Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2220223
E. Porcu
{"title":"Kyoto’s Renaissance: Ancient Capital for Modern Japan","authors":"E. Porcu","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2220223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2220223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45807532","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2218015
Taku Tamaki
{"title":"Railways as Japanese identity: Riding between confidence and inexperience","authors":"Taku Tamaki","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2218015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2218015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43758979","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2206339
D. Giustini
{"title":"Digital work across the divide: Japan’s platform economy and labour market dualisation","authors":"D. Giustini","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2206339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2206339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46947665","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2214480
Jincao Wang
{"title":"Newspaper reports and the peaceful use of nuclear power from 1945 to 1963: an analysis of Japan’s Asahi and Yomiuri Shimbun","authors":"Jincao Wang","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2214480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2214480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47003352","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2208400
Barbara Greene
{"title":"A subaltern civil war: Precariat in-Fighting in Murakami Ryu’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era","authors":"Barbara Greene","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2208400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2208400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367689","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2208399
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Aidana Bolatbekkyzy
{"title":"Writing back to the Capitalocene: Radioactive foodscapes in Japan’s Post-3/11 literature","authors":"Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Aidana Bolatbekkyzy","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2208399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2208399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45803504","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2191478
K. Hijino
{"title":"The politics of depopulation in Japanese municipalities: Ideas and underlying ideologies","authors":"K. Hijino","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2191478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2191478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41635962","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2175425
Jane Crawford Munro
{"title":"What is the true impact of an apology?","authors":"Jane Crawford Munro","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2175425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2175425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44568565","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2168841
Silvia Croydon
{"title":"Politics of inclusive consultation?: How the voices of disabled people’s rights and feminist campaigners prevailed in the debate on new eugenics in Japan","authors":"Silvia Croydon","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2168841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2168841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42036663","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}
Contemporary JapanPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2023.2171845
Jonathan Lewis
{"title":"Online political communication about the Tokyo Olympics","authors":"Jonathan Lewis","doi":"10.1080/18692729.2023.2171845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2023.2171845","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37204,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Japan","volume":"35 1","pages":"35 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41846525","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}