Japanese Journal of Sociology最新文献

{"title":"Generalized Trust and Support for Immigrant Rights in Japan: Examining the Moderating Role of Conservative Nationalism","authors":"Guangyu Liang","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the role of generalized trust in shaping anti-immigrant attitudes and support for immigrant rights, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of conservative nationalism. We argue that higher levels of generalized trust reduce hostility toward immigrants and foster support for their rights, but that the strength of these effects depends on conservative nationalism. Drawing on data from the Public Opinion Poll on Internationalization and Citizens' Political Participation in 2017, we employ regression analysis to test these hypotheses. The results show that generalized trust is strongly associated with lower anti-immigrant attitudes and greater support for immigrant rights. While conservative nationalism does not condition the relationship between generalized trust and anti-immigrant attitudes, it significantly moderates the relationship between generalized trust and support for immigrant rights: even among individuals with equal levels of generalized trust, those who score higher on conservative nationalism show significantly less support for immigrant rights. These findings underscore the universal relevance of generalized trust as a mechanism for fostering inclusion, even in an ethnically homogeneous society such as Japan, while also highlighting the constraining role of value orientations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the Trajectories of Sociology in Japan and Korea: A Comparative Analysis of JSR and KJS, First Issue to 2024","authors":"JiYoung Kim","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the developmental trajectories of the Japan Sociological Society (JSS) and the Korean Sociological Association (KSA) from historical and thematic perspectives. To this end, this research analyzes the titles of articles published in each society's flagship journals—the <i>Japanese Sociological Review</i> (<i>JSR</i>) and the <i>Korean Journal of Sociology</i> (<i>KJS</i>)—from their inception through 2024. The findings reveal distinct organizational and historical differences: Japan has accumulated a tradition of locally grounded empirical research since the 1950s, whereas in Korea, the infrastructure for research on regional and social issues was only fully established after the 1980s. Thematically, the <i>JSR</i> has expanded its research scope from rural and community studies to urban issues and, more recently, to global issues. Meanwhile, the <i>KJS</i> has evolved from an early focus on family studies to reflect rapidly changing social structures, including labor, multiculturalism, and informatization. Although direct scholarly exchange between the two journals remains limited, accounting for approximately 0.7% of total publications, the necessity for comparative research is growing due to shared social challenges, such as demographic shifts and global crises. This study suggests the necessity for institutional support and the revitalization of English-language journals to transcend domestic-centered research and foster sustained intellectual collaboration and a broader comparative sociological perspective between the two nations.</p>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147667993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in the Aftermath of Algorithmic Modernity: Some Key Contributions and Open Issues in Japanese Sociology","authors":"Anthony Elliott","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70004","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;As the great wave of AI breaks across the world, emerging automated technology creeps more and more into the fabric of our lives. From personal virtual assistants and chatbots to self-driving vehicles and telerobotics, AI is now threaded into large tracts of everyday life, and increasingly reshapes society and the economy. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, believes that AI ushers into existence a “fourth industrial revolution.” The first profound industrial revolution was steam-powered, the second electrical, the third the arrival of the computer age, and Schwab considers today's AI revolution “unlike anything humankind has experienced before.” AI is not so much an advancement of technology, but rather the &lt;i&gt;metamorphosis&lt;/i&gt; of all technology (Schwab &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what, exactly, is “revolutionary” about AI? To begin with, politics changes dramatically as a consequence of AI. Technological change and how to achieve digital literacy across society, it could be argued, are now the name of the game in key areas of politics. The automation of jobs is the most debated of them all, but others include self-driving cars, sex robots, socially-assistive robotics, killer drones, and many other areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In many respects, it is a new agenda, at least in terms of public policy. The traditional welfare state, for example, was very much based providing remedies to the fallout from problems once they had happened—if you lose your job, the state will provide benefits until you find a new one. Today, we live in a very different world. We live in a time where robots move boxes in factories as well as conduct shelf auditing in supermarkets, and where complex algorithms complete tax returns and trade on financial markets. The consequences of our increasingly automated global world involve a shattering of political orthodoxies. We have to be much more interventionist, and craft policy thinking to cope with the unexpected, unanticipated shifts stemming from the digital revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another major consequence of the AI revolution is that our entire parameters of risk and opportunity radically change. Complex systems such as machine learning and advanced robotics are characterized by unpredictability, uncertainty, zigzags, and reversals. Policy attempts aimed at coping with complex technological systems often produce unintended consequences, revealing or generating other issues or problems, and other solutions or synergies in turn emerge in response to such interdependencies between adaptive systems. This has major ramifications for nation-states, which not only exist in systemic relations with other nation-states but also have now to cope with the spread of artificial intelligence and its global offshoots, including offshoring, outsourcing, reshoring, and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Japan, like other advanced countries, has had to deal with these challenging technological developments and oftentimes disruptive consequences accompanying th","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147637080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sociology of Immigration: A New Research Field for the New Immigration Country Japan","authors":"David Chiavacci","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Japan is a new country of immigration. While earlier migration research mentioned it, if at all, only as a non-immigration country and a prime example of a negative case, Japan has seen new and significant immigration flows since the late 1980s. Since the major immigration reform of 2018, this new immigration has gained additional momentum, and in the most recent national elections since 2024, immigration has also become a central issue on Japan's political agenda. This transformation into an immigration country and its politicization represent one of the most important aspects of social change in contemporary Japan and will shape the society in its future development as well. As could be expected, parallel to this transformation, immigration research on Japan has emerged as a new field of study in sociology and is gaining increasing momentum. This article discusses several important lines of development and challenges in this new field of research and examines the current state of scholarship. In addition, it proposes new possible approaches and topics for future research that have not yet been sufficiently explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family Strategy in Childcare: Intergenerational Negotiation Over Return Migration in the Rural–Urban Migrant Family in China","authors":"Guo Xinran","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Childcare responsibilities for left-behind children have been identified as a significant factor motivating rural–urban migrants to undertake return migration in China. While previous research has examined the return migration of migrant grandparents and mothers separately, an intergenerational perspective remains lacking in explaining why they return and how (grand)childcare-related return decisions are negotiated over time. Adopting a life course approach, this study identifies three patterns of intergenerational return negotiation: relay-style return, mother-dominated return, and grandparent-dominated return by analyzing negotiation processes among 27 grandparent-mother dyads. The study reveals that return migration, as a family strategy in (grand)childcare within rural–urban migrant families, is shaped by the interplay of macrostructural constraints from the <i>hukou</i> system and post-pandemic economic adjustments, intergenerational interactions, and individual early-life experiences. By highlighting the adverse early-life experiences of family separation as key drivers of return migration among grandparents and mothers, this study challenges perspectives that view return migration as a passive response to economic or urbanization failure and calls for policy actions to strengthen the social welfare for rural–urban migrants and migrant children in China.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Demography of Remarriage in Japan. By James M. Raymo, Erika Teramoto, Shohei Yoda, Miho Iwasawa, and Setsuya Fukuda, Singapore: Springer, 2024. 80 pp. JPY 8556 (paperback). ISBN: 978-9-81-974897-6.","authors":"Tomohiro Saito","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145941634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Japan's “Top Global University Project” on Study Abroad Uptake and Social Inequalities Therein: A Multilevel Approach","authors":"Steve R. Entrich","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.12185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In an attempt to internationalize higher education to keep up with global standards, in 2014, Japanese policymakers launched their most significant program yet, the “Top Global University Project” (TGUP). In the following, the number of Japanese students spending part of their studies abroad significantly increased. However, funding was provided to very few selected universities (37 of 781 universities in 2014) implying that opportunities to study abroad differ notably across TGUP and non-TGUP funded universities and hence major differences in participation rates across these universities are likely. Furthermore, past research showed that students from families with advantaged socioeconomic status (SES) are generally more likely to study abroad than lower-SES students in numerous countries including Japan. It remains unclear whether the implementation of state programs such as TGUP may reduce social inequalities or exacerbate them. We examine both issues using data from three iterations of the largely unexploited Japan Campus Life Data (<i>N</i> = 41 654 students nested in <i>N</i> = 51 universities). Results from our multi-level trend analysis indicate that (1) TGUP funded universities show higher study abroad participation among its students, but no steeper growth rates than universities without TGUP funding; and (2) the SES-gap in the likelihood of studying abroad of students at TGUP universities significantly increased from 2013 to 2017. Our results indicate that the TGUP falls short of expectations in terms of growth in study abroad participation, while at the same time horizontal inequalities in study abroad seem to have widened at TGUP-funded universities.</p>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.12185","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Physical and Social Infrastructures of Women-Led Solidarity Practices in Japanese Cities","authors":"Meriç Kırmızı","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.12184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12184","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper focuses on the concept of urban solidarity as civic activism and suggests ways of thinking about it in relation to the material and social infrastructures of the city, based on fieldwork in Japan. The paper first summarizes the literature on urban solidarity and other related concepts as alternatives to capitalist urban development and austerity urbanism, and examines the development of civil society in Japan and its different trajectory from other developed countries. It then seeks to answer the question of when urban solidarity, as exemplified by the efforts of Japanese women social entrepreneurs who have been studied through participant observation since 2013 and through twenty in-depth interviews conducted in Saitama, Osaka, and Tokyo in the spring of 2023, is likely to emerge. The study's findings are interpreted through the lens of the material and social infrastructures of urban solidarity. The study concludes that social entrepreneurs concerned with the growing social problems of Japanese society continue their determined efforts against the individualization or loneliness of urban life and the privatization of urban spaces, despite the hardening of conditions and challenges in terms of access to the physical and social infrastructures that are fundamental to the materialities and relations of urban solidarity. Women-led urban solidarity in postrecession Japan, as explored in this paper, emerges in multiple forms in a different context from the postcrisis and migratory urban environments in the Western examples, making it an interesting case to explore in more detail.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Correlates of Social Capital Access Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Japan","authors":"Adam O. Hill,&nbsp;Leah Ruppanner,&nbsp;Gregory Armstrong,&nbsp;Lise Lafferty,&nbsp;Benjamin Bavinton,&nbsp;Stuart Gilmour,&nbsp;Adam Bourne,&nbsp;Natalie Amos,&nbsp;Noriyo Kaneko","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.12183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Significant health disparities exist between gay and bisexual men (GBM) and the general population in Japan and internationally. Social capital is recognized as a key factor for positive health and well-being outcomes, including HIV prevention behaviors, among GBM. However, limited research examines how the sexual orientation of alters (i.e., possessors of resources within social capital networks) impacts access to these resources. In this study, a cross-sectional online survey of 1564 gay and bisexual men in Tokyo was conducted to investigate how social capital access varies by GBM and heterosexual alters, independent of socioeconomic factors. Multivariable logistic regression indicated that access to heterosexual social capital was positively correlated with younger age, higher education, full-time employment, good self-rated health, and bisexual behavior. In contrast, gay social capital access was positively associated with being out to close friends, identifying as gay, and attending gay venues, and negatively associated with student status, living outside central Tokyo, bisexual behavior, and using gay mobile apps predominantly for sex. These findings highlight differences in the distribution and determinants of gay versus heterosexual social capital among GBM in Greater Tokyo. To close health disparities for Tokyo GBM, policy interventions should consider groups deprived of gay social capital, such as those who avoid gay venues, live outside central Tokyo, or engage in bisexual behaviors, as these individuals may benefit most from targeted support.</p>","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.12183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146007504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Issue Information - IFA","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ijjs.12182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29652,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sociology","volume":"34 1","pages":"255-256"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijjs.12182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}