Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2385364
Jake Northey
{"title":"Hey! Say Ishin: Ōmae Ken’ichi’s and Hashimoto Tōru’s policy entrepreneurship and the neoliberal reorientation of contemporary Ishin politics","authors":"Jake Northey","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2385364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2385364","url":null,"abstract":"This article reevaluates contemporary Ishin by comparing two policy entrepreneurs – managerialist guru Ōmae Ken’Ichi, and former Osaka governor Hashimoto Tōru. It argues that Ōmae’s and Hashimoto’s...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969397","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2368863
Michael D. Smith
{"title":"Shakaijin, shadow education, & the entrepreneurial self: fabricating personhood in neoliberal Japan","authors":"Michael D. Smith","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2368863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2368863","url":null,"abstract":"Under the neoliberal vision for free-market capitalism, discourses validating meritocratic competition reproduce homo œconomicus, narrowly self-interested human capital seeking to maximise its econ...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508441","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2366851
Yi Deng
{"title":"Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden, Part Two—His Master’s Blade","authors":"Yi Deng","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2366851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2366851","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Japan Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508442","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2358022
Zack Jacob Gray
{"title":"The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan","authors":"Zack Jacob Gray","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2358022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2358022","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Japan Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508443","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2346715
E.Taylor Atkins
{"title":"Tokyo Jazz Joints","authors":"E.Taylor Atkins","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2346715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2346715","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Japan Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837510","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2332173
Jiajun Liang
{"title":"Tearing through the screen: diegetic credits, dialogic media, and fictional reality in Kon Satoshi’s Paprika","authors":"Jiajun Liang","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2332173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2332173","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an examination of Japanese anime director Kon Satoshi’s artistic style, with a particular focus on his presentation of the title credits, by tracing his career as an internation...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140572456","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2332176
Sonny Bardot, Yoshie Moriki
{"title":"The commodification of romance in relation to fertility rate in Japan: a case study in Tokunoshima","authors":"Sonny Bardot, Yoshie Moriki","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2332176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2332176","url":null,"abstract":"Japan’s low fertility rate has been a concern for over thirty years. Despite a vast literature on the topic, numerous policies and measures to boost the country’s fertility rate, and the will of Ja...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140197405","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2024.2311424
Lauren Constance
{"title":"Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, film, and transnational politics","authors":"Lauren Constance","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2024.2311424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2311424","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Japan Forum (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755838","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2285746
Adrienne Sala, Nobuo Haruna, Gilles Campagnolo
{"title":"External ideas or traditional values? A reappraisal of Japanese ‘neoliberal’ reforms","authors":"Adrienne Sala, Nobuo Haruna, Gilles Campagnolo","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2023.2285746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2023.2285746","url":null,"abstract":"In Japan, the so-called neoliberal-inspired transition generally refers to an ideological agenda. However, one should distinguish between neoliberal reforms carried out in accordance with a politic...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138746024","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}
Japan ForumPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2268089
Aoife Wilkinson, David Chapman
{"title":"Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism","authors":"Aoife Wilkinson, David Chapman","doi":"10.1080/09555803.2023.2268089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2023.2268089","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we unpack how ideologies of ethnonationalism and multiculturalism in the Australian and Japanese contexts present tensions in self-identity and national belonging for youth of mixe...","PeriodicalId":44495,"journal":{"name":"Japan Forum","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517661","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}