Igor Prusa examines the 2024-2025 Fuji TV scandal triggered by sexual assault allegations against Nakai Masahiro. The case exposed corporate dysfunction, advertiser exodus, and sparked a #MeToo wave revealing systemic issues in Japanese broadcasting #MediaScandal #セクハラ doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Reiko Ogawa analyzes migrant care workers and Japan’s diverse migration corridors. Her study highlights how recent policies have created multiple entry paths for care work; many migrants chose care work for certification & stable residency, creating stratification among them doi.org/10.1080/1869...

#OpenAccess Kelly Maddox examines postwar trials of Japanese commanders charged with denial of fair trial in wartime courts. Analyzing Australian and British military courts, this study sheds light on Japanese military justice in occupied territories and wartime violence doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Yoshitaka Ishikawa examines regional disparities in Japan's local integration policies for foreign residents. Using data from 1741 municipalities this study shows stronger policies in metropolitan areas while rural regions lag. Key factors: population size & fiscal capacity doi.org/10.1080/1869...

#OpenAccess Lenka Vyleťalová examines the labour mobility and gendered strategies of highly skilled Japanese women in dual career marriages. Focusing on Geneva, she highlights how transnational mobility serves as both a constraint & resource for renegotiating gender norms doi.org/10.1080/1869...

#OpenAccess @hajent.bsky.social @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social analyzes sub-municipal governance of urban rural migration in Japan. Through ethnographic research he highlights how “regional management organizations” work to balance revitalization goals with community cohesion doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Thanks to everyone who visited the Contemporary Japan stand last weekend at the #ASCJ2026 @asianstudies.org in Tokyo. Feel free to reach out to our Managing Editor if you have missed the chance or would like to further discuss publication opportunities with our journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Please do pop by the Contemporary Japan booth and have a chat with our managing editor, Isaac Gagné, if you’re attending the #ASCJ2026 @asianstudies.org this weekend. Isaac will be happy to advise you on publication opportunities in our journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social ascjapan.org/conference/

Hirohisa Takenoshita examines transnational migration and incorporation into the labor market in Japan. This study analyzes how migrant workers obtain jobs through different job searching methods and their impacts on labor market outcomes using survey data #移民 #労働市場 #外国人労働者 doi.org/10.1080/1869...

K. Golovina, V. Kim & V. Mukhina examine the integration of Russian speaking male migrants in Japan. Focusing on men married to Japanese women, they explore how immigration regimes, marriage and gender shape their experiences and pathways to integration doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Yen-Fen Tseng explores gender work and mobility through experiences of young skilled Taiwanese women working in Tokyo corporate headquarters. She highlights their navigation of gendered workplace dynamics career trajectories and transnational mobilities in Japan doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Please do pop by the Contemporary Japan booth and have a chat with our managing editor, Isaac Gagné, if you’re attending the #ASCJ2026 @asianstudies.org this weekend. Isaac will be happy to advise you on publication opportunities in our journal @tandfresearch.bsky.social ascjapan.org/conference/

#OpenAccess @giulia-de-togni.bsky.social examines Japanese government narratives promoting intelligent & caring robots as solutions to the aging society & care labor shortages, questioning the techno-salvific hype and its ethical societal implications for technocare practices doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Using historical institutionalism, @mxrehm.bsky.social analyzes how Japan’s international education policy has been marked by periods of displacement, layering and conversion leading to a tiered system where many privately funded students effectively function as workers doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Between 1894-1914 there was a surge and rapid decline in Buddhist-related life insurance companies, bolstered by social trust in Buddhist sects. YingYing Jiang explores these pioneering forays and shows how this aligned with sects’ modernization strategies doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Does changing jobs improve subjective well-being of young Japanese workers who experience workplace harassment? Using panel data, K. Ishida @ishidak85.bsky.social finds that job mobility can facilitate career formation & offer a pathway to escape negative social ties in Japan doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Shilla Lee explores how Tamba potters in Sasayama engage strategically with tradition through “collective traditionalism” to counter aging membership & demographic decline through community practices & performance, enabling them to sustain their cooperative #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1869...

#OpenAccess David Chiavacci examines the political economy of labor immigration across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. He highlights how developmentalism, productivist welfare regimes, and shared growth lead to dual immigration systems favoring high-skilled workers doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Cornelia Reiher examines local government responses to international labor migration in rural Japan, highlighting how perceptions of foreign workers' roles in regional revitalization shape their (in)visibility and support amid population decline & labor shortages #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1869...

New Issue CJ38(1) available online! Includes 6 original research articles ranging from workplace diversity and pandemic governance to refugee representation in print media, war memory, and labor resistance under the Japanese empire @tandfresearch.bsky.social ▶️ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...

NEW CJ issue 37-2 incl articles on faith talk in political rhetoric @ernils.bsky.social, the afterlife of PMs (T. Tsuda), Korean intl school (K. Hirano), Buraku literacy movements (C. Fusari), elderly reemployment (K. Haga) & Takarazuka fandom (Z. Baraniak-Hirata) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...

What is the role of documentary literature 記録文学 in narratives of Japan’s colonial war & military defeat? Sejin Jeong explores the relationships between individual memories, subjective narratives & collective history through the stories and receptions of 国境物語 and 流れる星は生きている doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Through pioneering research of underground wartime Chinese newspapers, writings of former labor activists, documents at the National Archives of Thailand & personal interviews, Katsuyuki Takahashi traces the activities of Japanese companies in Thailand during the Pacific War doi.org/10.1080/1869...

CJ's Special Issue 'Art & Regional Revitalization - Case Studies from Japan' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3... incl. research on art festivals, tourism, akiya & the global countryside is introduced in today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @tandfresearch.bsky.social zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...

Gracia Liu-Farrer offers a critical analysis of the “discourse of ‘no-immigration’ and of the “identity-binary of ‘Japanese’ versus ‘foreigner’”, and argues that “the normalization of exceptions and the acceptance of differences” is transforming Japan into an immigrant nation doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Laura Dales & Nora Kottmann analyze the changing perceptions of being single in Japan and the rise of “sorokatsu” ソロ活. Using a large-scale survey, they trace the emergence of a "hyper-solo-society" & how the growing number of singles influence the meaning a normal adult life doi.org/10.1080/1869...

What is the relationship between whaling, heritage, tourism & community? Through ethnographic research, @aikerots.bsky.social examines festivals in 3 Japanese towns as case studies of whaling as a social imaginary and reveals how heritage-making is a future-oriented endeavor doi.org/10.1080/1869...

How do older people to reconstruct their identities and attitudes regarding work after #retirement? Kazue Haga uses Röpke’s filter model to analyze how post-retirement workers at a job agency pursue self-identity reconstruction, entrepreneurial strategies, and co-learning doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Independence through diversification: Vincent B. Lesch @uniheidelberg.bsky.social examines how Japanese #NPO Ishintai UNESCO Club has navigated the media & the pandemic through a successful combination of methods to find new ways to communicate with stakeholders #fundraising doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Kristin Surak @lsesociology.bsky.social analyses a tea ceremony at Yasukuni Shrine as a complex process of myth-making. She examines how values of peace and “Asian universalism” are invoked to override recognition of imperialist aggression and violence through “a cup of tea” doi.org/10.1080/1869...

Check out CJ's new issue, incl research on labor market dualization; Murakami’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era; media discourses of nuclear power; Japanese identity & railway technology; Nikkei narratives of multiculturalism; populism in Japanese politics www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...