Dear SSJ-Forum subscribers,


We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of/Social Science Japan Journal/(vol 24 no 2) is now available online (https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/24/2 <https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/24/2>).


In this issue: Sawako Shirahase studies the relationship between aging society and income inequality and evaluates determinants of economic well-being for the elderly; Ayako Löschke examines the efficacy of administrative measures to control and penalize Japan's far-right protesters; Paul Christensen presents an ethnographic study of Narcotics Anonymous treatment programs in Japan based on extensive field research; Seok-Won Lee reconsiders the thinking of one of Japan's most controversial postwar intellectuals on nationalism and modern development; Michiko Suzuki analyzes the motivations and ideology of Red Cross nurses treating victims in the aftermath of the atomic bombings; and Sae Okura surveys the historical underrepresentation of disabled people among Diet members.


*Social Science Japan Journal
Volume 24, Issue 2, Summer 2021
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*GENERAL ARTICLES*
Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered
Sawako SHIRAHASE
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab010 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab010>

Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan's Social Control
Ayaka LÖSCHKE
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab005 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab005>

Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment
Paul CHRISTENSEN
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab025 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab025>

Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism
Seok-Won LEE
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab021 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab021>

The Japanese Red Cross Society's Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945
Michiko SUZUKI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab026 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab026>

*SURVEY ARTICLE*
The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet
Sae OKURA
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab024 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab024>

*BOOK REVIEWS*
Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Ken KOTANI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab001 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab001>

Japan's Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Paul MIDFORD
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab002 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab002>

The Political History of Modern Japan
Giulio PUGLIESE
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab003 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab003>

Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
Andrea PRESSELLO
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab009 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab009>

Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding
Eiji OGUMA
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab016 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab016>

Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan
Andrew L OROS
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab014 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab014>

Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933
Noriko KANAHARA
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab012 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab012>

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
Linda HASUNUMA
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab013 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab013>

Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
Andrea E MURRAY
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab006 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab006>

Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace
Jon MORRIS
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab008 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab008>

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe
Wenkai HE
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab017 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab017>

Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)
Yosuke SUNAHARA
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab015 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab015>

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Ellen B RUBINSTEIN
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab004 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab004>

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Susanne KLIEN
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab007 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab007>

The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
Wolfram MANZENREITER
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab018 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab018>

The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Junichi NAGAI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab011 <https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyab011>

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Dr. Meredith Shaw
Managing Editor, Social Science Japan Journal
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science
University of Tokyo
Email: mshaw@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp <mailto:mshaw@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp>