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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	21
Factors Affecting Household Disaster Preparedness Among Foreign Residents in Japan	10
Nuclear Restart Politics: How the ‘Nuclear Village’ Lost Policy Implementation Power	10
Climate Change Policy: Can New Actors Affect Japan’s Policy-Making in the Paris Agreement Era?	8
Losing Steam: Why Does Japan Produce So Little Geothermal Power?	7
Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan	4
Introduction: Japan’s Energy Transition 10 Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	4
Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan’s Social Control	4
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	4
Japan Meets the Sharing Economy: Contending Frames	4
Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power	4
Breaking Iron Triangles: Beliefs and Interests in Japanese Renewable Energy Policy	3
Vertical and Horizontal Networks Revisited: Exploring Their Effects on Attitudes and Advocacy Toward Nuclear Energy	3
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship	3
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	3
Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered	3
The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area	3
Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth	2
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	2
Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19	1
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	1
Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations	1
Corporate Transfers for Dual-Career Couples: From Gendered Tenkin to Gender-Equal Negotiations?	1
Electoral Rules, Nomination Strategies, and Women’s Representation in Japan and Taiwan	1
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	1

The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	1
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	1
Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers	1
Education and Social Stratification in South Korea	1
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism	0
Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)	0
Rethinking Locality in Japan	0
Nihon no chihō seifu: 1700 jichitai no jitai to kadai (Japan’s Local Governments: The State and Challenges of 1700 Municipalities)	0
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	0
Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan	0
The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College	0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan	0
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	0
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	0
The Political History of Modern Japan	0
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	0
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	0
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea	0
Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment	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
Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma	0
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan	0
Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy	0
Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki	0
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	0
Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia	0
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe	0
Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century	0
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan	0
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	0
Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging 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
Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community	0
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Jinkō Mondai to Imin: Nihon no Jinkō - Kaisō Kōzoku wa Dō Kawaru ka (Population Problems and Immigration: How Is Japan’s Population and Social Structure Changing?)	0
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	0
Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms	0
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	0
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	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

Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933	0
Pachinko sangyōshi: shūen keizai kara kyodai shijo e (Pachinko Industry: From a Black Market to a Mass Market)	0
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	0
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities	0
Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar	0
Correction to: Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Ideating University Reform in Japan	0
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan	0
Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History)	0
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	0
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Living on the Streets in Japan: Homeless Women Break their Silence	0
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire	0
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	0
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	0
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	0
Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline	0
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	0
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War	0
Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	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
Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change	0
The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	0
Auf der Jagd nach der Sonne. Das journalistische Feld und die Atomkraft in Japan	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Okinawa heiwaron no ajenda: ikari wo chikara ni suru shiza to hōhō (An Agenda for Okinawan Peace Studies: Viewpoints and Methodologies for Transforming Anger into Power)	0
The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945	0
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism	0
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	0
Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei	0
Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?)	0
Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace	0
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	0
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
China and Japan: Facing History	0
The Self-Defense Forces and Postwar Politics in Japan	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	0
Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	0
The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia	0
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	0
Energy Transition in East Asia: A Social Science Perspective	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	0
Japanese Culture Through Videogames	0
Ideorogī to Nihon Seiji: Sedai de Kotonaru Hoshu to Kakushin (Generational Gap in Japanese Politics: A Longitudinal Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour)	0
Nihon no makuro keizai seisaku: mijuku na minshu seiji no kiketsu (Japan’s Macroeconomic Policies: The Consequences of Immature Democratic Politics)	0
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	0
The Winner of the 2020 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy	0
Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters	0
The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire	0
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept	0
The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet	0