Social Science Japan Journal
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Based at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science, SSJJ publishes high-quality, refereed scholarly articles on modern Japan. For more information on how to submit your research visit us at https://academic.oup.com/ssjj.
With immigration measures being a key focus of discussion in Japan, take a look at our special section on the 2018 immigration reform. Guest-edited by David Chiavacci from University of Zurich, it features articles by Naoto Higuchi, David Chiavacci & Sachi Takaya: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/2...
Volume 28 Issue 1 | Social Science Japan Journal | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Publishes scholarly articles on modern Japan covering all social sciences, including studies of Japan?s internationa...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
With immigration measures being a key focus of discussion in Japan, take a look at our special section on the 2018 immigration reform. Guest-edited by David Chiavacci from University of Zurich, it features articles by Naoto Higuchi, David Chiavacci & Sachi Takaya: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/2...
In his new review essay, Kaoru Sonoda examines how employment inequality in Japan is socially perceived and institutionally reinforced, urging a critical perspective on how such disparities are justified and normalized. Read the article here: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
In his new review essay, Kaoru Sonoda examines how employment inequality in Japan is socially perceived and institutionally reinforced, urging a critical perspective on how such disparities are justified and normalized. Read the article here: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
How did #Japan respond to #COVID-19?
Discover more in our Virtual Special Issue on the pandemic’s political and social impact: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/c...
Discover more in our Virtual Special Issue on the pandemic’s political and social impact: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/c...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
How did #Japan respond to #COVID-19?
Discover more in our Virtual Special Issue on the pandemic’s political and social impact: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/c...
Discover more in our Virtual Special Issue on the pandemic’s political and social impact: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/c...
What drives public support during global health crises?
Yida Zhai compares Japan and China’s COVID-19 responses, showing how state performance and economic aid shape approval—while revealing the fragility of China’s reliance on material support.
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Yida Zhai compares Japan and China’s COVID-19 responses, showing how state performance and economic aid shape approval—while revealing the fragility of China’s reliance on material support.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What drives public support during global health crises?
Yida Zhai compares Japan and China’s COVID-19 responses, showing how state performance and economic aid shape approval—while revealing the fragility of China’s reliance on material support.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
Yida Zhai compares Japan and China’s COVID-19 responses, showing how state performance and economic aid shape approval—while revealing the fragility of China’s reliance on material support.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
In his new paper, Till Knaudt traces the history of The Tribes, a hippie commune on Suwanose Island, revealing its links to the Californian Beat scene, West Coast Zen, the Japanese New Left, and environmental activism in Japan: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
Dark Green Religion, trans-Pacific counterculture, and the ethno-environmental politics of Japanese Hippies on Suwanose Island and Amami Ōshima, 1965–1989
Abstract. In the 1970s, the political theory of the Japanese New Left merged with the countercultural and religious practices of the Japanese hippie moveme
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In his new paper, Till Knaudt traces the history of The Tribes, a hippie commune on Suwanose Island, revealing its links to the Californian Beat scene, West Coast Zen, the Japanese New Left, and environmental activism in Japan: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
In their new article, Julia Gerster and Akihiro Shibayama of Tohoku University provide a detailed analysis of the intricate local dynamics surrounding the preservation of schools as memorial sites for the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake #OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
School memorials as sites of memory and the dynamics of remembrance after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Abstract. Across the world, memorial museums commemorate losses from wars and other traumatic events, often after years or decades of discussion. In contra
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October 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
In their new article, Julia Gerster and Akihiro Shibayama of Tohoku University provide a detailed analysis of the intricate local dynamics surrounding the preservation of schools as memorial sites for the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake #OpenAccess: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
In light of the Muslim community’s emergence as a fast-growing ethnic minority in contemporary Japan, Shinji Kojima and Derrace McCallum—in their new paper—examine the challenges Muslim migrants face in securing burial cemeteries in Japan.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
In light of the Muslim community’s emergence as a fast-growing ethnic minority in contemporary Japan, Shinji Kojima and Derrace McCallum—in their new paper—examine the challenges Muslim migrants face in securing burial cemeteries in Japan.
Read the full paper here: lnkd.in/eMy5Wh87
Read the full paper here: lnkd.in/eMy5Wh87
In our summer issue, Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and Dionyssios Askitis offer a new understanding of well-being in Japan. 'Yorokonde morau', which is the experience of shared well-being that comes from making others happy. The paper is available via open access: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
Yorokonde Morau: the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it)
Abstract. This paper introduces yorokonde morau (YM), a novel concept of well-being originating from lay discourse on happiness in Japan. YM describes the
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July 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In our summer issue, Sebastian Polak-Rottmann and Dionyssios Askitis offer a new understanding of well-being in Japan. 'Yorokonde morau', which is the experience of shared well-being that comes from making others happy. The paper is available via open access: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
Newly published, this paper by Paul Christensen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Charles Crabtree and Charles McClean looks at the implementation of the SDGs in Japan: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps
Abstract. In this article, we consider how efforts by the Japanese government and private sector to make the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
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July 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Newly published, this paper by Paul Christensen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Charles Crabtree and Charles McClean looks at the implementation of the SDGs in Japan: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
In our new issue, Norifumi Takeishi examines the structure of the naval officer corps, offering new historical insights into the development of Japan’s military and its path toward war. The article is #Open Access: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
#JapaneseHistory #MilitaryStudies
#JapaneseHistory #MilitaryStudies
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations
Abstract. For Japan, a latecomer maritime nation, establishing a navy and training its officers were both necessary and obvious tasks. This study examines
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April 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In our new issue, Norifumi Takeishi examines the structure of the naval officer corps, offering new historical insights into the development of Japan’s military and its path toward war. The article is #Open Access: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
#JapaneseHistory #MilitaryStudies
#JapaneseHistory #MilitaryStudies
We are pleased to announce that the new issue of SSJJ is now available. This issue includes eleven articles and a special section on Japan’s 2018 immigration reform, guest-edited by David Chiavacci. Read the issue: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/2...
#JapaneseStudies #Migration
#JapaneseStudies #Migration
Volume 28 Issue 1 | Social Science Japan Journal | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Publishes scholarly articles on modern Japan covering all social sciences, including studies of Japan?s internationa...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
We are pleased to announce that the new issue of SSJJ is now available. This issue includes eleven articles and a special section on Japan’s 2018 immigration reform, guest-edited by David Chiavacci. Read the issue: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/2...
#JapaneseStudies #Migration
#JapaneseStudies #Migration
What changed after Japan’s 2018 immigration reform? Our winter issue, guest-edited by David Chiavacci, explores this in a special section with papers by Naoto Higuchi, David Chiavacci, and Sachi Takaya. Read more: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue
Issues | Social Science Japan Journal | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Publishes scholarly articles on modern Japan covering all social sciences, including studies of Japan?s internationa...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
What changed after Japan’s 2018 immigration reform? Our winter issue, guest-edited by David Chiavacci, explores this in a special section with papers by Naoto Higuchi, David Chiavacci, and Sachi Takaya. Read more: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue
Did you know? The Social Science Japan Journal also accepts submissions in Japanese! Find out how to submit your research here: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/G...
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Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) is listed in Clarivate Analytics' internationally renowned Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and is incorporated in the
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March 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Did you know? The Social Science Japan Journal also accepts submissions in Japanese! Find out how to submit your research here: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/G...
Find out why you should publish your research on contemporary Japan with SSJJ: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/w....
Publishing with Social Science Japan Journal
Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) publishes high-quality, refereed scholarly articles on modern Japan. All social science disciplines (anthropology, economics
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March 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Find out why you should publish your research on contemporary Japan with SSJJ: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/w....
New Paper: Hilary Holbrow and Hao Liang’s latest study, “Cultural Fluency Required? Interrogating Ethnocentrism in the Employment of White-Collar Asian Migrants in Japan,” is now available: academic.oup.com/ssjj/advance...
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan
Abstract. Scholars contend that Japanese firms hold white-collar foreign workers to a high bar for assimilation. This model of the ethnocentric firm sugges
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January 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
New Paper: Hilary Holbrow and Hao Liang’s latest study, “Cultural Fluency Required? Interrogating Ethnocentrism in the Employment of White-Collar Asian Migrants in Japan,” is now available: academic.oup.com/ssjj/advance...
The ISS/Oxford Prize for Modern Japanese Studies is awarded by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, and is awarded to the author of the best article published each year in Social Science Japan Journal: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/p...
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The ISS/Oxford Prize for Modern Japanese Studies is awarded by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo,
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December 31, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The ISS/Oxford Prize for Modern Japanese Studies is awarded by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, and is awarded to the author of the best article published each year in Social Science Japan Journal: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/p...
SSJJでは日本語論文の投稿も可能です。採用された日本語の論文は、こちらで英語に翻訳して出版します。みんなさんの投稿をお待ちしてします！投稿の詳細は、https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/General_Instructionsをご参照下さい。
December 31, 2024 at 3:00 AM
SSJJでは日本語論文の投稿も可能です。採用された日本語の論文は、こちらで英語に翻訳して出版します。みんなさんの投稿をお待ちしてします！投稿の詳細は、https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/General_Instructionsをご参照下さい。
Submit your work to Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) in English or Japanese and share your research on Japan with a global audience. Discover why SSJJ is the right platform for your research with Oxford Journals: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/w... 📝🌏 #SSJJ #AcademicPublishing
Publishing with Social Science Japan Journal
Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) publishes high-quality, refereed scholarly articles on modern Japan. All social science disciplines (anthropology, economics
academic.oup.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Submit your work to Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) in English or Japanese and share your research on Japan with a global audience. Discover why SSJJ is the right platform for your research with Oxford Journals: academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/w... 📝🌏 #SSJJ #AcademicPublishing