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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	31
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	9
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	6
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding	6
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	6
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	5
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	4
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	4
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	4
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	3
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	3
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	3
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	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
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
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	2
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan	2
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	2
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	1
Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered	1
Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy	1
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	1
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	1
Rethinking Locality in Japan	1
Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni	1

Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	1
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	1
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War	1
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	1
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
The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	0
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	0
Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy	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
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train	0
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō	0
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan	0
The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination	0
Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as a multilateral negotiation	0
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War	0
Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change	0
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire	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
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
Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	0
Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	0
Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism	0
The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area	0
Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni	0
The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College	0
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality)	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
What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy	0
The Winner of the 2024 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Electoral Rules, Nomination Strategies, and Women’s Representation in Japan and Taiwan	0
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety	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
Scars of the job market “ice-age”	0
Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept	0
Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers	0
Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai	0
The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	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
Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment	0
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan	0
The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945	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
Education and Social Stratification in South Korea	0
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	0
The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19	0
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	0
Toward an intersectional Burakuness: regional discontinuities in Japan’s Buraku-focused museums	0
Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates	0
Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	0
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	0
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations	0
Kakusareta Shōtoku Taishi: Kingendai Nihon no gishi to okaruto bunka (Shōtoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan)	0
Ryōiki o Koenai Minshushugi—Chihō Seiji ni okeru Kyōsō to Min’i (Fragmented Democracies: Competition and Legitimacy in Japanese Local Politics)	0
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire	0
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	0
Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan	0
Correction to: Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan	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
Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents	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
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective	0
Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki	0
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	0
Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	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
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	0
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan	0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan	0
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds	0
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship	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
Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma	0
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe	0
Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	0
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	0
China and Japan: Facing History	0
Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations	0
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities	0
Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics	0
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	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
Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power	0
Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment	0
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	0
Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
Education and Social Justice in Japan	0
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific	0
Does contact improve intergroup attitudes? Evidence from Japanese perceptions of Chinese and South Koreans	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	0
The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
In Remembrance of Takashi Inoguchi	0
Ideating University Reform in Japan	0
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism	0