelia Author-X-Name-Last: Storz Title: Globalisierung, Technik, Normen—Warum weichen japanische Unternehmen von internationalen Normen ab? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 219-246 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:219-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826908_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Title: Japans Begegnung mit Okinawa Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 249-279 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826908 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826908 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:249-279 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826909_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Clemens Philippi Author-X-Name-First: Clemens Author-X-Name-Last: Philippi Title: Between “Washington Consensus” and “Asian Way” Abstract: Numerous contemporary analyses in the field of international relations have been focusing on the discourses of political-intellectual elites within a state in order to understand and explain foreign policy making. The underlying assumption of those so-called constructivist studies holds that national interests and foreign policies are determined by socially constructed national identities.The Japanese nation offers a fine example of such constructivist reasoning. In fact, Japan's political-intellectual elites have ever since the days of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) engaged in a vigorous discourse on whether Japan belongs—spiritually, economically and politically—to the Eastern or Western hemisphere. Participants in this dispute have attempted to shape Japan's identity along their idealized vision and pushed the country in one of both directions—or opted for a deliberate middle way.By scrutinizing a sample of newspaper commentaries, this article follows the Japanese debate on national identity in the context of the East Asian financial and economic crisis of 1997/1998 which illustrated and extrapolated Japan's East-West dichotomy in a special way. The newspaper authors' notion of national identity and their subsequent quests for political action will be presented and grouped with the goal of identifying potential implications for Japanese foreign policy making. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 281-314 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2004 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2004.11826909 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2004.11826909 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:15:y:2004:i:1:p:281-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826910_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Germer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Germer Title: Grenzgänge—Zur (De-)Konstruktion sozialer Gruppen und kollektiver Identitäten in Japan. Eine Hinleitung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 11-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:11-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826911_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ryoko Yamamoto Author-X-Name-First: Ryoko Author-X-Name-Last: Yamamoto Title: Alien Attack? Abstract: The rapid growth of labor migration in the last few decades has presented a direct challenge to the myth of Japanese homogeneity. As the visibility of foreign national residents has increased, crimes by foreigners have come to be spotlighted as a significant social problem in Japan. This paper argues that the discourse of foreign criminality, which is increasingly prominent in contemporary Japan, is better understood as a political construction of foreign “others” within, rather than as a response to an actual high crime rate for foreign nationals. This discourse portrays foreign nationals as international predators feeding on Japanese prey, while in turn enforcing the image of Japan as an originally safe, crime-free country. In this picture, immigration policies are framed as a security issue, and strict immigration control and close surveillance of foreign national residents are promoted as measures of crime prevention. Foreign criminality discourse has utilized crime statistics to assert the high crime risk of foreigners. Careful examination of these statistics, however, reveals discrepancies between discourse and data. Two social factors may deserve special attention as pertinent contexts for the emergence of foreign criminality discourse: 1) predicted population decline and subsequent dependence on migrant labor; and 2) public expectation for a strong political leadership in the height of social anxiety. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 27-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:27-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826912_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulrike Wöhr Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike Author-X-Name-Last: Wöhr Title: A Touchstone for Transnational Feminism: Discourses on the Comfort Women in 1990s Japan Abstract: This article reconstructs feminist discourses that evolved in Japan in the 1990s, with a focus on the differences as well as the overlappings of so-called “minority” and “majority” positions, and within the context of transnational feminist developments in Asia and beyond. The “turn towards Asia” that characterized Japanese politics, media and academia during the 1990s also occurred within feminist movements and among feminist academics in Japan. It was the history of Asian women who were forced to serve as “comfort women” for the Japanese military that sparked the new feminist interest in Japan's past as an aggressive invador and colonial power in Asia, and in the relationship between Japanese women and other Asian women. This article focuses on a controversy about the comfort women that evolved between two feminist academics, one of them belonging to the Japanese majority, the other one being a Korean resident of Japan. This controversy highlighted the tensions existing between majority and minority feminists in Japan, that is, between a concentration on gender, on the one side, and an insistence on ethnicity, on the other. However, the analysis carried out in this article suggests that these seemingly opposite standpoints converge in their basic understanding of the self and of feminist politics, and points to the importance and viability of feminist discourses and coalitions across ethnic boundaries. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 59-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:59-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826913_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eric Ishiwata Author-X-Name-First: Eric Author-X-Name-Last: Ishiwata Title: Re-made in Japan: Nikkeijin Disruptions of Japan's Ethno-Spatial Boundaries Abstract: Working to envisage a more hospitable Japan—one that can responsibly accommodate difference through acts of tolerance, plurality, and non-violence—this paper seeks to reformulate the nation's ethno-spatial hierarchy. By interjecting Deleuze and Guattari's “minoritarian” position into the majority/minority dialectic, a move instantiated by the incommensurability of Japan's Nikkeijin populations (i.e. neither resolutely “foreign” nor essentially “native”), this paper works to loosen the ubiquitous uchi/soto (“inside/outside”) distinction in a manner that moves beyond the barriers typically encountered by conventional approaches to Japan's minority issues. Insofar as the investigation is advanced through a series of engagements from a variety of genres—SMAP's 2003 “MIJ” advertising campaign, Kurosawa Akira's 1991 film Rhapsody in August, and NHK's 2002 asadora (“morning serialized drama”) Sakura—the analysis will not only demonstrate how popular fictions participate in the dramaticization of the nation's ethno-spatial boundaries, it will also afford new ways of thinking about and interceding in Japan's so-called immigration “problem.” Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 91-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:91-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826914_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: James Welker Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Welker Title: Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community Abstract: This paper explores queer Japanese women's narratives of their own histories and the history of the “Japanese lesbian community,” which has been constructed as a space outside the heterosexual mainstream, a space where queer women can find at least temporary refuge. It begins with the acknowledgement that the evolution and the shape of the community, along with the identities of the women who comprise it, are shifting and contested. This paper specifically looks at the long history of the lesbian bar scene as well as more recent history of lesbian dance parties; the early role of lesbian feminism and activism; lesbian community-based and commercial publications, paying special attention to the critical role translation has played in Japanese lesbian discourse and the construction of multiple lesbian identities; and, finally, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride events and film festivals, through which the larger LGBT community has been gaining increasing visibility. This paper argues that while some of the building blocks of the community are borrowed, from the “West” as well as from the Japanese gay community, there has also been creative translation, adaptation and resistance to these imports. The resulting Japanese lesbian community is a complex and local construct, an innovative bricolage firmly sited in Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 119-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826914 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826914 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:119-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826915_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Akemi Nakamura Author-X-Name-First: Akemi Author-X-Name-Last: Nakamura Title: “We are all ‘Residents of Japan’”: The Construction of Common Identity and the Success of the Anti-fingerprinting Movement Abstract: The anti-fingerprinting movement in the 1980s was the first movement of zainichi Koreans in Japan that achieved both its goal and support from Japanese. Considering the movement as a result of the acceptance by Japanese of Koreans' claim of their being the same “residents of Japan” as Japanese are, this paper analyzes how this acceptance was achieved, based on interview data. Particular focus is given to interpretations of structural factors by four movement actors: the Japanese state, Koreans, Korean ethnic organizations, and Japanese. This paper discusses how the Koreans' separation from ethnic organizations and the Japanese' questioning of undemocratic behavior of their own state removed the “cage of nationalism” that had divided the two. It concludes that it was this separation from the state that made the anti-fingerprinting movement one of “residents of Japan,” which was characterized by a collaboration between two groups whose national and ethnic boundaries were blurred. By describing the anti-fingerprinting movement as a “failure” from the “new” social movement point of view while being a “success” as an “old” social movement, this paper also suggests the limitation of distinction between the “old” and the “new” based on different roles of identity. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 145-165 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826915 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826915 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:145-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826916_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sven Saaler Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Saaler Title: Historische Ansätze von Gruppendefinitionen im modernen Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 167-199 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826916 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826916 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:167-199 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826917_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isa Ducke Author-X-Name-First: Isa Author-X-Name-Last: Ducke Author-Name: Natascha Thoma Author-X-Name-First: Natascha Author-X-Name-Last: Thoma Title: Chiiki tsūka—eine Währung für die Community? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 201-236 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826917 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826917 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:201-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826918_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert F. Wittkamp Author-X-Name-First: Robert F. Author-X-Name-Last: Wittkamp Title: Konstruktivismus, Wahrnehmung und Gedächtnis Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 239-256 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826918 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826918 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:239-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826919_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Simone Müller Author-X-Name-First: Simone Author-X-Name-Last: Müller Title: Die Konstruktion der träumenden Frau oder weshalb es in Japan „nur” Traumdichterinnen gibt Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 257-278 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826919 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826919 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:257-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826920_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrick Heinrich Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrich Title: „Die beste und schönste Sprache der Welt” Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 279-305 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:279-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826921_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klaus Gottheiner Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Gottheiner Author-Name: Stephan Köhn Author-X-Name-First: Stephan Author-X-Name-Last: Köhn Author-Name: Ursula Flache Author-X-Name-First: Ursula Author-X-Name-Last: Flache Author-Name: Isa Ducke Author-X-Name-First: Isa Author-X-Name-Last: Ducke Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 309-332 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2005 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2005.11826921 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2005.11826921 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:16:y:2005:i:1:p:309-332 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826922_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Annette Schad-Seifert Author-X-Name-First: Annette Author-X-Name-Last: Schad-Seifert Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Title: Deutschland in Japan—Zwischen von Siebold und der Maus Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 13-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826922 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826922 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:13-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826923_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edgar Franz Author-X-Name-First: Edgar Author-X-Name-Last: Franz Title: Deutsche Mediziner in Japan—ein Beitrag zum Wissenstransfer in der Edo-Zeit Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 31-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:31-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826924_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Urs Matthias Zachmann Author-X-Name-First: Urs Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Zachmann Title: Imperialism in a Nutshell: Conflict and the “Concert of Powers” in the Tripartite Intervention, 1895 Abstract: Shortly after the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China (the so-called Tripartite intervention). The event had an immense impact on Japanese public opinion and considerable consequences for Japan's future course in international politics. However, the question still remains why Japanese decision-makers of the time did not foresee such an intervention, or if they did, why they thought they could resist. The present study tries to answer the question by reconstructing the knowledge upon which the Japanese leaders acted, and so understand their decisions as the rational application of rules that prevailed in those times of late high imperialism. The study argues that the Tripartite intervention was a constellation of conflict and consensual action typical to international power politics. Judging by what the Japanese leaders knew or could know of the constellation, their calculations might have been correct. However, a series of events that would have been hard to predict even for Western observers—especially the accession of Germany to the Russian plans for intervention—proved fatal to Japan's hopes of overcoming a possible intervention. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 57-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826924 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826924 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:57-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826925_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Harald Fuess Author-X-Name-First: Harald Author-X-Name-Last: Fuess Title: Deutsche Jesuiten in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 83-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:83-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826926_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Moerke Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Moerke Title: Schlagwort „Nicklisch”—zur Repräsentanz eines deutschen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlers in japanischen Nachschlagewerken Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 109-131 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:109-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826927_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Heinrich Menkhaus Author-X-Name-First: Heinrich Author-X-Name-Last: Menkhaus Author-Name: Koresuke Yamauchi Author-X-Name-First: Koresuke Author-X-Name-Last: Yamauchi Title: Die japanische Beschäftigung mit dem deutschen Rechtswesen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 133-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826927 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826927 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:133-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826928_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Matthew Penney Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Penney Title: Rising Sun, Iron Cross—Military Germany in Japanese Popular Culture Abstract: Diverse depictions of the WWII German army exist in Japanese popular culture. This essay will explore the origins of the Japanese fandom devoted to German military technology and also the way that authors have (re)produced stereotypes related to German culture and traditions in their portrayals of wartime Germany. Finally, using examples by authors Tezuka Osamu and Aramaki Yoshio, this essay will identify the representation of both Japanese and German war crimes in Japanese manga and popular fiction as a significant discursive trend that calls into question assumptions about anti-war thought in contemporary Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 165-187 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826928 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826928 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:165-187 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826929_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefanie Nartschik Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie Author-X-Name-Last: Nartschik Title: Gutenberg in Tokio Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 189-208 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826929 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826929 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:189-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826930_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isa Ducke Author-X-Name-First: Isa Author-X-Name-Last: Ducke Title: Deutschland als Vorbild im japanischen Umweltdiskurs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 209-241 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826930 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826930 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:209-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826931_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert F. Wittkamp Author-X-Name-First: Robert F. Author-X-Name-Last: Wittkamp Title: Cultural Turn in der Literaturtheorie? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 245-269 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826931 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826931 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:245-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826932_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Wolfgang Schwentker Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Schwentker Author-Name: Kimae Toshiaki Author-X-Name-First: Kimae Author-X-Name-Last: Toshiaki Title: Max Webers Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus nach 100 Jahren—Perspektiven der Sozialwissenschaften in Ostasien Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 271-277 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826932 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826932 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:271-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826933_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Wachutka Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Wachutka Author-Name: Andrea Germer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Germer Author-Name: Florian Coulmas Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Coulmas Author-Name: Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Kreitz-Sandberg Author-Name: Winfried Flüchter Author-X-Name-First: Winfried Author-X-Name-Last: Flüchter Author-Name: Roman Ditzer Author-X-Name-First: Roman Author-X-Name-Last: Ditzer Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 281-310 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826933 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826933 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:281-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826934_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren des Jahrbuchs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 311-317 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2006 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2006.11826934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2006.11826934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:17:y:2006:i:1:p:311-317 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826935_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: René Haak Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Haak Title: Vorwort Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 9-11 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:9-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826936_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: René Haak Author-X-Name-First: René Author-X-Name-Last: Haak Author-Name: Ulrike Maria Haak Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Haak Title: Arbeitswelten in Japan: Werte im Wandel, Strukturen im Umbruch Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 15-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:15-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826937_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Chiavacci Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Chiavacci Title: „Schwarze Schiffe” in der japanischen Arbeitswelt Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 27-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826937 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826937 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:27-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826938_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aya Ezawa Author-X-Name-First: Aya Author-X-Name-Last: Ezawa Title: How Japanese single Mothers Work Abstract: Welfare support for single mothers in Japan has been subject to significant restructuring in the recent years. Whereas single mothers had received support in the form of the dependent children's allowance (jidō fuyō teate) in the past, reforms introduced in 2003 have aimed instead to promote single mothers' employment and make them independent from state assistance. This paper examines the working conditions of single mothers in Japan and explores the barriers they face in making this move ‘from welfare to work.’ Given that only few married mothers in Japan work, how do single mothers manage to balance childcare with earning a living wage? Based on statistical data and life history interviews, I investigate the problems single mothers face in balancing their children's needs with the demands of work. In examining their work histories, I highlight the role of qualifications, employment in specific job sectors, as well as the impact of motherhood on single mothers' long-term work trajectories and income. Their experience contributes not only to an understanding of the challenges of being a single parent but also of the constraints women in general face in pursuing a career and becoming economically independent from husbands, families and the state. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 59-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:59-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826939_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mayumi Nakamura Author-X-Name-First: Mayumi Author-X-Name-Last: Nakamura Title: The Female-dominated Path and Attainment of Marital Status for Japanese Women Abstract: Why do many Japanese women choose female-dominated occupations, even though it is generally believed that they lead to dead-end careers? In this article, I posit that under the conditions of existing discrimination by employers and structural barriers, many Japanese women are investing in this “feminine path” (non-career clerical or assistant roles in large companies) which endows women (or so they believe) with certain advantages in acquiring status through marriage (“attainment of marital status”). I call this “feminine capital”, and it is one reason why women choose these paths.1 I argue that these feminine paths can benefit them in attaining marital status more than gender-neutral occupations, especially when women are not capable of pursuing highly selective gender-neutral occupations.2 Feminine occupations are considered to have benefits when compared to gender-neutral occupations, mainly because they have advantages in cultural capital and social capital. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 85-110 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826939 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826939 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:85-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826940_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jeannette Behaghel Author-X-Name-First: Jeannette Author-X-Name-Last: Behaghel Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Title: Arbeitsmigration nach Japan: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, politischer Diskurs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 111-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826940 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826940 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:111-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826941_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Matanle Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Matanle Title: Organic Sources for the Revitalization of Rural Japan Abstract: The population and society of Sado Island are declining at an alarming rate. Much of this decline has been due to endemic outward migration of the island's younger people to Japan's large urban areas in search of opportunities for tertiary education and salaried employment. Even though opportunities to find work in Sado do exist, these are in occupations that younger people currently find unattractive. Moreover, education in Sado currently does not serve local circumstances and needs well, being organised primarily by and for the urban centre. This research starts by presenting an overview of the issues surrounding population, education, and employment on Sado, and then moves to presenting a case study of the life and work of Sado Island's craft-potters. The article uses statistical data from official bodies and unstructured interviews with the island's residents as empirical support for its theoretical discussions. The article concludes by hinting at a possible stabilization of the population through a combination of educational reform, craft-based employment re-generation, and taking advantage of emerging trends in world tourism. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 149-180 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:149-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826942_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Takahiro Nishiyama Author-X-Name-First: Takahiro Author-X-Name-Last: Nishiyama Title: Betriebliche Weiterbildung für industrielle Arbeiter in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 181-219 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826942 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826942 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:181-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826943_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Khondaker Mizanur Rahman Author-X-Name-First: Khondaker Mizanur Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman Title: NEETs' Challenge to Japan: Causes and Remedies Abstract: Based on a questionnaire survey and an interview, with additional support from reviews of literature and archival information, this paper examines the underlying causes of the NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) problem in Japan. Those who responded to the survey were senior-grade students from middle schools, high schools, junior college and university, and a group of opinion leaders, who have no direct experience as freeters or NEETs. Findings from the survey suggest that individual personality attributes such as dislike of and inability to adapt to things and situations, over-sensitivity etc. which arise from and are exacerbated by unfavorable family, school, social, and workplace related circumstances, with further negative influences from the economic environment and metamorphic social changes, have given rise to the problem of NEET. The issue has posed a severe challenge to the nation's labor market, and calls for an immediate solution. The paper offers some inductive and deductive suggestions to eradicate the underlying causes of the problem and arrest its further escalation and prevent recurrence. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 221-244 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826943 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826943 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:221-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826944_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gesine Foljanty-Jost Author-X-Name-First: Gesine Author-X-Name-Last: Foljanty-Jost Author-Name: Karoline Haufe Author-X-Name-First: Karoline Author-X-Name-Last: Haufe Title: Bürgerliche Gesellschaft versus Zivilgesellschaft—die neuere Debatte in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 247-269 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826944 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826944 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:247-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826945_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrick Köllner Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Köllner Title: Die Machtposition des japanischen Regierungschefs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 271-301 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826945 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826945 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:271-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826946_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Parissa Haghirian Author-X-Name-First: Parissa Author-X-Name-Last: Haghirian Author-Name: Axel Klein Author-X-Name-First: Axel Author-X-Name-Last: Klein Author-Name: Susanne Klien Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Klien Author-Name: Sven Saaler Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Saaler Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 305-328 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826946 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826946 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:305-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826947_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Jahrbuchs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 329-334 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2007 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2007.11826947 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2007.11826947 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:18:y:2007:i:1:p:329-334 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826948_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Backhaus Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Backhaus Title: Familienangelegenheiten: Ein Überblick Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 13-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826948 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826948 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:13-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826949_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Germer Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Germer Title: Staat, Nation und Familie: Zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und Nationalstaat in Japan, 1918–1945 Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 21-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:21-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826950_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michiko Mae Author-X-Name-First: Michiko Author-X-Name-Last: Mae Author-Name: Julia Schmitz Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Schmitz Title: Zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit: Die moderne Familie in Japan und Deutschland bis 1945 Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 49-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826950 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826950 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:49-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826951_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Momoyo Hüstebeck Author-X-Name-First: Momoyo Author-X-Name-Last: Hüstebeck Title: Die kulturelle Prägung des weiblichen Rollen-verständnisses durch die Instrumentalisierung (neo)konfuzianischer Traditionen in Südkorea und Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 81-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826951 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826951 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:81-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826952_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Annette Schad-Seifert Author-X-Name-First: Annette Author-X-Name-Last: Schad-Seifert Title: Japans Abschied von der Mittelschicht-gesellschaft: Auflösung des Familienhaushalts oder Pluralisierung der Lebensformen? Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 105-128 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826952 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826952 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:105-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826953_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jörg Kruth Author-X-Name-First: Jörg Author-X-Name-Last: Kruth Title: Gedanken über die Zukunft der Familie in Japan—Eine Studie vorehelicher Partnerschaften Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 129-150 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826953 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826953 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:129-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826954_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Diana Adis Tahhan Author-X-Name-First: Diana Adis Author-X-Name-Last: Tahhan Title: Two Plus One Still Equals Two: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Japanese Family Abstract: This article explores family dynamics in Japan as reflected in Japanese sleeping practices. sleep, in a Japanese context, is often associated with co-sleeping (soine) and feelings of skinship [intimacy through touch]. Ethnographic research, undertaken in 2005 in North-East and Western Honshu, indicates that there is an identity logic in certain sleeping practices that incorporates a ‘purposeful tension’, while in others, there is a relational logic in which skinship is manifest. In this article, I explore these states of relationality through kawa no ji [sleeping with the child in between parents]. Empirical evidence derived from participant-observations and interviews provides the basis for understanding two relational states in soine: exclusive and inclusive family relations. in exclusive relations, kawa no ji is used to separate or alienate a member (or members) of a family, while inclusive relations establish a connection and all-encompassing space ‘between the family’ that provide possibilities for skinship. This article offers an understanding of how the space is inhabited ‘between the family’, and how this constrains or allows intimacy. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 151-168 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826954 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826954 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:151-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826955_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Allison Alexy Author-X-Name-First: Allison Author-X-Name-Last: Alexy Title: Deferred Benefits, Romance, and the Specter of Later-Life Divorce Abstract: In this paper, I describe how the threat of rising divorce rates among people near retirement has provoked conversations about ideals and expectations of marital relationships in contemporary Japan. A change in the pension law slated to go into effect in April 2007 enables divorced women to access up to half of their ex-husbands' future pension payments, making divorce more financially feasible for women who have not held full-time jobs. This legal change coincides with the oldest baby-boomers turning sixty and is generally predicted to create a boom in “later-life divorce” (jukunen rikon).In media images and people's conversations, these potential later-life divorces are dramatically gendered. It is commonly suggested that the vast majority will be initiated by women and will leave helpless husbands who are unable to perform basic domestic duties. Based on ethnographic research and participation in support groups, this paper describes reflections on and reconsiderations of marital ideals and family lives during the period immediately before the legal changes. In this analysis, I pay particular attention to media coverage, individual case studies, and the symbolic value of women's work and retirement. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 169-188 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826955 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826955 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:169-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826956_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Timothy Iles Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Iles Title: Families, Fathers, Film: Changing Images from Japanese Cinema Abstract: Two films from roughly 20 years apart, Kazoku gemu (The Family Game, Morita Yoshimitsu, 1983), and Bijitā Q (Visitor Q, Miike Takashi, 2001), present images of the Japanese family and father that work together to create a portrait of the family in crisis. These films, coming at opposite ends of the so-called Bubble Economy, suggest that at root of this crisis is the abdication by the Japanese father of his responsibilities both within the home and within the wider social arena. In short, these films condemn the contemporary “salaryman” as an ineffectual, uncommunicative, and “weak” force within the home, incapable of providing a coherent, inspirational model for his family. This paper will first provide a context in which to read these two films, by analysing the presentation of the family and father in classic post-war films by Ozu, Kurosawa, and Mizoguchi. Against these classic works, this paper will then explore the ways in which the two more recent films cooperate with each other, using satire to criticise the contemporary Japanese family and the apparent “crisis” which faces it, and to show how the perception of this crisis is intensifying. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 189-206 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:189-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826957_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Prieler Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Prieler Title: The Japanese Advertising Family Abstract: This paper deals with the representation of the family in Japanese TV commercials. Based on empirical research conducted in 2004 and 2005, it argues that Japanese commercials tend to depict the family and its members in highly stereotypical ways. Mothers are almost always shown doing some kind of housework, at times supported by their daughters, preparing for their future role as a mother and wife. In contrast, Japanese fathers tend not to work in the household at all, but are favorably depicted waiting to be served or taking a nap. sons do not contribute much to running the household either, but instead reproduce the role model of the father. The spheres of the two sexes appear to be almost completely separate. Also, despite the increasing number of elderly people in Japanese society, grandparents are not very frequently shown in the family setting. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the depiction of Japanese family life in TV commercials and to reflect on its influence on commonly held assumptions about the family in Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 207-220 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826957 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826957 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:207-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826958_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Klaus Vollmer Author-X-Name-First: Klaus Author-X-Name-Last: Vollmer Title: Images of Japanese Society in the “New Civics Textbook”: Neo-Nationalist Antidotes for Demographic Challenges and Social Change Abstract: Discussions of Japanese neo-nationalism and activities of neo-nationalist groups like Tsukurukai have very much focused on issues of historiography. Compared to publications such as the group's “New History Textbook”, however, there has been little in-depth research on Tsukurukai's civics textbook (Atarashii kōmin kyōkasho) that remains largely unknown to a non-Japanese audience. To partially fill this gap, a close reading of Tsukurukai's civic textbook is presented in this paper. I will show that its narrative is fully in line with the claims of the neo-nationalist discourse published elsewhere. Focusing in particular on chapters that deal with the individual and the family, this reading helps to better understand Tsuku- rukai's view on gender relations and topics such as social and demographic change. Findings are put into perspective by comparing Tsukurukai's approach to other publishers' textbooks that present rather different images of these issues. I will argue that the “New Civics Textbook” represents a minority view on the role of family members and gender relations in contemporary Japan. On the other hand, the textbook's favourable view of an individual submissive to the state, juxtaposed with an alleged “excess of individualism” in postwar Japan, may find more approval in the present discussion on how to instil a sense of “patriotism” in Japanese school children. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 221-241 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11826958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11826958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:221-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11827253_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Heinrich Menkhaus Author-X-Name-First: Heinrich Author-X-Name-Last: Menkhaus Author-Name: Sven Saaler Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Saaler Author-Name: Christian W. Spang Author-X-Name-First: Christian W. Author-X-Name-Last: Spang Author-Name: Torsten Weber Author-X-Name-First: Torsten Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Author-Name: Peter Backhaus Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Backhaus Author-Name: Patrick Heinrich Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrich Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 245-278 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2008 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2008.11827253 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2008.11827253 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:19:y:2008:i:1:p:245-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826973_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Die Herausgeber Author-X-Name-First: Die Author-X-Name-Last: Herausgeber Title: Vorwort Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 11-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826973 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826973 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:11-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826974_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Volker Elis Author-X-Name-First: Volker Author-X-Name-Last: Elis Author-Name: Ralph Lützeler Author-X-Name-First: Ralph Author-X-Name-Last: Lützeler Title: Regionalentwicklung und Ungleichheit: Raumdisparitäten als Thema zur Prime Time—eine Einführung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 15-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826974 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826974 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:15-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826975_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Thomas Feldhoff Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Feldhoff Title: Landes- und Regionalentwicklung zwischen Wachstum und Schrumpfung: Regionale Disparitäten und Räumliche Planung in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 35-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826975 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826975 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:35-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826976_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Winfried Flüchter Author-X-Name-First: Winfried Author-X-Name-Last: Flüchter Title: Schrumpfende Städte als Herausforderung: Japan, Hokkaidō und der Fall der Stadt Yūbari Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 69-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826976 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826976 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:69-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826977_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christoph Brumann Author-X-Name-First: Christoph Author-X-Name-Last: Brumann Title: Weite Himmel über der Kaiserstadt: Die Kehrtwende in Kyotos Stadtplanung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 103-128 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:103-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826978_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Title: Ruheständler als Lebenselixier? Ruhestandswanderung und lokale Neubelebungsstrategien am Beispiel von Atami und Ishigaki Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 129-162 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:129-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826979_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cornelia Reiher Author-X-Name-First: Cornelia Author-X-Name-Last: Reiher Title: Kommunale Gebietsreformen der Heisei-Zeit und lokale Identität: Das Beispiel der Kommune Arita-chō Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 163-192 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826979 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826979 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:163-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826980_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carolin Funck Author-X-Name-First: Carolin Author-X-Name-Last: Funck Title: Eine neue Identität für Regionalstädte: Deindustrialisierung, kommunale Gebietsreform und Tourismus Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 193-222 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:193-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826981_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anthony Rausch Author-X-Name-First: Anthony Author-X-Name-Last: Rausch Title: Japanese Rural Revitalization: The Reality and Potential of Cultural Commodities as Local Brands Abstract: Against a background of the recent Heisei dai-gappei municipal mergers, this paper considers the reality of local revitalization in rural Japan through local branding; that is, the process through which local products are tied to the region from which they originate. While the importance of branding was formally recognized by the Japanese national government in 2006, this paper takes the position that the current mechanisms driving place-branding ultimately miss the potential of locally appropriate products. As part of the current rush to ‘brand’ anything local, the Tsugaru district of Aomori Prefecture has identified eight products for branding. However, considering the historical trajectory of Tsugaru nuri lacquerware and Tsugaru shamisen music, the two cultural commodities most associated with Tsugaru, it is clear that the potential of branding is complicated, if not countered—specifically in the case of cultural commodities—by the process of branding itself. The research concludes that in order to ensure that a brand image is appropriate and effective in revitalizing the place it is to be associated with, it is necessary to take a proper analytical approach: The historical trajectory of potentially brandable cultural commodities should be assessed, while recognizing that it is through such an approach that a commodity appropriate to local branding can be identified. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 223-245 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:223-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826982_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tatsushi Hirano Author-X-Name-First: Tatsushi Author-X-Name-Last: Hirano Author-Name: Sven Saaler Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Saaler Author-Name: Stefan Säbel Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Säbel Title: Recent Developments in the Representation of National Memory and Local Identities: The Politics of Memory in Tsushima, Matsuyama, and Maizuru Abstract: The establishment of stringent and homogeneous national master narratives in modern nation states is often contested by deeply-rooted local identities based upon different local versions of history. Even today, many regions of Japan are cultivating a unique account of their local history, often based on premodern events and personalities. These historical identities are expressed in prefectural museums, memorials and tourist locations such as medieval castles. However, in the past two decades the building of museums or memorials commemorating Japan's modern history has become increasingly prominent. In this context, tensions have become evident between the demands made by the national interpretation of history—which local museums and memorials cannot or do not want to ignore—and the strong desire for the preservation of local color and content in treatments of Japanese history.This article analyzes museums, memorials and memorial ceremonies in three Japanese prefectures which have received considerable attention in Japan in recent years. The background and origins of the memorial to the naval battle fought in the Tsushima Straits (1905) on Tsushima Island; the politics of memory pursued by the city of Matsuyama, which relates mainly to the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05) and its heroes; and the memorial and museum to Japanese repatriates from the Soviet Union and the Asian continent after the Second World War in Maizuru are examined in relation to official versions of national memory as expressed in declarations of the central government and memorials in the capital region. The article demonstrates that the politics of memory in the three prefectures in question is not an expression of a re-affirmation of a local narrative, but that it rather obviates tensions with the national master narrative and aims at embedding the local narrative within the framework of national history in a harmonious and complementary manner. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 247-277 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:247-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826983_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrew DeWit Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: DeWit Author-Name: Tatsuhiko Tani Author-X-Name-First: Tatsuhiko Author-X-Name-Last: Tani Title: The Local Dimension of Energy and Environmental Policy in Japan Abstract: This paper examines the political economy of Japan's surprisingly restricted energy and environmental performance. Japan is generally depicted as a front-runner in addressing energy and environmental challenges. Certainly, the country responded adroitly to the oil shocks of the 1970s. And note Japan's energy-efficient infrastructure: its public transport ranks among the world's best. Indeed, one would expect Japan to lead on environmental and climate issues, especially in developing renewable energy. Japan is rich, has a history of public-sector activism, has virtually no domestic conventional energy reserves, needs an effective regional development policy, and faces daunting threats through the steadily rising wall of spillover effects from the oil age and climate change. But Japan is not leading on energy and climate change, and notably not in the race to develop sustainable energy. The major reason for this is the poor use of the public sector. This paper argues that Japan risks forfeiting an opportunity to revitalize its local economies and its global role with smarter energy and environmental policies. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 281-305 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:281-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826984_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susanne Brucksch Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Brucksch Author-Name: Carolina Grünschloß Author-X-Name-First: Carolina Author-X-Name-Last: Grünschloß Title: From Environmental Accountability to Corporate Social Responsibility? Reflections on the CSR Boom in Japan from the Perspective of Business Management and Civil Society Groups Abstract: The paper discusses how corporate social responsibility in Japan has grown from environmental concerns to encompass broader social responsibilities. Special consideration is given to how CSR has emerged, been accepted and implemented in large corporations in today's Japan. Based on the example of environmental stakeholder groups, the paper discusses the expectations that society has regarding corporations and elaborates the role of interplay between environmental civil society groups and corporations within the corporate responsibility debate. The current trend towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) is assessed after reconstructing the development of environmental accountability of corporations and public awareness of it. In particular, the characteristics of CSR as a business and risk management tool concerning the relationship to external stakeholders are highlighted. The article is closed with an analysis of the increased attention towards the concept of CSR in context of the development of eco-collaborations as an example of changing business and stakeholder interaction patterns. It becomes clear that the situation generates chances for environmental groups to realize their own projects with the support of the companies and increase their chances of bringing forth their interests as stakeholders of the companies. The new CSR boom opens up new ways for the companies to manage emerging risks as well as to improve their reputation. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 307-329 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826984 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826984 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:307-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826985_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Author-Name: Patrick Heinrich Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrich Author-Name: Matthias Koch Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Koch Author-Name: Ralph Lützeler Author-X-Name-First: Ralph Author-X-Name-Last: Lützeler Author-Name: Heinrich Menkhaus Author-X-Name-First: Heinrich Author-X-Name-Last: Menkhaus Author-Name: Michael Prieler Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Prieler Author-Name: Christian W. Spang Author-X-Name-First: Christian W. Author-X-Name-Last: Spang Author-Name: Axel Klein Author-X-Name-First: Axel Author-X-Name-Last: Klein Author-Name: Alexandra Wittig Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Wittig Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 333-387 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826985 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826985 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:333-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826986_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Jahrbuchs Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 388-394 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2009 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2009.11826986 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2009.11826986 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:20:y:2009:i:1:p:388-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826987_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Title: Vorwort Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 11-11 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:11-11 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826988_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Title: Altern in Japan Herausforderungen und Chancen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 15-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:15-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826989_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Akiko Oda Author-X-Name-First: Akiko Author-X-Name-Last: Oda Title: Autonomy, Reciprocity and Communication in Older Spouse Relationships Abstract: In previous research, older couple relationships in Japan have been largely overlooked and the emphasis has instead targeted the child-parent relationship. My paper attempts to address this imbalance by investigating power dynamics of couples that relate to the autonomy, reciprocity and communication in older Japanese spouses. The continued presence of retired salary men at home was shown to have negative consequences for women who are termed “professional housewives”. Three contributory factors were identified in conjunction with the older women's declined autonomy. Reciprocity in the couple relationship was assessed using the housework participation of older men, where three types were identified in accordance with the men's degree of commitment. The gendered identity and cultural factors underpinning these types are fully elucidated through the qualitative (separate) interviewing of 47 older couples who live in Japan's Kantō region. communication in older couple relations is under-represented from the male point of view. My paper whilst seeking a balanced representation of the couples' views, pays attention to the pertinent issues of older Japanese men, particularly relating to jukunen rikon [divorce in old age] and the “new woman” movement. The concept of ishin denshin [understanding without verbalizing] is particularly relevant as the underlying cause behind the different gendered mental perspectives of this concept, which has generated resentment among women by acting as a barrier to a more open and accountable relationship. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 25-53 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826989 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826989 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:25-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826990_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Junko Ando Author-X-Name-First: Junko Author-X-Name-Last: Ando Title: Ältere Menschen und das Vormundschafts-recht für Volljährige in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 55-71 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826990 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826990 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:55-71 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826991_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julius Popp Author-X-Name-First: Julius Author-X-Name-Last: Popp Author-Name: Johannes H. Wilhelm Author-X-Name-First: Johannes H. Author-X-Name-Last: Wilhelm Title: Altern und Suizidalität im heutigen Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 73-93 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:73-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826992_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julia Obinger Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Obinger Title: Zur Situation älterer Obdachloser in urbanen Räumen Japans: Ursachen, Überlebensstrategien und Hilfsmassnahmen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 95-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:95-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826993_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carolina Paulsen Author-X-Name-First: Carolina Author-X-Name-Last: Paulsen Title: Arbeiten bis ins hohe Alter: Institutionelle und nicht-institutionelle Einflüsse auf das Erwerbsverhalten älterer Menschen in Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 125-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:125-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kazue Haga Author-X-Name-First: Kazue Author-X-Name-Last: Haga Title: Gründungsdynamik in alternden Gesellschaften—das Beispiel Japan Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 163-196 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:163-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826995_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Prieler Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Prieler Author-Name: Florian Kohlbacher Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Kohlbacher Author-Name: Shigeru Hagiwara Author-X-Name-First: Shigeru Author-X-Name-Last: Hagiwara Author-Name: Akie Arima Author-X-Name-First: Akie Author-X-Name-Last: Arima Title: Ältere Menschen in der japanischen Fernsehwerbung: Eine umfragebasierte und inhaltsanalytische Untersuchung Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 197-222 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:197-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826996_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Katrina Moore Author-X-Name-First: Katrina Author-X-Name-Last: Moore Author-Name: Ruth Campbell Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell Title: Mastery with Age: The Appeal of the Traditional Arts to Senior Citizens in Contemporary Japan Abstract: This article examines the involvement of senior citizens in the traditional arts in Japan. In these arts, elderly practitioners command respect from their audiences and students for their long years of training and experience. They are venerated as the repositories of embodied knowledge and skill. in contrast, youthful and middle-aged practitioners are considered “works in progress” who must continue to perfect their skills to approximate their elderly counterparts. Drawing on case studies of senior citizens who join classes in the traditional arts of Noh chanting and dance and calligraphy, we explore the ways in which the traditional arts give senior citizens a new horizon for growing and striving into later life. We theorize that the promise of mastery in very old age has special appeal to retirees in Japan. Through various certification processes, many are able to work their way up to attain leadership roles in old age. This growth possibility serves as a counter force against the loss of social role that many retirees experience after they leave the workforce. These arts also provide a unique framework for transforming the risks associated with old age into opportunities for realizing human maturity. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 223-251 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:223-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826997_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jill Miller Author-X-Name-First: Jill Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: Daring to Take On Female Roles: Japanese Male Retirees as Volunteer Carers Abstract: In the 1990s, several Japanese men established organizations that incorporate volunteering to provide new directions for older Japanese after retirement. They have encouraged male members to become involved in care work, traditionally the preserve of women. The time that these individuals give to others while in their active third age entitles them to reciprocal help in their frail fourth age, satisfying traditional Japanese ideals of reciprocity.This paper examines the life of the founder of one of these groups, Takahata Kei'ichi, his organization NALC, and some of the older men within NALC who have become volunteer carers. These individuals are adding support that goes beyond that provided by the long-term care insurance scheme, while gaining personal satisfaction from feeling useful. The post-retirement years can encompass moving beyond previous roles to take on new ones that benefit both the individual and society. The rapid ageing of the Japanese population has been portrayed as posing a threat to the economy, but this view overlooks the contributions retirees can make in their communities. Moreover, the acknowledgement that men can assume the tasks of carers could be said to represent a fundamental shift in the way male and female roles are viewed in Japan. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 253-270 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826997 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826997 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:253-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826998_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cosima Wagner Author-X-Name-First: Cosima Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner Title: „Tele-Altenpflege” und „Robotertherapie”: Leben mit Robotern als Vision und Realität für die alternde Gesellschaft Japans Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 271-298 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:271-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11826999_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefan Lippert Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Lippert Author-Name: Thomas Ammann Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Ammann Title: Open Society, Closed Market? Abstract: It appears that Japan pursues a lopsided internationalization strategy—keeping foreign companies out while at the same time investing massively in foreign markets. This paper examines whether this is an appropriate position. First, we look into the foreign direct investment issue and try to understand the current situation in Japan. In particular, we analyze the underlying two-fold assumption: (a) that there are international companies willing and able to make large investments in Japan, and (b) that they cannot do it because the Japanese market is closed. The ratio of inbound FDI (foreign direct investment) to GDP is considerably lower in Japan than in other major industrialized nations, and Japanese companies directly invest four times as much abroad as foreign companies invest in Japan. This does not mean, however, that the Japanese market is closed. In fact, companies are deciding to invest in other countries where conditions are (or are perceived to be) more conducive to penetration. Second, we compare FDI with cross-border portfolio investments. Compared to FDI, portfolio investments in listed companies in Japan are relatively high. Foreign investors hold around one-fourth of the shares at listed companies. This figure has been rising continuously for 20 years, interrupted only in 2001–02 and in 2008–09. Third, we take a closer look at Japan's international trade and the overseas business of Japanese companies. Japan's industrial sector has integrated itself very actively in global trade (45 % of its sales are posted overseas), but the Japanese economy is not “export-driven”. Its degree of integration into world trade is rather low. We assume that this can be explained by qualitative, HR-related factors. Finally, we ask what the chances are that ongoing internationalization will succeed amid and after the global recession of 2008–09. Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 301-333 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11826999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11826999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:301-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ19_A_11827000_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ralph Lützeler Author-X-Name-First: Ralph Author-X-Name-Last: Lützeler Author-Name: Heinrich Menkhaus Author-X-Name-First: Heinrich Author-X-Name-Last: Menkhaus Author-Name: Hiromi Tanaka-Naji Author-X-Name-First: Hiromi Author-X-Name-Last: Tanaka-Naji Author-Name: Cosima Wagner Author-X-Name-First: Cosima Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner Author-Name: Christian Weisgerber Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Weisgerber Title: Rezensionen Journal: Japanstudien Pages: 337-369 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2010 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/09386491.2010.11827000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09386491.2010.11827000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:21:y:2010:i:1:p:337-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2171953_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sonja Ganseforth Author-X-Name-First: Sonja Author-X-Name-Last: Ganseforth Title: Protesting legacies: Anti-Olympic movements in Japan before and after Tokyo 2020/1 Abstract: The Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 will be remembered as the first Olympics to be postponed and held without in-person spectators during a global pandemic. The mega-event was also highly unpopular among the Japanese population in the weeks before the opening, but only a limited, yet consistent group of activists took to the streets to protest against it. Drawing on insights from ethnographic fieldwork at numerous protest events in Tokyo in the years 2019–2022, I analyze how the legacies of Tokyo 2020/1 are contested and evaluated from the activists’ perspective and what the implications are for the future of their activism and public protest in Japan in general. What are the legacies of Tokyo 2020/1 for Japanese social movements? Many of the activists’ more radical criticisms seem to lack connectivity with the wider public, which still maintains a safe distance to mass demonstrations. This alienation is likely exacerbated by the criminalizing effect of performative police repressions during demonstrations, legal prosecution of activists, and a lack of (fair) representation of protests in mainstream media. Therefore, I conclude that we cannot yet consider anti-Olympic activism the beginning of a new protest cycle in Japan. Nevertheless, it follows a resurgence of other protests in recent years against nuclear power, securitization, nationalism, and militarist policies. Its burgeoning transnational connections might lay the foundational groundwork for Japanese activist linkages with larger global movements that share similar concerns surrounding capitalist exploitation of humans and nature, climate crisis, and planetary environmental breakdown. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 94-116 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2171953 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2171953 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:94-116 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1952516_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sabine Frühstück Author-X-Name-First: Sabine Author-X-Name-Last: Frühstück Title: Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 158-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1952516 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1952516 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:158-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2171717_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yoshifusa Ichii Author-X-Name-First: Yoshifusa Author-X-Name-Last: Ichii Title: The capitalist realism of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games Abstract: This article explores how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prioritised the hosting of the Olympic Games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Without doubt, the prioritisation of hosting the Olympic Games during the pandemic here substantiates what literary critic Mark Fisher has called 'capitalist realism'. This concept refers to a worldview that holds that there is no other way than capitalism for the society in which we live. I argue that the Olympic Games are a symbol of capitalist realism. To make this argument, I first summarize Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism and Jules Boykoff’s (2020) arguments that the Olympic Industry is first and foremost about perpetuating capitalism in the form of ‘celebration capitalism’. Following this, I describe how a 'new lifestyle’ or ‘new normal' has been imposed by the state and used to create a setting for holding the postponed Olympics in its entirely 'perfect form'. Next, I discuss the role of neoliberalism in facilitating a paradoxical relationship between the state and private industry. Building from this, I suggest that the relationship between new ways of life, celebration capitalism and neoliberalism is a constitutive part of capitalist realism aimed at ensuring the rule of capital at any cost, as demonstrated by the IOC's running of the Olympics despite the COVID-19 epidemic. At the same time, the running the Games also empowered the Japanese government to create a state of exception that enables them to pursue economic and political goals with unprecedented freedom by simultaneously circumscribing the freedom of its citizens. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 58-72 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2171717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2171717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:58-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2168836_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jules Boykoff Author-X-Name-First: Jules Author-X-Name-Last: Boykoff Title: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From a “safe pair of hands” to a corrupt pair of claws Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 55-57 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2168836 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2168836 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:55-57 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2171845_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonathan Lewis Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis Title: Online political communication about the Tokyo Olympics Abstract: This article investigates how Japanese politicians and their followers tweeted about the Tokyo Olympics between 1 January 2020 and 24 September 2021. Using a comprehensive dataset of Japanese politicians’ tweets and followers, plus text (sentiment) and network analysis, it finds that politicians from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) stayed relatively quiet about the Games but did tweet positively about the Games after they started. In contrast, the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) politicians tweeted energetically in their attempt to have the Games cancelled. Politicians from other parties were more muted, in line with the levels of interest expressed by their followers. Followers of Kōmeitō politicians, junior coalition partners of the LDP, tweeted much less about the Games than users following LDP politicians. These findings were repeated when politically interested users were grouped into clusters of mutual followers. Overall, this suggests that the Olympics were a polarizing issue in Japan, with users following opposition figures strongly opposed to the Games while those following the largest governing party were more supportive. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 35-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2171845 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2171845 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:35-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1885585_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susanne Klien Author-X-Name-First: Susanne Author-X-Name-Last: Klien Title: How a reverse sankin kōtai will change Japan – how to simultaneously aim for work reform and regional revitalization Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 161-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1885585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1885585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:161-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2169856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andreas Niehaus Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Niehaus Title: “I want to bring this light to those in despair” – the Tokyo 2020 torch relay and the creation of Olympic legacies Abstract: Mega sport events like the Olympic Games leave their marks on hosting nations and often become important lieux de mémoire in the history of a nation. In this article, I will analyze the Tokyo 2020 torch relay as a highly ritualistic and highly choreographed act that creates a space of and for symbolic practices and performances, and I will use it as a case study to show how the torch relay contributes to the creation of an Olympic legacy in Japan. My argument is divided into four sections. In each section, I will focus on a different area of the “microcosm of the torch relay” to shed light on chosen official strategies and efforts of Japanese politics, the IOC, the JOC, and the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee to create a 2020 Olympics narrative and future legacies. At the same time, I will challenge these efforts, strategies, and practices in terms of underlying intentions, hidden agendas, their impact and (failed) success by examining some of the many obstacles, opposing voices, and counter-narratives along the way of the torch relay, as well as how the micro-narratives of individual torch bearers may be the most enduring memories of the Tokyo 2020 torch relay. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 75-93 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2169856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2169856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:75-93 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2169819_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul O’Shea Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: O’Shea Author-Name: Sebastian Maslow Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Maslow Title: The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon? Abstract: The Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics will go down in history as the 'Pandemic Games'. Postponed by a year due to Covid-19, they were eventually held despite broad public protest and amidst the Delta variant wave. Japan brought home a record haul of medals, yet Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide resigned in ignominy shortly after the Games ended. So, was Tokyo 2020/2021 a 'success' or a 'failure', and for whom? We examine the policy and politics of the Games, considering the attribution of 'success' and 'failure' to the Olympics across a range of issues, actors, and narratives. Reviewing their economic, public health, soft power, and political impact, we find that the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics remain deeply ambiguous. Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s vision of a proud, 'reborn' Japan showcasing itself to the world obviously did not come to pass; neither did the promise of a 'Recovery Olympics' aiding in the reconstruction of the post-3/11 Tohoku region. Conversely, the predictions of a COVID-19 catastrophe, of even an 'Olympic variant', also failed to transpire. Rather, the Olympics became a pared-down event forced through by vested interests, notably the IOC and Dentsu. The political fallout was contained by one-party dominance in Japan’s democracy, where even a forced mega-event during a pandemic was insufficient to threaten the Liberal Democratic Party’s stranglehold on power. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 16-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2169819 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2169819 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:16-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2169462_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandre Faure Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Faure Title: How the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were embedded in urban planning documents: The enforcement of a metropolitan strategy in the Bay Area Abstract: This study examines the coherence between the Tokyo Olympic urban project, the national urban planning strategies, and the metropolitan and sub-metropolitan policies. The objective is to understand how the wards are integrated in the definition and design of the Olympic project by questioning the available urban planning tools. This paper shows that the Olympic project is fundamentally top-down and does not take into account the objectives of the wards, while it also seeks to finalize urban strategies decided at the national level from the 1980s. The paper examines 25 strategic documents and urban planning documents in English and Japanese in order to trace the evolution of urban planning choices. The result of the study confirms that it is important for the Olympic movement to reform the preparatory phase of the event, in particular by lengthening the period between the election of the host city and the delivery of the Games, while including more strongly all the public actors and not only the institution signing the host city contract. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 136-157 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2169462 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2169462 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:136-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1921100_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sebastian Polak-Rottmann Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Polak-Rottmann Title: Cosmopolitan rurality, depopulation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in 21st-century Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 166-169 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1921100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1921100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:166-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2168838_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Toake Endoh Author-X-Name-First: Toake Author-X-Name-Last: Endoh Title: The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the removal of migrants Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 73-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2168838 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2168838 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:73-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2195312_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Chiavacci Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Chiavacci Author-Name: Iris Wieczorek Author-X-Name-First: Iris Author-X-Name-Last: Wieczorek Title: Tokyo Olympics 2020: Between dream and contention Abstract: What was and what will remain of the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games? This special issue brings together assessments from different perspectives regarding diverse aspects of the impact and legacy of Tokyo’s second Summer Olympics. It is safe to say that Tokyo 2020/2021, as the COVID-19 games, did not fully achieve what the Japanese organizers had hoped it would. On the contrary, the Olympic dream of 2020 was postponed and met quite substantial opposition. This introduction discusses the main findings of the contributions and places them in the larger context. The focus is on four aspects of Tokyo 2020/2021: 1) the Olympics as a political project of the conservative establishment and former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō; 2) critical perspectives on the Olympics as a mega event; 3) social movements and protests against the Olympics; 4) impact of the Olympics on technological innovation and city infrastructure. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-15 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2195312 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2195312 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:3-15 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1913795_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sarah Bijlsma Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Bijlsma Title: Drawing the sea near: Satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 163-166 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1913795 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1913795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:163-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2175424_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor-in-chief Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2175424 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2175424 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2168840_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christian Tagsold Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Tagsold Title: Akira and the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and 2020/21: Reading the games through manga and anime—reading manga and anime through the games Abstract: When the manga series Akira appeared in 1982, it quickly became a bestseller, and the 1988 anime version strongly reinforced its popularity. Ōtomo Katsuhiro depicted the dark cityscape of Neo-Tokyo compellingly. However, until now, interpretations mainly focussed on Akira as a prime example of the cyberpunk genre. Yet, the story also revolves around the preparations for a renewed Olympics, celebrating the rebirth of Tokyo. By referencing the 1964 Games, Ōtomo paints a highly critical image of the first Tokyo Olympics, reflecting the mood of the early 1980s, when citizens vehemently opposed plans to host the Olympics in Nagoya. Ōtomo primarily employs some of the 1964 architecture to link Akira to the first Tokyo Olympics. For example, the Temple of Lady Miyako replicates Tange Kenzō's National Gymnasia next to the Meiji Shrine. Together with the new venue for the (Akira) Olympics in 2020, the Temple is one of the main action scenes, indicating that a spatial reading of the manga can yield fresh interpretations. Nevertheless, Akira's critical stance toward the Olympics did not prevent Ōtomo from contributing to the original plan for the 2020 Olympic opening ceremony, which featured characters from Akira to harness its popularity for the global Cool Japan factor. For these reasons, analyzing Akira's various Olympic dimensions help us better understand Japan's entanglement with this sports mega-event over the last decades. At the same time, a thorough Olympic reading of Akira is long overdue. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 117-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2168840 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2168840 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:1:p:117-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1934960_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandra Hambleton Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Hambleton Title: Censorship in Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 297-299 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1934960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1934960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:297-299 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1925399_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Glenda S. Roberts Author-X-Name-First: Glenda S. Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts Author-Name: Hiroko Costantini Author-X-Name-First: Hiroko Author-X-Name-Last: Costantini Title: The work, family and care nexus in Paris and Tokyo: Gender equality and well-being among urban professionals Abstract: Based on 51 qualitative interviews of middle- to upper-middle-class women and men in their thirties through early fifties in Paris and Tokyo from 2018 to 2020, this qualitative research seeks to develop a comparative understanding of how women and men reconcile the diverse commitments of work and family in two post-industrial societies by querying such topics as the contexts for dual-career households, the meanings of work for women and men, workplace challenges, and gender and the division of household labor. Recent shifts in gender roles, female workforce participation, and more varied living patterns and couple relationships are increasingly placing pressure on younger and middle-aged couples with children. Our findings suggest that despite historical and cultural differences in the nexus of work and family, not to mention diverging levels of government support for dual-worker families, there are interesting commonalities in the ways in which couples reconcile work and family. In particular, in both Japan and France, naturalizing women as the main care givers is a fundamental aspect of how work and family balance is maintained. Despite the presence of many supportive institutional frameworks for flexible work, childcare support, and gender equity, both the French and the Japanese pursue subjective well-being through gendered notions of care. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 214-247 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1925399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1925399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:214-247 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1999885_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Peter Cave Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Cave Title: Education and social justice in Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 293-297 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1999885 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1999885 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:293-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2257899_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isaac Gagné Author-X-Name-First: Isaac Author-X-Name-Last: Gagné Title: Message from the managing editor Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 171-172 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2257899 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2257899 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:171-172 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1971362_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kazuya Fukuoka Author-X-Name-First: Kazuya Author-X-Name-Last: Fukuoka Title: Redesigning What is National: The Politics of Education and the New Moral Education Initiative in Globalizing Japan Abstract: In December 2006, the Japanese Diet passed a revision of the Fundamental Law of Education (FLE), which aimed at teaching a sense of community and patriotic feelings among school children. This move is a clear departure from the long-standing norm in Japan’s post-war education policy in which democratic control and egalitarianism were the two primary principles. As the new FLE emphasizes the importance of love of country, how could the principle be potentially embodied in the contents of teaching materials for moral education? This exploratory study questions how such principles might be embedded in the contents of teaching materials for moral education. There are two analytical foci of this study. First, through the analysis of a supplementary moral reader, Watashitachi no Dōtoku (Our Morals), directly written, commissioned, and distributed by the Ministry of Education (2014–2017/2018), this study reveals how the three underlying themes of the Revised FLE, including patriotism, public spirit, and international cooperation, are projected on the contents and narratives of Our Morals. Second, this intended image of Japan in Our Morals (concretized by the Ministry of Education) is also scrutinized against the backdrop of Japan’s contemporary multicultural challenges. This study attempts to encapsulate the manifestation of the government’s intentions observable in Our Morals and the findings of this study thus highlight the political (rather than educational/pedagogical) significance of Our Morals. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 248-269 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1971362 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1971362 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:248-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2022572_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vincent Mirza Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Mirza Title: Autonomy and responsibility: Women’s life and career choices in urban Japan Abstract: Based on fieldwork and interviews collected over the past decade, this article examines how young single women in Tokyo are trying to make choices for their careers, navigating between the political economy of labour and reproduction. The article looks at how these women make choices within an ever-changing context where the Japanese moral economy of the postwar coexists with a neoliberal articulation of individual responsibility for life choices. Their experiences reveal the important contradictions between the conservative work regime within companies and the flexible job market they have created. This creates impossible contradictions that place women in both a precarious job market, and when they work in more stable conditions, results in the impossibility of having a family. This article will discuss how, despite these contradictions, young women create meaningful work while attempting to find freedom of choice as they try to define work and life choices not only as a social and moral responsibility, but also as an individual choice. In other words, I seek to show how life choices articulated during the post-growth era are creating new configurations and new challenges within the context of Japan’s ongoing economic and demographic challenges. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 197-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.2022572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.2022572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:197-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1957543_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonia Miserka Author-X-Name-First: Antonia Author-X-Name-Last: Miserka Title: Urban migrants in rural Japan: Between agency and anomie in a post-growth society Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 291-293 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1957543 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1957543 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:291-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2015846_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Author-Name: Anne-Sophie L. König Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Sophie L. Author-X-Name-Last: König Title: Robotic devices and ICT in long-term care in Japan: Their potential and limitations from a workplace perspective Abstract: In light of its rapidly aging society, Japan is pressured to full-heartedly address the labor shortage in long-term care. Among the various policy options currently in discussion, government agencies and business sector representatives agree that robotic devices and information and communication technology (ICT) constitute a suitable countermeasure. However, during our research in Japan in 2019, we found that robotic devices and ICT are only reluctantly being introduced into long-term care facilities. Based on our field visits and interviews as well as supplementary document research, this paper discusses the potential that facility managers ascribe to robotic devices and ICT when it comes to alleviating the labor shortage in the long-term care institutions they run. Of particular interest is the question to what degree the usage of robotic devices and ICT could reduce the physical hardships and mental stress that staff in long-term caregiving experience. This paper will further our understanding of the labor situation in long-term care facilities and contribute to the research field of robotic devices and ICT in Japan’s labor market. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 270-290 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.2015846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.2015846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:270-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2254935_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kimio Itō Author-X-Name-First: Kimio Author-X-Name-Last: Itō Author-Name: Allison Alexy Author-X-Name-First: Allison Author-X-Name-Last: Alexy Title: The masculinization of deprivation: Transformations in industrial and labor patterns and the emergence of the Men’s Crisis in Japan Abstract: A movement for gender equality, begun in earnest in the 1970s, has prompted fundamental changes to work and family lives in Japan. Despite this, discussions about shifting gender structures have frequently focused on women, leaving men’s gender issues in the shadows. This article explores the last 50 years of labor and family changes from a gendered perspective, and the major historical and civilizational shifts behind those changing patterns. Focusing specifically on a crisis of masculinity, which I label the “Men’s Crisis,” this article examines the structural transformations in industry, labor, and society that we are currently confronting. Since the 1990s, the “Men’s Crisis” has become increasingly visible in Japanese society. Because the “Men’s Crisis” is spreading as an unidentified, invisible problem today, most men feel an unexplained, or unexplainable, deprivation. In other words, what I call the “masculinization of deprivation” has emerged. In order to advance gender equality and increase women’s participation in society, we must also contend with the vital policies surrounding men as gendered people, which have been ignored in the past. In particular, significant policy proposals are necessary, specifically those that acknowledge men’s needs for counseling and advice, as well as the links between men and care. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 175-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2254935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2254935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:175-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2254940_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Glenda S. Roberts Author-X-Name-First: Glenda S. Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts Title: Introduction to special section: ‘Gender, family and work in the 21st century: Challenges and transformations’ Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 173-174 Issue: 2 Volume: 35 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2254940 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2254940 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:35:y:2023:i:2:p:173-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2133667_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: YingYing Jiang Author-X-Name-First: YingYing Author-X-Name-Last: Jiang Title: Conscription insurance in pre-war Japan - Private enterprise and national interest Abstract: Japan’s Conscription Law of 1873 constituted a core element of the military reforms implemented by the Meiji government. The law implied an additional burden in the form of a “tax in kind” which would not be shared equally, because only a small portion of those eligible to serve were actually recruited. As the government neither alleviated the hardship nor corrected the inequalities created by the conscription system, local communities and private entrepreneurs took initiative. One response was conscription insurance. Introduced toward the end of the 19th century, it established itself as an important segment of Japan’s insurance industry in pre-war Japan with a performance comparable to that of the life insurance industry. Despite its success, Japan’s conscription insurance has so far not attracted the attention of international scholars. This paper takes a first step towards filling the gap. It describes the background of the major companies, evaluates their core product and analyses the performance of the industry. It argues that a major factor in the success of the industry was the ability of the companies to position themselves and their product as serving the national interest. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 103-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2133667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2133667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:103-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2066988_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Rosemary Soliman Dawood Author-X-Name-First: Rosemary Soliman Author-X-Name-Last: Dawood Title: Motherhood discourses and political activism in post-3.11 movements in Japan Abstract: The triple disaster in March 2011 (i.e. 3.11) triggered a national crisis that affected Japanese society on many levels. Strikingly, this crisis gave visibility to protest groups with no prior political activity organizing demonstrations against the government. One such group was Mama no Kai, an assembly of anti-war mothers protesting against peace and security legislation and the amendment of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan. This paper focuses on Mama no Kai activism and the group’s use of motherhood discourses. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with assembly members, the study aims to identify the primary characteristics of mothers’ activism in the post-3.11 era, the development of the use of motherhood discourses, and the contribution of their strategies to the paradigm shift of mothers’ movements in Japanese urban activism. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 70-85 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2066988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2066988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:70-85 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2330769_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Franz Waldenberger Author-X-Name-First: Franz Author-X-Name-Last: Waldenberger Title: Message from the editor-in-chief Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2330769 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2330769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1989132_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Florian Coulmas Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Coulmas Title: Cultural manifold analysis on national character Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 148-150 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1989132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1989132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:148-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2322262_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Barbara Geilhorn Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Geilhorn Title: Introduction to the special issue: Art and regional revitalization - case studies from Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 3-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2322262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2322262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:3-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2290369_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Igor Prusa Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Prusa Title: The Johnny’s sex abuse scandal and the role of media in Japan Abstract: The aim of this commentary is to shed some light on the sex abuse scandal of Johnny Kitagawa and his talent agency Johnny & Associates (hereafter “Johnny’s”). First, it looks at the role of the Japanese media during the scandal development. Here, the difference will be made between the “outside-media” (weeklies, foreign press) that were the first to expose the Johnny’s scandal, and the “inside-media” (dailies, TV broadcast) that were persistently ignoring the scandal. Largely owing to this, Kitagawa was able to sidestep allegations of abuse for decades. Next, the commentary touches upon the institutional power of the Johnny’s agency within the network of Japanese power circles. Importantly, this power-network becomes decisive in soft-pedaling the scandal, or fueling the hype. Further, it looks at the nature of structural exploitation at Johnny’s and the issue of whistleblowing in Japan. One section is dedicated to the issue of sexual abuse in Japan and the West. Next, the commentary offers a performance analysis of the Johnny’s press conference and points to the ritualized quality of televised confessions. Finally, it touches upon the issue of scandal consequences and offers two viewpoints on the aftermath of the Johnny’s scandal: optimistic (i.e. the scandal will change things for the better) and pessimistic (i.e. the scandal will not be much transformative). Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 126-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2290369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2023.2290369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:126-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2312762_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Eimi Tagore Author-X-Name-First: Eimi Author-X-Name-Last: Tagore Title: Art festivals in Japan: Fueling revitalization, tourism, and self-censorship Abstract: This paper critically considers large-scale contemporary art festivals that have become a significant force of art tourism in Japan. While many of these projects got their start in socially conscious endeavors with a focus on machizukuri, or local community building, the increase of government-sponsored revitalization initiatives and heightened pressure from the tourism industry has shifted the output of these festivals over the years. As such, this paper aims to situate such festivals within their shifting genealogy, observe some of the ways that today’s artists and their artwork may be subject to precarious positions of instrumentalization and censorship, and raise points of critique for audiences to keep in mind around the topic of rural revitalization – i.e. what are some of the challenges that artists, curators, and organizers face today? While reflecting on factors at stake for art and cultural production in a hyper-touristic context, this paper also highlights the work of Shitamichi Motoyuki, an artist disrupting this paradigm in ways reminiscent of earlier forms of machizukuri art practices. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 7-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2312762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2312762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:7-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1953774_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Yuki Asahina Author-X-Name-First: Yuki Author-X-Name-Last: Asahina Title: Japan’s nationalist right in the internet age: Online media and grassroots conservative activism Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 145-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1953774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1953774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:145-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_1988195_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Gabriele Vogt Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: Vogt Title: Immigrant Japan: mobility and belonging in an ethno-nationalist society Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 150-153 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.1988195 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2021.1988195 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:150-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2074127_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Timothy Benedict Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Benedict Title: Karma and punishment: Prison chaplaincy in Japan Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 153-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2074127 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2074127 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:153-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2306112_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Carolin Funck Author-X-Name-First: Carolin Author-X-Name-Last: Funck Author-Name: Meng Qu Author-X-Name-First: Meng Author-X-Name-Last: Qu Title: Art tourism and paradigms of island revitalization in Japan Abstract: Art tourism in rural destinations in Japan has received attention in both media and academia. Two major regional art festivals that are conducted in a regular cycle have triggered this boom in the 21st century. However, art and cultural tourism have formed an important part of regional revitalization strategies for 30 years. This paper focuses on four island destinations in the Seto Inland Sea that have incorporated art in their branding strategies to examine how shifts in national policies for regional development are reflected in the local context. We examine trends in island research in Japan, paradigm shifts in regional development policies and the role of art tourism in rural revitalization to establish a framework for comparison. Through this framework, we analyze how art tourism is integrated into general development concepts and examine the main actors and the roles of the private sector and residents. We identified two paradigm shifts in the framework of national development plans and laws. Two of our case studies fall into the first phase, where subsidies by the national government form the core of investment for art tourism under the leadership of local mayors but result in different outcomes in terms of success as tourist destinations. On the other hand, two case studies from the latter phase feature a stronger variety of integrated art tourism policies, depending on the engagement of private sector actors and residents. In conclusion, the expansion of art tourism on rural islands reflects a complex interplay of global trends and national development paradigms on the local level. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 20-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2306112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2306112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:20-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2314331_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Anemone Platz Author-X-Name-First: Anemone Author-X-Name-Last: Platz Title: From social issue to art site and beyond – reassessing rural akiya kominka Abstract: Akiya or vacant houses are often perceived as threats to their neighborhood, as socio-political problems for local communities, and as objects of difficult decisions for their owners. However, recently there has been a reappraisal of their forgotten qualities and a revival in interest in such houses, especially when considered as sites of a special character suited to different types of cultural events. This article explores the implications of the use of akiya in rural communities in Japan, tracing the trajectory of change from irritating nuisance to local (touristic) attraction and art site. Furthermore, it analyzes how this shift has the potential to lead to their reassessment as valuable resources not only for the revitalization of local communities but also for private choices in everyday life. The article analyzes three specific art installations created within the framework of recurring art festivals and staged within the walls of old vacant dwellings, and the artists’ thoughts behind them, which hint at incentives for akiya use inspired by the sites. The artworks offer opportunities for interactions between residents, artists, and visitors, influencing insider and outsider perceptions of the local community, and they function as innovative playgrounds for local citizens’ and newcomers’ individual choices. Examples from the field show that the artist’s role as yosomono (outsider) ultimately has the potential to pave the way towards a more diverse and creative view of these community assets, changing the perception of the vacant house from being a bothersome and useless legacy into a resource. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 41-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2314331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2314331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:41-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2083336_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Erik Ropers Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Ropers Title: Narrating against dominance: Women and organized crime in Japanese discourse and popular culture Abstract: Globally, women have often been marginalized in discourses about organized crime and are typically cast as passive agents exploited by men in their daily lives. Rather than accepting this stereotype as given, this article traces various discourses and lived experiences of women involved in Japanese organized crime. In the case of Japan, common understandings of organized crime often refer back to the stereotypical roles filled by men with reference to popular culture: as gangsters, gamblers, goons, or thugs. Engaging existing scholarship that examines women’s participation in organized crime, this paper interrogates women’s experiences and participation through the lens of Japanese manga featuring stories involving female criminality, complemented by nonfictional accounts drawn from collections of interviews and autobiographies. Whereas most discourses and narratives concerning organized crime in Japan suggest women are disempowered or passive agents, narratives by women themselves suggest that women connected to organized crime wield significant influence and authority in certain situations. I suggest that women’s agency in the real world of organized crime can be seen most clearly in Japanese manga and popular culture, which – while fictional – in fact makes the actual voices and stories that inform them widely visible to a broad audience, thereby giving voice to these silenced actors. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 86-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2083336 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2022.2083336 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:rcojxx:v:36:y:2024:i:1:p:86-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: RCOJ_A_2315374_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Peter Eckersall Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Eckersall Author-Name: Tom Looser Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Looser Title: Performance enacting mobility and shifting borders – the global countryside? Abstract: This essay considers how performances by Takayama Akira (founder of Port B) are made to explore experiences of mobility and migration among people who traverse geographical and geopolitical spaces in Japan and elsewhere. In making works that uncover hidden sites that are connected to diasporic and migratory passage, Takayama invites reflections on questions of borders, zones, regions, and the passages between them. Our paper will discuss how Takayama’s work is a form of place-making. His tour performances and mobile ideas of theatre create complexities around the meaning of place in terms of re-spatialized institutional strata and civic designations. We aim to explore how civic institutions and designations such as “rural” and “city” are being broken and/or made liminal. Our paper will outline how this spatial dramaturgy has ramifications for the “global countryside” (Woods) as something both institutionalized and yet to be. Journal: Contemporary Japan Pages: 57-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 36 Year: 2024 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2024.2315374 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/18692729.2024.2315374 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. 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