Gendering Contemporary Japan

An introduction to this issue's special topic: gendering contemporary Japan
Glenda ROBERTS
pp.1-2

Government approaches to gender equality in the mid-1990s
OSAWA Mari
pp.3-19

Gender and elder care: social change and the role of the caregiver in Japan
Susan Orpett LONG and Phyllis Braudy HARRIS
pp.21-36

Gendered organization and workplace culture in Japanese customer services
Karen SHIRE
pp.37-58

From imperial gifts to sex slaves: theorizing symbolic representations of the 'comfort women'
Chunghee Sarah SOH
pp.59-76

General Articles

The transformation of the vision of labor unionism: internal union politics in the Japanese steel industry in the 1960s
SUZUKI Akira
pp.77-93

Rejection, understanding, strategy: Japanese political studies in Korea after the Second World War
SONG Joo-myung
pp.95-112

Book reviews

The political economy of Japanese society, vols.1 and 2 (Banno Junji, ed.)
T.J. PEMPEL
pp.113-117

Shakai kagaku saiko, haisen kara hanseiki no dojidaishi
(Rethinking social science: Livinv the fifty years since defeat) (Takeshi Ishida)
Rikki KERSTEN
pp.117-120

Molding Japanese minds: the state in everyday life (Sheldon Garon)
Yumiko MIKANAGI
pp.120-123

Keizai fukko to sengo seiji: nihon shakaito 1945-1951
(The politics of economic reconstruction in postwar Japan: the Japan Socialist Party, 1945-1951)
(Nakakita Koji)
James BABB
pp.124-126

Disparaged success: labor politics in postwar Japan (Ikuo Kume)
MIURA Mari
pp.126-129

Kagaku gijutsu shakaigaku no riron (The science-technology-society interface: a sociological theory) (Matsumoto Miwao)
Jonathan LEWIS
pp.130-134

Japan works: power and paradox in postwar industrial relations (John Price)
ISHIDA Mitsuo
pp.134-136

Portraits of the Japanese workplace: labor movements, workers, and managers (Kumazawa Makoto)
Ulrich JURGENS and Holger WOHLBIER
pp.137-140

Cultures of antimilitarism: national security in Germany and Japan (Thomas Berger)
Kazuhiko NOGUCHI
pp.140-144

Seito shiji no kozo (The structure of support for political parties) (Miyake Ichiro)
Dennis PATTERSON
pp.144-147

Kokugo to iu shiso: kindai nihon no gengo ninshiki
(The idea of kokugo: language consciousness in modern Japan) (Lee Yeounsuk)
J. Marshall UNGER
pp.147-151

Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan (Richard Siddle)
UEMURA Hideaki
pp.151-153