Yasumasa Kuroda

Recent Japanese Advances in the Human Sciences

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Japan’s Middle East Policy: Fuzzy Nonbinary Process Model

What affects the way Japan makes its foreign policy? Is it domestic or external pressure that impacts Japan’s foreign policy making? More precisely, to what extent and in what ways do each of the two factors affect the way decisions are made?

Aspects of Community Political Participation in Japan: Sex, Education, and Generation in the Process of Political Socialization

One of the historical generalizations one can make about politics in the past several hundred years is that an increasing proportion of the adult population is participating politically everywhere. A group which has gained the right to vote in recent times is women. Political scientists have paid relatively little attention to this largest minority in the world of politics. Women constitute more than one half of the total population in many parts of the world today, yet the differences in sex is treated along with other demographic variables and receives little specific attention by political scientists.

Recent Japanese Advances in Political Science.

politics. The scope of the report will be limited only to recent developments in Japanese political science of the past several years.’ First, administrative structures within which political science departments in Japan function will be described. Second, pioneering work in selected areas of political science will be presented. Last, comments will be made on the current status and future of political science in Japan.

Characteristics of Social Science Journals in Japan.

There are a number of ways in which academic journals in Japan differ from their counterparts in the United States. These differences are such that foreign scholars interested in social science development in Japan find it difficult to locate articles relating to their specific interest. Added to this obstacle is the fact that only a small number of scholars outside Japan are sufficiently proficient in the Japanese language to read articles written in Japanese. A common problem facing scholars everywhere, of course, is the overflowing amount of material that is being published in learned journals today. The number of social science journals is growing rather rapidly. In the United States, for instance, in the political science discipline alone, there are at least five journals which have either just begun publication or are in some nascent stage of publication at this time (1968). An increasing number of organizations are beginning to employ some mechanized way of compiling bibliographies. Recognizing certain characteristics of the Japanese social science journals will aid non-Japanese-speaking social scientists in their search for social science literature in Japan. These characteristics are described below: first, an attempt is made