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Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce you that a new issue of Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) has been published online.
Below listed is the table of contents of the issue. You may also view the table of contents online at:
http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1?etoc.

With very best wishes,

Tomoko Tsuchiya
Marketing Executive
Oxford University Press

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Social Science Japan Journal Table of Contents (Vol.
16, No. 1 Winter 2013)
http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1?etoc

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General Papers
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Self-Employment in Japan: A Microanalysis of Personal Profiles
Jess DIAMOND and Ulrike SCHAEDE
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 1-28

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/1.abstract.
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Expectations of Failure: Maturity and Masculinity for Freeters in
Contemporary Japan
Emma E. COOK
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 29-43

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/29.abstract
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Citizen Participation or Low-Cost Care Providers?
Welfare Non-profit
Organisations in Japan
Junko YAMASHITA
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 45-62

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/45.abstract
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Liabilities of Partisan Labels: Independents in Japanese Local Elections
Ken Victor L. HIJINO
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 63-85

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/63.abstract
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Does Viewing Television Affect the Academic Performance of Children?
Wataru KUREISHI and Keiko YOSHIDA
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 87-105

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/87.abstract
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Yasuoka Masahiro’s ‘New Discourse on Bushidō
Philosophy’: Cultivating
Samurai Spirit and Men of Character for Imperial Japan
Roger H. BROWN
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 107-129

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/107.abstrac
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Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime:
Unemployment Protection in
Japan, 1919–1949
Hans Martin KRÄMER
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 131-153

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/131.abstrac
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Book Reviews
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The Transformation of Japanese Employment Relations:
Reform without
Labour
Bill TAYLOR
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 155-158

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/155.extract
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Corporate Governance and Managerial Reform in Japan
Takahito KATO
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 158-160

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/158.extract
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The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal
System, 1871–2010
Janet HUNTER
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 161-163

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/161.extract
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Taishūka to Meritocracy: Kyōikusenbatsu o meguru Shiken to Suisen no
paradox (Educational Expansion and Meritocracy: The Paradox of
Examination and Recommendation in Educational
Selection)
Ryoji MATSUOKA
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 164-167

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/164.extract
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Rōdōhō Nyūmon (Introduction to Labor Law)
Ryō KAMBAYASHI
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 167-170

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/167.extract
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Shakaiteki Keizai ga Hiraku Mirai: Kiki no Jidai ni ‘Hōsetsu Shakai’ o
Motomete (Beyond the Horizons of the Social Economy:
Demands for an
‘Inclusive Society’ in an Age of Economic Crisis)
Masafumi ARATA
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 170-173

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/170.extract
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Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin
in Postwar Japan
Shigeki UNO
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 173-176

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/173.extract
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A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform:
Evaluating the Long Run
Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan
Yoshikuni ONO
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 176-179

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/176.extract
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Reisen Kōzō no Henyō to Nihon no tai Chū Gaikō (The Transformation of the
Framework of the Cold War and Japan’s China Policy)
Madoka FUKUDA
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 179-182

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/179.extract
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Teikoku Nihon to Zaibatsu Shōsha: Kyōkō—Sensōka no Mitsui Bussan
(Imperial Japan and Zaibatsu Trading Companies:
Mitsui & Co. in Times of
Panic and War)
Keishi OKABE
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 182-184

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/182.extract
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Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash
Junko OTANI
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 185-188

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/185.extract
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Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of
Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Scott SCHNELL
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 188-191

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/188.extract
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Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan
David EASON
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 191-194

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/191.extract
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Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan
Patrick W. GALBRAITH
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 195-198

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/195.extract
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Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial
World
Paul S. HANSEN
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 198-201

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/198.extract
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Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
M. William STEELE
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 201-203

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/201.extract
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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
Hugh DE FERRANTI
Social Science Japan Journal 2013 16: 204-206

http://ssjj.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/204.extract
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