Discussion Papers in 2008

8.
The Anxiety of Influence: Ambivalent Relations Between Japan's 'Mingei' and Britain's 'Arts and Crafts' Movements
Wendy Jones Nakanishi
Posted: 28 October 2008

7.
Suicide and the Japanese Media: On the Hunt for Blame
Matthews, Joel
Posted: 20 July 2008

6.
Arukihenro: Reflections on Fieldwork by a Visual Anthropologist
Mendel, Tommi
Posted: 20 July 2008

5.
Approaching the Language of Zen: Clarke, Heidegger, and the Meaning of Articulation in Zen Koans
Sevilla, Anton
Posted: 28 April 2008

4.
Japan's History Textbook Controversy: Social Movements and Governments in East Asia, 1982-2006
Shibuichi, Daiki
Posted: 4 March 2008

3.
Interned Minds: Issues of Historical Interpretation in Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment
Lege, R. Paul
Posted: 15 February 2008

2.
Creative Clustering in Urban Japan: The Case of Fukuoka
LIM, Tai Wei
Posted: 15 February 2008

1.
Anand Mohan Sahay (1898-1991): Indian Revolutionary in Japan
Goodman, Grant K.
Posted: 26 January 2008

Discussion Papers in 2007

6.
The 'Uyoku Rōnin Dō': Assessing the Lifestyles and Values of Japan's Contemporary Right Wing Radical Activists
Shibuichi, Daiki
Posted: 28 November 2007

5.
Bringing Home the Japanese Abductees from North Korea
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 28 November 2007

4.
Queering Mishima's Suicide as a Crisis of Language
Chozick, Matthew
Posted: 15 October 2007

3.
Is Japanese Politics 'Un-Westminster'? Examining the Role of the PARC
Yoshioka, Masatsugu
Posted: 14 June 2007

2.
Abe Kobo's Woman in the Dunes as a Metaphor for Human Relations Within Japanese Companies
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 23 April 2007

1.
'Loss' and 'Recovery' of Voice amongst Korean International Marriage Migrants: Discourses of Korean-ness in Contemporary Japan
Burgess, Chris
Posted: 2 February 2007

Discussion Papers in 2006

6.
The Fascist Next Door? Nishitani Keiji and the Chūōkōron Discussions in Perspective
Tu, Xiaofei
Posted: 27 July 2006

5.
Unable or Unwilling to Leave the Nest? An Analysis and Evaluation of Japanese Parasite Single Theories
Tran, Mariko
Posted: 3 July 2006

4.
Nihilism or Nonsense? The Postmodern Fiction of Martin Amis and Haruki Murakami
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 8 May 2006

3.
Inside the Well of Loneliness: Towards a Definition of the Japanese Horror Film
Balmain, Colette
Posted: 2 May 2006

2.
The Light and Shadow of Corporate Reconstruction: Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 15 April 2006

1.
Politically Correct Racism and the Geisha Novel: The Psychology of Sophisticated Racism Mirrors that of Ethnic Jokes
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Posted: 10 January 2006

Discussion Papers in 2005

7.
Japanese Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century: The Challenge of Globalization and Internationalization
Aoki, Kumiko
Posted: 4 November 2005

6.
The Dying Game: Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature
Nakanishi, Wendy Jones
Posted: 31 October 2005

5.
Cooperativeness and Buraku Discrimination
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 31 October 2005

4.
The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 6 October 2005

3.
Female Voices, Male Words: Problems of Communication, Identity and Gendered Social Construction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Iles, Timothy
Posted: 31 January 2005

2.
Structural Construction of Japanese Politics as an Alternative to Structural Reform
Ito, Takuya
Posted: 31 January 2005

1.
Municipal Mergers in Rural Japan: Easy on the Powerful, Severe on the Weak
Rausch, Anthony
Posted: 31 January 2005

Discussion Papers in 2004

6.
Postscript: Religion and the Secular in Japan: Problems in History, Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 22 November 2004

5.
The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline
Chapple, Julian
Posted: 18 October 2004

4.
A Worst Possible Beginning to University Reform: The Pressing Need to Expand the Academic Horizons of Researchers Who Embrace Peer Review
Dando, Yasuharu
Posted: 13 May 2004

3.
Dichotomies, Contested Terms and Contemporary Issues in the Study of Religion
Reader, Ian
Posted: 10 May 2004

2.
The Religion-Secular Dichotomy: A Response to Responses
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 6 April 2004

1.
Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology: Responding to Fitzgerald's Errors and Misguided Polemics
Reader, Ian
Posted: 3 March 2004

Discussion Papers in 2003

7.
Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan
Kamikubo, Masato
Posted: 4 November 2003

6.
Japanese Women's Magazines: Inspiration and Commodity
Assmann, Stephanie
Posted: 20 October 2003

5.
The Reluctant Japanese Litigant: A 'New' Assessment
Yoshida, Masayuki
Posted: 13 October 2003

4.
Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms
Matsuda, Noritada
Posted: 13 August 2003

3.
'Religion' and 'the Secular' in Japan: Problems in History, Social Anthropology, and Religion
Fitzgerald, T.
Posted: 10 July 2003

2.
Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
Margerison, Jill Arase
Posted: 9 May 2003

1.
Solving Anti-Burakujūmin Prejudice in the 21st Century: Suggestions from 21 Buraku Residents
McLauchlan, Alastair
Posted: 31 January 2003

Discussion Papers in 2002

1.
Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order: Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status
Hamai, Kazufumi and Mauch, Peter
Posted: 21 March 2002

Discussion Papers in 2001

4.
No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism
Kaneko, Masaru
Posted: 29 August 2001

3.
Biting the Bullet: What We Can Learn from the Shinkansen
Hood, Christopher P.
Posted: 23 May 2001

2.
Media and Communication in Japan: Current Issues and Future Research
Gatzen, Barbara
Posted: 17 April 2001

1.
Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
McNeill, David
Posted: 27 March 2001