{"title":"The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize","authors":"K. McElwain","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"1 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139438136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism","authors":"Christopher Tso","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139168546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective","authors":"Daniel P Aldrich","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139250866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture","authors":"Kazunori Kawamura","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":" 580","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135185970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition","authors":"Yoshimichi YUI","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad018","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition Get access Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition by Yosuke Hirayama and Misa IzuharaAbingdon: Routledge, 2018, 184 pp., £36.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-367-33192-4) Yoshimichi YUI Yoshimichi YUI Hiroshima University, Japan yyui@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, jyad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad018 Published: 04 November 2023","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"50 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135775228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Locality in Japan","authors":"Stephanie Assmann","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad015","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Rethinking Locality in Japan Get access Rethinking Locality in Japanedited by Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno JentzschLondon and New York: Routledge, 2021, 306 pp., £34.99 paper (ISBN 9780367469481) Stephanie Assmann Stephanie Assmann University of Hyogo stephanie.assmann.terada@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, jyad015, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad015 Published: 28 September 2023","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field","authors":"Glenda S ROBERTS, Noriko FUJITA","doi":"10.1093/ssjj/jyad016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyad016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite rapid demographic decline, until recently, low-skilled migrant workers have been welcomed only through ‘side-doors’ such as technical interns (TITP). Yet pressure for change comes from two sides: the moral critique of the ‘side-door’ scheme, and the growing economic pressures of a dwindling labor force. In 2018 Japan put in place a short-term bona-fide labor scheme (Specified Skilled Worker; hereafter, SSW) in fields previously largely inaccessible to foreign labor. In combination with the TITP schemes, these workers are allowed to stay longer. But what do these changes mean, how do the farmer-employers see them, and will the SSW lead to a sustainable farm labor supply going forward? We explore stakeholders’ views of the current schemes and their opinions on how low-skilled labor migration should proceed in agriculture. Businesses are desperate for labor, but not at any cost. Under SSW, employers are being asked to change the ways they envision and treat migrant labor. The tensions between their expectations and the realities on the ground reflect the contradictions that Japan’s migration policies inherit, based in the bureaucratic fiction that only ‘skilled’ labor is necessary. Data for this paper come from qualitative interviews conducted from 2018 to 2022 in Kyoto, Aichi, and Tokyo.","PeriodicalId":44320,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Japan Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}