NEW ISSUE Social Science Japan Journal (27/2)

We are pleased to announce the release of the summer issue of the Social Science Japan Journal (Vol. 27, No. 2). In addition to a selection of research articles, this issue includes research notes from SSJJ's virtual issue on Covid-19 in Japan, along with book reviews on recent scholarship related to modern and contemporary Japan.

GENERAT ARTICLES
Scars of the job market "ice-age"
Ayako Kondo

Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai [Open Access]
Yoko Demelius and Kamila Szczepanska

Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan's security policy
Tatsuya Iseki and Sou Shinomoto

Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidatesGet access
Eiji Yamamura

Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics
Sijeong Lim and Seiki Tanaka

RESEARCH NOTES
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan
Masaki Hata

Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
Kakeru Okamoto and Masahiro Zenkyo

The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19 [Open Access]
Georg D Blind, Stefania Lottanti von Mandach, Masahiro Kotosaka, David Chiavacci

BOOK REVIEWS

The full issue can be accessed here: https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/27/2
You can access all papers from SSJJ's virtual special issue on COVID-19 through the following link: https://academic.oup.com/ssjj/pages/covid-19-virtual-issue
SSJJ also welcomes submissions in Japanese. For more information on how to submit your research, please visit our website at https://academic.oup.com/ssjj or follow us on X @ssjj_jnrl.

Contact Information
Sebastian Maslow
Managing Editor
Social Science Japan Journal

Contact Email: ssjrev@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
URL: https://academic.oup.com/ssjj