Interdisciplinary journal dedicated to leading scholarship on modern and contemporary Japan, peer-reviewed by top scholars in the field. Based @dijtokyo.org
Contemporary Japan
#OpenAccess David Chiavacci examines the political economy of labor immigration across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He highlights how developmentalism, productivist welfare regimes, and shared growth lead to dual immigration systems favoring high-skilled workers doi.org/10.1080/1869...
Through pioneering research of underground wartime Chinese newspapers, writings of former labor activists, documents at the National Archives of Thailand & personal interviews, Katsuyuki Takahashi traces the activities of Japanese companies in Thailand during the Pacific War doi.org/10.1080/1869...
What is the role of documentary literature 記録文学 in narratives of Japan’s colonial war & military defeat? Sejin Jeong explores the relationships between individual memories, subjective narratives & collective history through the stories and receptions of 国境物語 and 流れる星は生きている doi.org/10.1080/1869...
Laura Dales & Nora Kottmann analyze the changing perceptions of being single in Japan and the rise of “sorokatsu” ソロ活. Using a large-scale survey, they trace the emergence of a "hyper-solo-society" & how the growing number of singles influence the meaning a normal adult life doi.org/10.1080/1869...
NEW CJ issue 37-2 incl articles on faith talk in political rhetoric @ernils.bsky.social, the afterlife of PMs (T. Tsuda), Korean intl school (K. Hirano), Buraku literacy movements (C. Fusari), elderly reemployment (K. Haga) & Takarazuka fandom (Z. Baraniak-Hirata) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...
Gracia Liu-Farrer offers a critical analysis of the “discourse of ‘no-immigration’ and of the “identity-binary of ‘Japanese’ versus ‘foreigner’”, and argues that “the normalization of exceptions and the acceptance of differences” is transforming Japan into an immigrant nation doi.org/10.1080/1869...
CJ's Special Issue 'Art & Regional Revitalization - Case Studies from Japan' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3... incl. research on art festivals, tourism, akiya & the global countryside is introduced in today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @tandfresearch.bsky.social zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...
Cornelia Reiher examines local government responses to international labor migration in rural Japan, highlighting how perceptions of foreign workers' roles in regional revitalization shape their (in)visibility and support amid population decline & labor shortages #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1869...
New Issue CJ38(1) available online! Includes 6 original research articles ranging from workplace diversity and pandemic governance to refugee representation in print media, war memory, and labor resistance under the Japanese empire @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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What is the relationship between whaling, heritage, tourism & community? Through ethnographic research, @aikerots.bsky.social examines festivals in 3 Japanese towns as case studies of whaling as a social imaginary and reveals how heritage-making is a future-oriented endeavor doi.org/10.1080/1869...
