OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy	31
Genpatsu Jiko to ‘Shoku’: Shijō, Komyunikēshon, Sabetsu (The Nuclear Disaster and ‘Food’. The Market, Communication, Discrimination)	7
The US–Japan alliance and the role of the US Marines on Okinawa in extended deterrence	6
Nihon kishō gyōsei-shi no kenkyū: Tenkiyohō ni okeru kanryōsei to shakai (Building Expertise and Reputation: A History of the Japan Meteorological Agency)	6
Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege	5
Three is Company, Four is a Crowd? Perceptions of Cultural Diversity in the Workplace	5
In Remembrance of Ehud Harari	4
Japan’s Extreme Infrastructure: Fortress-ification, Resilience, and Extreme Nature	4
Toshi Kyojū no Shakaigaku: Shakai Chōsa kara yomitoku Nihon no Jūtaku Seisaku (Sociology of Urban Settlements: Japanese Housing Policy as Interpreted from Social Surveys)	4
Sengo nihon no kankei shūfuku gaikō: Kokusai seiji riron ni yoru rekishi bunseki (Postwar Japanese Relations Restoration Diplomacy: Historical Analysis Through International Political Theory)	4
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition	4
A Japanese Subjective Well-Being Indicator Based on Twitter Data	3
Nihon Kyōsantō – “Kakumei” o Yume mita 100-nen (The Japanese Communist Party: 100 Years of Dreaming of “Revolution”)	3
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Partnership and Mobility	3
Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Japan	2
Why Not Mahan? Path Dependence in Modern Japanese Geostrategic Thinking of the Pacific	2
Rethinking Locality in Japan	2
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	2
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan	2
Cultural fluency required? Interrogating ethnocentrism in the employment of white-collar Asian migrants in Japan	1
Shin Reisen, Shin Detanto to Nihon no Higashi Ajia Gaikō: Ōhira, Suzuki, Nakasone no Taikan Kyōryoku o Chūshin ni	1
Shimizu Ikutarō and the Precarious Coexistence of Progressivism and Conservatism	1
Gendai Nihon no daihyōsei minshuseiji: Yūkensha to seijika	1
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan	1
Disability Prestige and Perceived Disability Disadvantage: Intersubjective Structure of Disability as a Social Disadvantage in the Japanese Metropolitan Area	1

Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits	1
Ties of Possibility: Selecting Future Founders in Tokyo’s Start-up Ecosystem	1
Education and Social Justice in Japan	1
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture	1
Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific	1
Patronage and Predominance: How the LDP Maintains Its Hold on Power	1
Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan	1
Korona Kiki no Seiji: Abe Seiken vs. Chiji (The Politics of the COVID-19 Crisis: The Abe Administration vs. the Governors)	1
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	1
The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese ‘68	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration	0
Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods	0
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives	0
Structure of naval officer corps in modern Japan: formation through education and examinations	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
Japan as an Immigration Nation: Demographic Change, Economic Necessity and the Human Community Concept	0
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective	0
Doing Intimacy in Pandemic Times: Findings of a Large-Scale Survey Among Singles in Japan	0
Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo	0
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train	0
Popurizumu no Seiji Shakaigaku—Yūkensha no Shiji to Tōhyō Kōdō (A Political Sociology of Populism) by Matsutani Mitsuru. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2022, 268 pp., ¥4,400 (ISBN 97841303018	0
The Political Underrepresentation of People with Disabilities in the Japanese Diet	0
Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations	0
The Politics of Public Broadcasting in Britain and Japan: The BBC and NHK Compared	0
Does cooperation with multiple actors diffuse the government’s responsibility in the implementation of COVID-19 measures?	0
China and Japan: Facing History	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
Correction to: Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0
Ryōiki o Koenai Minshushugi—Chihō Seiji ni okeru Kyōsō to Min’i (Fragmented Democracies: Competition and Legitimacy in Japanese Local Politics)	0
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities	0
The Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Real-Time Apartment Prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area	0
Policy preferences for medical access in Japan’s remote aging municipalities: Insights from a randomized conjoint experiment	0
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan	0
Rekishi-ninshiki wa dō katararete kita ka (The Development of Historical Disputes: How Japan and South Korea Have Talked about Their History)	0
Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms	0
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan	0
Correction to: Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	0
Vulnerability and Pathways to Precarity: How COVID-19 Has Affected Japan’s Nepali Immigrants	0
Mother’s late return home from work, family relationship, and locus of control of children: evidence from Japanese adolescents	0
The Winner of the 2021 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism	0
Shinran to Marukusu shugi: tōsō, ideorogi, fuhensei (Shinran and Marxism: Struggle, Ideology, Universality)	0
Josei Heishi to iu Nanmon: Jendā kara tou Sensō, Guntai no Shakaigaku (The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers: Sociology of War and the Military from a Gender Perspective)	0
Dam break in Japan’s immigration policy: the 2018 reform in a long-term perspective	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
Kakusareta Shōtoku Taishi: Kingendai Nihon no gishi to okaruto bunka (Shōtoku Taishi Veiled: Alternative Histories and Occulture in Modern Japan)	0
The unlikely successful advancement of Japan’s e-government under Suga	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
Ideological Extremism and Political Participation in Japan	0
Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial Japan	0

Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan	0
Self-restraint behavior and partisanship during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a list experiment in Japan	0
Detecting Air Pollution Clusters in Japan: A Spatial Analysis Approach	0
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination	0
Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: Has It Changed? Thirty Years of ODA Charters	0
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War	0
Public opinion and expert critique: reconsidering the role of constitutional scholars in Japan’s security policy	0
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as a multilateral negotiation	0
Tōchi no dezain: Nihon no kenpō kaisei o kangaeru tame ni	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
Japanese Political Economy Revisited: Abenomics and Institutional Change	0
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire	0
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome	0
Setting Down the Skewer: Japan’s Brazilian Food Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
What is new about Japan’s new migration policy? From recruitment of “nonlabor” workers to selection by neoliberal meritocracy	0
Japan Beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry	0
How Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination policy shapes trust in governance: a relative deprivation approach	0
The Gender Gap in the Returns From College Education in Japan: The Impact of Attending a High-Ranking College	0
Ishin shiji no bunseki: Popyurizumu ka yūkensha no gōrisei ka (Support for the Ishin: Is it a Consequence of Populism, or Rational Choice?)	0
Reluctant Warriors: Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma	0
Anzenhoshō to bōeiryoku no sengoshi, 1971-2010: ‘Kibanteki bōeiryoku kōsō’ no jidai (Unintended Consensus: A History of Postwar Japan’s Defense Concept)	0
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps	0
Does increased local female representation result in expanded childcare provisions? Implications from Japan	0
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific	0
Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds	0
The Winner of the 2024 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Policy change and national identification: the discursive institutionalism of Japan’s migrant admission policy	0
Heterogeneous effects of telework on job satisfaction across gender and employment precarity: evidence from postpandemic Japan	0
Seiji kenryoku to gyōsei soshiki: Chuo shōchō no Nihongata seido sekkei	0
Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)	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
Flexibly Maintained Inequality in Workplace Flexibility: Absolute and Relative Shifts in Telework Under Covid-19	0
In Remembrance of Takashi Inoguchi	0
Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan	0
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism	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
Sengo nihon no ‘kakushin’ seiryoku—teikō to suibō no seijishi (Reformists in Postwar Japan: A Postwar History of Opposition and Decline)	0
Does contact improve intergroup attitudes? Evidence from Japanese perceptions of Chinese and South Koreans	0
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants	0
Ideating University Reform in Japan	0
Education and Social Stratification in South Korea	0
Social Identification and Redistribution Preference: A Survey Experiment in Japan	0
The Winner of the 2023 ISS-OUP Prize	0
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War	0
Barking up the wrong tree? Voter bias and female underrepresentation in Japanese politics	0
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō	0
The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Emergency Responses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945	0
Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: the rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai	0
Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy	0
Policy, Society, and Immigrants in Japan	0
Toward an intersectional Burakuness: regional discontinuities in Japan’s Buraku-focused museums	0
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States	0
Country Risks and Brain Drain: The Emigration Potential of Japanese Skilled Workers	0
Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Partisanship and attribution of responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	0
The power of preferences: productivity and stress in new teleworkers during COVID-19	0
Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy)	0
Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment	0
Correction to: Movement behind the Scenes: The Quiet Transformation of Status Identification in Japan	0
Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan’s Agriculture: Voices From the Field	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
Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance	0
Nichibei Dōmei ni okeru Kyōdō Bōei Taisei no Keisei—Jōyaku Teiketsu kara ‘Nichibei Bōei Kyōryoku no tame no Shishin’ Sakutei made (Formation of a Defense Coordination Framework in the Japan-U.S. Allia	0
Having a granddaughter and voting for female candidates	0
Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association	0
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety	0
Electoral Rules, Nomination Strategies, and Women’s Representation in Japan and Taiwan	0
Scars of the job market “ice-age”	0
The Winner of the 2022 ISS-OUP Prize	0