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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	37
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	12
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	12
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	8
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	7
Public support for governments in China and Japan during a global health crisis	7
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	5
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
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	4
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	4
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	4
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	4
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	4
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	4
Rethinking Locality in Japan	3
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	3
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	3
The first alumni donation in 1880s Japan: a cliometric analysis of social image and the open-academic record system	3
Neighborhood participation and foreign resident life satisfaction in Japan	3
The influence of offline and online local community engagement and collective efficacy on COVID-19 self-efficacy: a study of six prefectures in Japan	2
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	2
Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni	2
Securing a place for death: social capital and Muslim migrants’ struggle for burial cemeteries in contemporary Japan	2
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	2
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	2

Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	2
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	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
Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	1
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	1
Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality)	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
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	1
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
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	0
Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai	0
Ryōiki o Koenai Minshushugi—Chihō Seiji ni okeru Kyōsō to Min’i (Fragmented Democracies: Competition and Legitimacy in Japanese Local Politics)	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as a multilateral negotiation	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
(No) Sex in Japan: A Sociology of Sexlessness in Intimate Relationships , by Alice Pacher	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
Does contact improve intergroup attitudes? Evidence from Japanese perceptions of Chinese and South Koreans	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Base Towns: Local contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan, by Claudia Junghyun Kim	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	0
Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy	0
The Winner of the 2024 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Ideating University Reform in Japan	0
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train	0
Residential inequality and social class perceptions: a case study of the Tokyo metropolitan area	0
What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States	0
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	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
The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19	0
Not just unequal, but unfair? Perceived economic inequality, regional disparities, and party support in Japan	0
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan	0
Memory, testimony, and activism: the politics of commemorating the massacre of Koreans after the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake	0
Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment	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
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	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
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	0
Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	0

Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan, by Akihiro Ogawa	0
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
School memorials as sites of memory and the dynamics of remembrance after the Great East Japan Earthquake	0
Scars of the job market “ice-age”	0
Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy)	0
Between precarity and protest: Cambodian migrants and the failures of Japan’s TITP	0
Jenseits von Nation und Imperium: Interaktionen koreanischer Studierender und japanischer Protestanten (1880–1923) by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	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
Extracting ideological dimensions from legislative speeches in the Japanese Diet	0
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	0
Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance , by Peter K. Frost	0
Correction to: Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan	0
A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press , by César Castellvi	0
In Remembrance of Takashi Inoguchi	0
Dark Green Religion, trans-Pacific counterculture, and the ethno-environmental politics of Japanese Hippies on Suwanose Island and Amami Ōshima, 1965–1989	0
Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19	0
Kakusareta Shōtoku Taishi: Kingendai Nihon no gishi to okaruto bunka (Shōtoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan)	0
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	0
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	0
Perspectives on social inequality through employment in Japan	0
Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates	0
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents	0
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities , by Helena Hof. Bristol	0
Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Policy change and national identification: the discursive institutionalism of Japan’s migrant admission policy	0
Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics	0
Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations	0
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
Attitudes on the entry ban in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	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
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
The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism , by Yoshikuni Igarashi	0
Toward an intersectional Burakuness: regional discontinuities in Japan’s Buraku-focused museums	0
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games, by Ben Whaley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023, 186 pp., $19.96 (ISBN 9780472056149).	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
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement , by Emma Dalton and Caroline Norma	0
The silent majority and the power of social constructs: how the Kitagawa scandal perpetuated sexual violence	0
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō	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
The Politics of Public Broadcasting in Britain and Japan: The BBC and NHK Compared	0
Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective	0
China and Japan: Facing History	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance	0
The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	0
What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy	0
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific	0
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	0
How Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination policy shapes trust in governance: a relative deprivation approach	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
Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan	0
Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps	0
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0