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Encouraging Award Recipients

22nd(2023)

Articles

  • Yu-Anis Aruga, 2022, “When was Racial Discrimination a Problem?: Categorical and Moral Order of the “Konketsuji Problem” in Post-war Japan,” Japanese Sociological Review, 72(5) 154-171.
  • Kentaro Ishijima, 2022, ”How cure was justified: rhetorical strategies for the treatment of colour vision deficiency in the 1970s and 1980s in Japan,” Disability and Society, DOI:10.1080/09687599.2022.2072709

Book

  • Yu-Anis Aruga, 2022, “When was Racial Discrimination a Problem?: Categorical and Moral Order of the “Konketsuji Problem” in Post-war Japan,” Japanese Sociological Review, 72(5) 154-171.

21st(2022)

Articles

  • Makiko Iio, ” The Immigrant Community as Part of a Transnational Disciplinary Apparatus in the Era of Restrictive U.S. Immigration Enforcement : Focusing on the Experiences of Rural Mexican Immigrants from Oaxaca,” Soshioroji, 65(3).

Book

  • Makiko Iio, ” The Immigrant Community as Part of a Transnational Disciplinary Apparatus in the Era of Restrictive U.S. Immigration Enforcement : Focusing on the Experiences of Rural Mexican Immigrants from Oaxaca,” Soshioroji, 65(3).

20th(2021)

Articles

Book

19th(2020)

Articles

Book

18st(2019)

Articles

  • Kyoko Suzuki, “The Latent Structures of the Labour Market and the Effect of Employment Categories on Wages in Japan: A Latent Class Analysis with Finite Mixture Model,” The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, No. 698

Book

  • Yoko Nobe, Sociology of Adoption: The meaning of Blood Ties in Contemporary Japan, Shinyosha

17th(2018)

Articles

  • Yasuo Yabuki, “Employment History and Transition to Marriage: Different Effect of Employment Status, Occupation, Firm Size, and Associated Changes According to Gender,” Japanese Journal of Family Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2

Book

  • Yoko Nobe, The Book I Wrote after Researching and Thinking about Albinism: Sociology Starting from the Person Concerned, Seikatsu Shoin
  • Hiroki Nakamori, Sociology of Disappearance: A Study of Intimacy and Responsibility., Keio University Press

16th(2017)

Articles

  • Eiri Matsuoka, “Marginal Minorities Who Resist Hate-speech: Based on Interviews with “Naturalized Korean-Japanese” and “Doubles” Who Participate in “Counter Action,” Soshioroji, 60(3)

Book

  • Kenjiro Sakakibara, Social Inclusion and the Body: Disability Definition and Different Treatments Following Disability Antidiscrimination Legislation, Seikatsu Shoin

15th(2016)

Articles

  • Minori Matsutani, “Why Do They Become Locally Employed Workers in Shanghai?: The Migration System and Migrants’ Motives,” Soshioroji, 60(2) [Books] Ryo Okubo, Archeology of Screens in Early Modern Japan, Seikyusha
  • Yutaka Koyama, Rehabilitating Civil Liberalism: From Carl Schmitt to Niklas Luhmann Keiso Shobo

14th(2015)

Articles

  • Ryoichi Nishimaru, “The High School Sector and Educational Achievement: The Influence of Social Stratification in Private High School,” Soshioroji, 59(1)

Book

  • Takashi Kashima, The Historical Sociology of Advertising Creators: The Fluctuation of the Individual and the Organization in Modern Japan,, Serika Shobo.

13th(2014)

Articles

  • Sara Park, ““Who Are You?”: On Definition of “Korean Illegal Entrants” in Early Postwar Japan,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 [Book] No works eligible for the award

12th(2013)

Articles

  • Jin Masuda, “Permanent Part-Time Youth and Hope,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol.63, No.1

Book

  • Tomonori Ishioka, Everyday Life of the Underdog Filipino Boxer: Body Cultures Crafted in Destitution, Sekaisisosya.
  • Taro Tsurumi, Zion Imagined: Russian Jews at the End of Empire, The University of Tokyo Press

11th(2012)

Articles

  • Yu Fukuda, “When We Reflect upon the Disaster and the Dead: The Transition of Rituals in the Nagasaki City Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony,” Soshioroji, 56(2)

Book

  • Hideyo Nakamura, “Recovery” from Eating Disorders: Narrative-Based Clinical Sociology, Shinyosha
  • Norihiro Nihei, The Birth and Demise of ‘Volunteer’: The Sociology of Knowledge in the Paradox of Giving, Nagoya University Press

10th(2011)

Articles

  • Hideki Inazu, “Surveillance Experiences of Nikkei Peruvians: Focusing on the “Transference” of Spatial Managers,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 1. [Book]
  • Mayumi Fukunaga, Environmental ethics for polyphony: Legitimacy of Watershed Governance in the Mattole Where Salmon Returns Harvest-sha.

9th(2010)

Articles

  • Satoshi Adachi, “Social Integration in Post-Multiculturalism: An Analysis of Social Integration Policy in Postwar Britain,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 60, No. 3.

Book

  • Jun Tsunematsu, The Meaning of Tort Liability in Japan: A Sociological Exploration, Keiso Shobo

8th(2009)

Articles

  • Satoshi Okabe, “Family Background and the Process of Ability Formation,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No. 3.

Book

  • Kiyoshi Kanabishi, “Validated law” in Everyday practice: The Process of Legalisation of “Illegal” occupation in the Itami airport site, Shinyosha

7th(2008)

Articles

  • Hirohisa Takenoshita, “Intergenerational Mobility in East Asian Countries: A Comparative Study of Japan, Korea and China,” International Journal of Japanese Sociology Vol.16, No. 1
  • Mayumi Fukunaga, “Legitimacy and the Discursive Space Based on the Collective Memory of Salmon: A case of the Mattole watershed in California,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 2

Book

  • Toshihiro Abe, Considering Past-Conflict Society, Kyoto University Press Shun Ishihara, The Japanese Empire and the Ogasawara, Heibonsha

6th(2007)

Articles

  • Suehisa Ohkura, “The Economic Sociology of Forest Devastation in Japan: A Case Study of Forestry Households in Tokushima Prefecture,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 3

Book

  • Shin Arita, Education and Social Stratification in South Korea: An Empirical Approach to the ‘School Credential Society’ The University of Tokyo Press

5th(2006)

Articles

  • Norihiro Nihei, “Rethinking of the Problem of Complicity between Volunteer Activities and Neo-liberalism,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 56, No. 2

Book

  • Hideo Nakazawa, The Local Referendum Movement and Local Regime, Harvest- sha.

4th(2005)

Articles

  • Akihiko Higuchi, “The Mechanism of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol.55, No.1

Book

  • No works eligible for the award

3th(2004)

Articles

  • Masato Onoue, “Interpretation Freedom and New Combination: The Way in Which “Middle-Class” Has Been Narrated,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 54, No. 3

Book

  • Josuke Amada, Sociology of Aging and Frailty, Taga Shuppan

2nd(2003)

Articles

  • Yoshiaki Fukuma, “Representations of the ‘West,’ ‘Japan,’ the ‘Periphery’ and Nationality in the Discourse of Lafcadio Hearn Studies,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 3

Book

  • Eiji Oguma, “Minsyu” and “Aikoku” (Democracy and Patriotism): Nationalism and Publicness in Postwar Japan, Shinyosha
  • Naoko Takeda, Setouchi Fishing Emigrants to Manila: Their Impact on the Home Community, Ochanomizu Shobo

1nd(2002)

Articles

  • Nobuo Imai, “Death, Modernity and Monuments: The Realities Expressed in the Monuments of the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 4

Book

  • Itsuko Kamoto, The Emergence of ‘Kokusai Kekkon’: On Becoming a ‘Civilized Nation’, Shinyosha.