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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Gendai Ōsaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyō shūseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)	23
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination	9
Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept	6
Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms	6
Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma	5
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe	5
Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change	5
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	4
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	4
Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy	4
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	3
Education and Social Stratification in South Korea	3
The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize	3
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	3
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	2
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	2
Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	1
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	1
What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy	1
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	1
Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics	1
China and Japan: Facing History	1
Policy change and national identification: the discursive institutionalism of Japan’s migrant admission policy	1
Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?)	1
Ideating University Reform in Japan	1

Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War	1
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities	1
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	1
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	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
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	0
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire	0
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations	0
Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry	0
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	0
Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History)	0
The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding	0
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	0
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	0
Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety	0
Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline	0
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	0
The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19	0
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	0
The Beatles in Japan: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
Scars of the job market “ice-age”	0
The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area	0
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	0
Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power	0
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality)	0
How Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination policy shapes trust in governance: a relative deprivation approach	0
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	0
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan	0
Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan’s Social Control	0
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism	0
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	0
Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan	0
Toward an intersectional Burakuness: regional discontinuities in Japan’s Buraku-focused museums	0
Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar	0
Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	0
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	0
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan	0
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	0
Kakusareta Shōtoku Taishi: Kingendai Nihon no gishi to okaruto bunka (Shōtoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan)	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni	0
Education and Social Justice in Japan	0

The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	0
Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933	0
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	0
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	0
The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College	0
Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents	0
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	0
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Social Stratification Theory and Population Aging Reconsidered	0
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	0
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	0
Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	0
Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy	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
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
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	0
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	0
Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki	0
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire	0
Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan	0
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	0
The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet	0
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0
Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism	0
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō	0
Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan	0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan	0
Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as a multilateral negotiation	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 Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan	0
Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai	0
Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia	0
Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective	0
The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945	0
Rethinking Locality in Japan	0
Correction to: Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
Correction to: Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan	0
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	0
In Remembrance of Takashi Inoguchi	0
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	0
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	0
Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19	0
Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates	0
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific	0
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
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War	0
Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers	0
Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment	0
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	0
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan	0
Electoral Rules, Nomination Strategies, and Women’s Representation in Japan and Taiwan	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	0
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	0
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	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
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	0
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds	0
Okinawa heiwaron no ajenda: ikari wo chikara ni suru shiza to hōhō (An Agenda for Okinawan Peace Studies: Viewpoints and Methodologies for Transforming Anger into Power)	0
Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	0