SOCIAL SCIENCE MATTERS: INQUIRIES INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN JAPAN

Introduction: Social Science Matters
Wolfram MANZENREITER and Iris WIECZOREK
pp. 1-3

From Class Struggle to General Middle Class Society to Divided Society: Societal Models of Inequality in Postwar Japan
David CHIAVACCI
pp. 5-27

Physical Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Japanese Identity in Postcolonial Japan
Arnaud NANTA
pp. 29-47

The Politics of Political Knowledge: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Inquiry into Japanese Politics in the Early Postwar Period
Hiroko TAKEDA and Glenn D. HOOK
pp. 49-68

Quality Assessment and Assurance in Japanese Universities: The Plight of the Social Sciences
YONEZAWA Akiyoshi
pp. 69-82

Reflections on the Trajectories of Social Science Research in Contemporary Japan
Wolfram MANZENREITER and Iris WIECZOREK
pp. 83-97

General Article

Fairness versus Freedom: Constitutional Implications of Internet Electioneering for Japan
OHTA Takaaki
pp. 99-115

Review Essays

Two Paths towards Understanding the Importance of Civil Government
SEKIYA Noboru
pp. 117-122

Deciphering Maruyama Masao: The Challenge of Originality
Rikki KERSTEN
pp. 123-126

Book Reviews

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan, by Mark Metzler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 370 pp., $49.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-24420-6)
ITOH Masanao
pp. 127-129

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan, by Kim Brandt. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007, 336 pp., $84.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3983-8), $23.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-4000-3)
Yuko KIKUCHI
pp. 130-133

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People, by Kevin M. Doak. Boston: Brill, 2007, 200 pp., $93.00 (hardcover ISBN 90-04-15598-8)
MATSUDA Kōichirō
pp. 133-136

Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism, and Borders, edited by Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann. New York: Routledge, 2006, 288 pp., $170.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-37215-1)
Ethan MARK
pp. 136-140

War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005, by Franziska Seraphim. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, 409 pp., $49.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-02271-8), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 0-674-02830-9)
Sven SAALER
pp. 140-143

Japan's Contested Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II, by Phillip A. Seaton. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 258 pp., $170.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-39915-7)
Eyal BEN-ARI
pp. 143-146

Kita Chsen e no Ekusodasu:‘Kikoku Jigy’no Kage o Tadoru (Exodus to North Korea: Tracing the Shadows of the‘Returnee’Project), by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (trans. Tashiro Yasuko). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 2007, 376 pp., ¥2,200 (paperback ISBN 978-4-02-250255-1)
WADA Haruki
pp. 146-149

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan, edited by Maria Rodríguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores P. Martinez. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, xxii + 186 pp., $120.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-32318-5)
KOBAYASHI Naoko
pp. 149-152

Making Pilgrimage: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku, by Ian Reader. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005, 392 pp., $55.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8248-2876-3)
ASAKAWA Yasuhiro
pp. 152-155

Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan , edited by Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta. London: Routledge, 2005, 324 pp., $35.95 (paperback ISBN 0-415-40585-8), $140.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-35370-X)
TANAKA Masakazu
pp. 155-158

Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization, by Ian Condry. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, 249 pp., $79.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3876-9), $22.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-3892-0)
HOSOKAWA Shūhei
pp. 159-162

Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History, by Sarah Chaplin. London: Routledge, 2007, 241 pp., $171.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-41585-3)
Mary REISEL
pp. 162-164

Ethnography at Work, by Brian Moeran. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007, 152pp., $34.95 (paperback ISBN 1-84520-498-0), 176 pp., $109.95 (hardcover ISBN 1-84520-497-2)
SUMI Atsushi
pp. 165-168

Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army, by Sabine Frühstück. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 270 pp., $55.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-24794-9), $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-520-24795-7)
SATO Fumika
pp. 169-172

Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, by Amy Borovoy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 251 pp., $19.95 (paperback 0-520-24452-4), $50.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-520-24451-6)
Matthew ALLEN
pp. 172-174

The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility, edited by Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007, 222 pp., $48.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8047-5486-1)
KONO Shigemi
pp. 174-178

Shōshi Kōrei Shakai no Mienai Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society), by Shirahase Sawako. Tokyo: Tky Daigaku Shuppankai, 2005, 224 pp., ¥3,800 (hardcover ISBN 4-13-051121-1)
Leonard J. SCHOPPA
pp. 178-180

ERRATAM
p. 181