OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Science Japan Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	34
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	10
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	9
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	9
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	8
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	7
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	7
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	5
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	4
Public support for governments in China and Japan during a global health crisis	4
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	3
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	3
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	3
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	3
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	2
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	2
Securing a place for death: social capital and Muslim migrants’ struggle for burial cemeteries in contemporary Japan	2
The COVID-19 crisis as a double-edged revealer: Japanese employees’ hope for change in corporate warrior culture and the gendered impediments to such change	2
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	2
Rethinking Locality in Japan	2
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	2
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	2
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	1
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	1
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	1

Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	1
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	1
Correction to: Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	1
Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni	1
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	1
Yorokonde Morau : the shared well-being experience of making others happy (and feeling happy because of it)	1
Education and Social Justice in Japan	1
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	1
The influence of offline and online local community engagement and collective efficacy on COVID-19 self-efficacy: a study of six prefectures in Japan	1
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	1
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	1
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	1
Memory, testimony, and activism: the politics of commemorating the massacre of Koreans after the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	0
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	0
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Attitudes on the entry ban in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Ryōiki o Koenai Minshushugi—Chihō Seiji ni okeru Kyōsō to Min’i (Fragmented Democracies: Competition and Legitimacy in Japanese Local Politics)	0
Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai	0
School memorials as sites of memory and the dynamics of remembrance after the Great East Japan Earthquake	0
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities , by Helena Hof. Bristol	0
Gakuryoku, shinri, katei kankyō no keizai bunseki: Zenkoku shōchūgakusei no tsuiseki chōsa kara miete kita mono (An Economic Analysis of Academic Ability, Non-cognitive Ability, and Family Background:	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan	0
Correction to: Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan	0
Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan	0
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	0
Base Towns: Local contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan, by Claudia Junghyun Kim	0
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan	0
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	0
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety	0
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	0
Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni	0
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train	0
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	0
47 Todōfuken no Chihō Jichi: ‘Shichōson e no Kengen Ijō’ ni miru Seido Unyō no Hikaku Kenkyū (Local Governance in the 47 Prefectures: Comparative Analysis of Institutional Operations in the Transfer o	0
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19	0
Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents	0
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	0
Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps	0
Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Dark Green Religion, trans-Pacific counterculture, and the ethno-environmental politics of Japanese Hippies on Suwanose Island and Amami Ōshima, 1965–1989	0

Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
How Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination policy shapes trust in governance: a relative deprivation approach	0
The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Policy change and national identification: the discursive institutionalism of Japan’s migrant admission policy	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as a multilateral negotiation	0
The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College	0
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality)	0
Toward an intersectional Burakuness: regional discontinuities in Japan’s Buraku-focused museums	0
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism	0
Perspectives on social inequality through employment in Japan	0
Koyō kankei to shakaiteki fubyōdō: Sangyōteki shitizunshippu keisei tenkai to shite no kōzō hendō (Employment Relations and Social Inequalities: Social Structural Changes Shaped by the Developm	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei	0
Does contact improve intergroup attitudes? Evidence from Japanese perceptions of Chinese and South Koreans	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	0
The Winner of the 2024 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Ideating University Reform in Japan	0
Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy	0
In Remembrance of Takashi Inoguchi	0
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	0
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō	0
Scars of the job market “ice-age”	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	0
What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy	0
Sengo Nihon no Anzen Hoshō: Nichibei Dōmei, Kenpō 9 jō kara NSC made (Japan’s Postwar National Security: From the US-Japan Alliance and Article 9 to the NSC)	0
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship	0
Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History)	0
Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19	0
Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan	0
Gendai Nihon no Shinbun to Seiji — Chihōshi, Zenkokushi to Yūkensha, Seijika (Newspapers and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Local Papers, National Papers, Voters, and Polit	0
Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations	0
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	0
Kyōkaisen no gakkōshi: Sengo nihon no gakkōka shakai no shūen to shūhen (Boundaries of Japanese Public Education: A History of Schooling Society and Its Borders)	0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan	0
Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma	0
ODA no Kokusai Seiji Keizai-Gaku–Sengonihon Gaikō to Taigai Enjo 1952–2022 (The International Political Economy of ODA—Postwar Japanese Diplomacy and Foreign Aid 1952-2022) by Hoshiro Hiroyuki	0
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan, by Akihiro Ogawa	0
Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy)	0
Nichibei Dōmei ni okeru Kyōdō Bōei Taisei no Keisei—Jōyaku Teiketsu kara ‘Nichibei Bōei Kyōryoku no tame no Shishin’ Sakutei made (Formation of a Defense Coordination Framework in the Japan-U.S. Allia	0
Kakusareta Shōtoku Taishi: Kingendai Nihon no gishi to okaruto bunka (Shōtoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan)	0
Between precarity and protest: Cambodian migrants and the failures of Japan’s TITP	0
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Nihon no safety net no kakusa—rōdō shijo no henyō to shakai hoshō (Inequality of the Safety Net in Japan—The Transformation of the Labour Market and Social Security)	0
Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics	0
A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press , by César Castellvi	0
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan	0
Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective	0
The Politics of Public Broadcasting in Britain and Japan: The BBC and NHK Compared	0
China and Japan: Facing History	0
The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	0
Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance	0
What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States	0
Josei Heishi to iu Nanmon: Jendā kara tou Sensō, Guntai no Shakaigaku (The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers: Sociology of War and the Military from a Gender Perspective)	0
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates	0
Popurizumu no Seiji Shakaigaku—Yūkensha no Shiji to Tōhyō Kōdō (A Political Sociology of Populism) by Matsutani Mitsuru. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2022, 268 pp., ¥4,4	0