SOCIAL SCIENCE JAPAN
Newsletter of the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

No.4, August 1995

CONTENTS

FOCUS: Deepening the Academic Dialogue between Japan and Asia

1. Editorial
2. Tall Stories: Japanese Political Studies in Thailand / Nakharin MEKTRAIRAT
3. Studying Japan in Malaysia: The Look East Policy / SHAMSUL A.B. and Wendy A. SMITH
4. Japanese Studies in China / TONG Shiping
5. Indonesia, Japan and the European Union / Zainuddin DJAFAR
6. Japanese-Korean Relations in the 1990s / Patrick KOELLNER
7. Comparative Welfare Regimes: The East Asian States / Ito PENG

- Books -
8. Reforms in Post-Maoist China and Perestroika:A Comparison
9. Koza Contemporary Asia

METHODS

10. Regional Industrial Development: The Current Debate on Milieu and Innovation / Theodor LEUENBERGER
11. An Unconsummated Marriage: Policy Networks and Two-Level Theory / Jonathan LEWIS

RESEARCH REPORTS

12. Urban Housing in Postwar Japan / Ann WASWO
13. Social Science and the Kobe Earthquake / INAMOTO Yonosuke
14. How far Kokusaika? - Possibilities Created by Immigration to Japan / Katherine TEGTMEYER PAK
15. Rebuilding The Social Security System / OSAWA Mari
16. Gender Inequality in the Japanese Workplace / AIBA Keiko
17. Japanese Policy on Climate Change / Jacob PARK
18. Japanese Education Reform / ODANAKA Naoki

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List members might be particularly interested in FUJIWARA Kiichi's "Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future," an article from SSJ #3 dealing with Japanese views of the war and Hiroshima.