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- The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize
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Pages: 1 - 2
Abstract: Since 2002, the Institute of Social Science (ISS) of the University of Tokyo has partnered with Oxford University Press (OUP) to award the ISS–OUP Prize to the author of the best article published in Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) each year. The prize includes ¥25,000 in books and a year’s subscription to SSJJ. With the author’s consent, the winning paper may be translated into Japanese and published in the Institute’s Shakai Kagaku Kenkyū (The Journal of Social Science). After soliciting recommendations from SSJJ’s International Editorial Board, the SSJJ Editorial Board selects the article making the greatest contribution to research on modern Japan. The main criteria are (a) originality of research theme, (b) excellence of theoretical framework and empirical data, and (c) contribution to future studies in the field.
PubDate: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac034
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment
in Japan-
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Pages: 47 - 60
Abstract: AbstractWhat shapes preferences for income redistribution' Studies find that social identification plays an important role. In this paper, I argue that in-group favoritism generated through income proximity and out-group discrimination stemming from a nation/foreigner cleavage affect redistribution preference. Using data from a survey experiment with 4,002 Japanese citizens, I examined whether priming the poor as recipients of public assistance (or Seikatsu Hogo) generates more (less) support for income redistribution among the poor (the wealthier) and whether priming foreigners as public assistance recipients decreases support for redistribution. Analyses reveal that respondents with annual household income of 5–10 million yen negatively respond to the treatment priming the poor as public assistance recipients. Results also indicate that priming foreigners as public assistance recipients decreases support for redistribution. These findings corroborate previous research that finds evidence from North America and Europe. Analyzing a sample from Japan offers the external validity because the recent rise in income disparity in Japan involves unique characteristics including pauperization of low-income groups without enriching the wealthy. A rapid increase in the inflow of immigrants to Japan necessitates the need to study how Japanese people shape their redistribution preference in response to a growing number of foreign residents.
PubDate: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac029
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact
of Attending a High-Ranking College-
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Pages: 61 - 76
Abstract: AbstractThis study investigates the gender gap present in the relationship between obtaining a college degree and labour earnings in Japan, using a dataset that contains detailed information about the colleges from which the respondents graduated. In particular, we focus on the ranking of colleges as a factor. We find that obtaining a college degree, regardless of the college ranking, is positively correlated with higher earnings even after controlling educational and cultural experiences in childhood, for both men and women, but that this relationship is stronger for men. Moreover, graduating from a high-ranking college is positively and significantly associated with higher earnings for male workers only. Further, the relationship between a high-ranking college degree and women’s spousal labour earnings is positive and significant. Thus, opportunities to obtain higher education benefits are most likely connected to the different paths that men and women take to attain economic success.
PubDate: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac026
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the
Asia-Pacific-
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Pages: 117 - 120
Abstract: Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific by KatadaSaoriNew York: Columbia University Press, 2020, 344 pp., $35.00 (paper ISBN 9780231190732)
PubDate: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac028
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East
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Pages: 121 - 124
Abstract: Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia) by ChaisungLimNagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2021, 638 pp., ¥7,800 (cloth ISBN 978-4-8158-1013-9)
PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac033
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and
Mobility-
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Pages: 137 - 140
Abstract: Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobilityby BreadenJeremyNew York: Routledge, 2018, 144 pp., £120.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-138-22649-4)
PubDate: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac032
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai,
Hong Kong, and Tokyo-
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Pages: 141 - 144
Abstract: Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by NakanoLynne Y.Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2022, 254 pp., $85.00 cloth (ISBN 9780824889968)
PubDate: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac031
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Koyō kankei to shakaiteki fubyōdō: Sangyōteki shitizunshippu keisei
tenkai to shite no kōzō hendō (Employment Relations and Social
Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Development of
Industrial Citizenship)-
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Pages: 149 - 152
Abstract: Koyō kankei to shakaiteki fubyōdō: Sangyōteki shitizunshippu keisei tenkai to shite no kōzō hendō (Employment Relations and Social Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Development of Industrial Citizenship) by ImaiJunTokyo: Yuhikaku Publishing, 2021, 374 pp., ¥5,400 (cloth ISBN 978-4-641-17458-0)
PubDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac027
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture
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Pages: 153 - 155
Abstract: Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture by MaclachlanPatricia L.ShimizuKayIthaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, 235 pp., $59.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1501762123)
PubDate: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac030
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023)
- Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among
Singles in Japan-
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Pages: 3 - 26
Abstract: AbstractSingles—here understood as unmarried or never married individuals—are a growing subset of the Japanese population that has not received discrete attention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article addresses the ways in which the pandemic and its associated interventions—calls for social distancing, self-restraint, or the avoidance of the ‘3Cs’—affect singles’ (non)familial personal relationships and practices of intimacy (platonic and romantic), as well as perceptions of singlehood and ‘solo activities’ (sorokatsu). Based on exploratory analyses of data from an original cross-sectional online survey conducted in early 2021 (n = 4.000; unmarried residents of Japan aged 25–49 years), we show that while practices of intimacy are changing throughout the pandemic, the changes are less dramatic than we anticipated. In addition, changes are highly gendered and seem to support contemporary media and public discourse on how individuals are managing COVID-life and its concomitant uncertainties. We see two diachronic developments: an increase in social isolation and distress on the one hand, and an increase in acceptance of being single and doing ‘solo activities’ on the other. Our findings contribute to an understanding of the ways that singlehood, marital status, and extra-familial relationships are shaped, and shape the experiences of this pandemic.
PubDate: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac022
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate
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Pages: 27 - 46
Abstract: AbstractBooks containing hate speech against Koreans and the Chinese have become a common sight in Japan’s bookshops. The publication of ‘hate books’ has increased in tandem with the struggles of the publishing industry and the deterioration of Japan’s relations with South Korea and China. This article seeks to explain the causes of Japan’s hate book phenomenon, with a particular focus on books targeting Koreans. While South Korean researchers have mainly identified rising nationalism in Japan as the key factor, Japanese analysts label peculiarities in the Japanese publishing industry as the main cause of hate books. We argue that both these explanations are necessary but ultimately insufficient because they ignore each other’s key findings. We propose a synthesized explanation that takes account of both the role of nationalism in creating demand and the unique structure of the Japanese publishing industry, which tends to incentivize the supply of hate books. The article also shows that nationalism only translates into hate book demand in times of diplomatic crisis.
PubDate: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac021
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else' Local Policies and Policy
Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants-
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Pages: 77 - 92
Abstract: AbstractLocal governments at the prefectural and municipal levels across Japan have begun to allocate discretionary public funds to educate employers about the recruitment process for foreign Technical Training Internship Program (TITP) workers and subsidize the paperwork fees associated with it. This article investigates this phenomenon by drawing upon data collected from correspondence with municipal officials and analysis of policy documents, as well as a broader mailed survey of municipal governments conducted in 2019–2020. This article introduces two broad types of local-level policies towards TITP employers and workers, employment-supporting and social-supporting policies. Using a policy narrative framework, the article moves on to discuss how local governments position their policies to supplement the TITP migration regime. The language used reveals competing, sometimes seemingly contradictory, narratives of who TITP workers are and what they offer to local communities across Japan. These narratives are reflected in the different approaches to local policymaking regarding the TITP, from subsidizing local employers to creating cultural spaces and resources for TITP workers.
PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac023
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up
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Pages: 93 - 112
Abstract: AbstractThis article focuses on seed-stage start-up fundraising in the ‘village’ (mura), an assemblage of actors in Tokyo’s start-up scene characterised by first-time founders in their 20s or early 30s and their supporters. I analyse how efforts to secure funding unfold between founders and venture capitalists (VCs). Anthropological explorations of start-ups are rare, and my research is based on one of the first long-term fieldwork-based studies in a Japanese context. The material used in this article stems from 12 months of multi-sited fieldwork and 39 further semi-structured para-ethnographic interviews. Both founders and VCs stress the importance of embodied and affective pitch performances. Interlocutors invoke and describe such practices in-depth and separate them from ‘rational’ analysis. The overall focus on convincing performance seems to enforce particular founder role ideals that stress confident top–down communication styles rather than the negotiation of shortcomings or critical open discourse. This preference for confident top–down communication appears partly informed by the uncertainty within which start-ups and VCs act. The findings of this article suggest that seed-stage fundraising conventions in Tokyo reflect a preference for particular affective performance ideals, which extend beyond the economic analysis of the business case itself.
PubDate: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac017
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- China and Japan: Facing History
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Pages: 113 - 116
Abstract: China and Japan: Facing History by VogelEzra F.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, pp. 536, $39.95 (cloth ISBN 9780674916579)
PubDate: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac020
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
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Pages: 125 - 128
Abstract: Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW CampsKovnerSarahCambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, vi + 328 pp, $35.00 cloth (ISBN 9780674737617)
PubDate: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac024
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku
kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s
Defense Concept)-
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Pages: 129 - 132
Abstract: Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)YasuakiChijiwaTokyo: Chikura Shobō, 2021, 298 pp., ¥5,500 (ISBN 9784805112328)
PubDate: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac025
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni
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Pages: 133 - 136
Abstract: Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni (Constitutional Design of Government: To Think about ‘Constitutional Amendments’ in Japan), edited by KomamuraKeigoMachidori.SatoshiTokyo: Kōbundō, 2020, 405 pp., 3080¥ (ISBN 978-4-335-35831-9)
PubDate: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac018
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
- Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome
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Pages: 145 - 148
Abstract: Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome, by Castro-VàzquezGenaroAbingdon: Routledge, 2020, 214 pp., £120.00 (cloth ISBN 9780367340575)
PubDate: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyac019
Issue No: Vol. 26, No. 1 (2022)
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