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Social Science Japan Journal is a new forum for original scholarly papers on modern Japan. It publishes papers that cover Japan in a comparative perspective and papers that focus on international issues that affect Japan. All social science disciplines (economics, law, political science, history, sociology, and anthropology) are represented. All papers are refereed. The journal includes a book review section with substantial reviews of books on Japanese society, written in both English and Japanese. The journal occassionally publishes reviews of the current state of social science research on Japanese society in different countries.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Volume 6, Number 1, 1 April 2003
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Heisei Yakuza: Burst Bubble and Bomacrtaihomacr
pp. 1-18(18)
Author: Hill, Peter

Above the Law? Police Integrity in Japan
pp. 19-37(19)
Author: Johnson, David T.

Legislating for Care: A Comparative Analysis of Long-term Care Insurance Laws in Japan and Germany
pp. 39-56(18)
Author: Webb, Philippa

Memories of Pilots and Planes: World War II in Japanese Manga, 1957–1967
pp. 57-76(20)
Author: Nakar, Eldad

‘Gaining Confidence and Friendship’ in Aborigine Country: Diplomacy, Drinking, and Debauchery on Japan's Southern Frontier
pp. 77-96(20)
Author: Barclay, Paul D.

Recent German Research on Japanese Labor and Economic Institutions
pp. 97-104(8)
Author: Shire, Karen A.

Work-sharing: Serious Initiative, or Japan's Latest Economic Panacea?
pp. 105-111(7)
Author: Weathers, Charles

Fubyomacrdomacr Shakai Nihon—Sayonara Somacrchumacrryumacr (The Inegalitarian Society, Japan: Farewell to the Mass Middle Class), by Satomacr Toshiki. Tokyo: Chumacromacr Komacrron-sha, 2000, 208 pp., 660 yen (paperback ISBN 4-12-101537-1)
pp. 113-118(6)
Author: Mouer, Ross

Kaisomacrka Nihon to Kyomacriku Kiki: Fubyomacrdomacr Seisan kara Iyoku Kakusa (Insentibu Dibaido), Shakai e (Education in Crisis and Stratified Japan: From the Reproduction of Inequality to an ‘Incentive Divide’ Society), by Kariya Takehiko. Tokyo: Yushindomacr, 2001, 3,800 yen (hardcover, ISBN 4-8420-8525-8)
pp. 118-121(4)
Author: Aspinall, Robert

Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest, by Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii + 418 pp., £42.50/$70.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-521-56424-7), £15.95/$26.00 (paperback ISBN 0-521-66574-4). The Political Economy of the Environment: The Case of Japan, by Shigeto Tsuru. London: Athlone Press, 1999, viii + 280 pp., £47.50 (ISBN 0-485-11528-X)
pp. 121-124(4)
Author: Hall, Derek A.

Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Management, by Saori N. Katada. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2001, 296 pp., $49.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-472-11211-2)
pp. 124-126(3)
Author: Sayuri, Shirai

Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan, by Wesley Sasaki-Uemura. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, xiv + 293 pp., $56.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8248-2311-7), $27.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8248-2439-3)
pp. 127-130(4)
Author: Osiander, Anja

Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Japan: the Case of Kikokushijo, by Ching Lin Pang. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000, 337 pp., $127.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-7103-0651-2)
pp. 130-132(3)
Author: Befu, Harumi

Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan, by Hiroshi Komai. Trans. Jens Wilkinson. Melbourne: Pacific Press, 2001, xiv + 230 pp., $29.95 (paperback ISBN 1-876843-06-3)
pp. 132-135(4)
Author: Shipper, Apichai

The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chain Store, by Louella Matsunaga. London: Routledge, 2001, xiv + 209 pp., £55.00/$90.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-22975-8)
pp. 136-139(4)
Author: McCreery, John

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan, by Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, xxvi + 266 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-804-73561-1)
pp. 139-142(4)
Author: Kokyomacr, Murakami

Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood, 1925–1988: Hanayama, by John Mock. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1999, xiii + 232pp., $89.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-7734-7974-0)
pp. 143-146(4)
Author: Curtin, J. Sean

Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, by E. Taylor Atkins. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2001, xiv + 366 pp., $64.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-2710-4), $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-2721-X)
pp. 146-148(3)
Author: Mathews, Gordon

Gendai Nippon no Komacrporemacrto Gabanansu (Corporate Governance in Contemporary Japan), edited by Inagami Takeshi. Tokyo: Tomacryomacr Keizai Shinpomacrsha, 2000, 356 pp., 3,500 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-49-253085-1)
pp. 149-152(4)
Author: Ahmadjian, Christina L.

The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan, 1945–61: The Roles of Britain and Japan in South-East Asia, by Junko Tomaru. London: Macmillan, 2000, xiv + 317 pp., $65.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-333-74658-9)
pp. 152-155(4)
Author: Yoshiki, Kaneko

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919, by Frederick R. Dickinson. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999, xviii + 363 pp., $40.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-94655-3), $20.95 (paperback ISBN 0-674-00507-4, published 2001).
pp. 156-158(3)
Author: Krebs, Gerhard

Erratum
pp. 159-159(1)

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