ISS/OUP Prize Winning Articles
The ISS/Oxford Prize for Modern Japanese Studies is awarded by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, and is awarded to the author of the best article published each year in Social Science Japan Journal. The winning paper is selected by the members of the Journal's editorial and advisory boards, based on the quality and originality of the article and its contribution towards advancing the field of Japanese studies, and the author receives a free year’s subscription to Social Science Japan Journal as well as £200’s worth of OUP books.
Oxford University Press and the ISS hope that the establishment of this new prize will help in a small way to raise standards within the field of Japanese studies, to raise the profile of Japanese studies scholars, and to encourage new authors to publish in Social Science Japan Journal.
The prize-winning paper, with the author's consent, will also be translated into Japanese and published in Shakai Kagaku Kenkyû (the Journal of Social Science) , the Japanese-language journal published by the ISS, with a view to enhancing the role of Social Science Japan Journal as a bridge between the Japanese and English-language social-science communities.
2023
Volume 26, Issue 1 Yunchen Tian
Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants
2022
Volume 25, No 2 Yujin Woo
Homogenous Japan? An Empirical Examination on Public Perceptions of Citizenship
2021
Volume 24, No 2 Ayaka Löschke
Administrative Measures Against Far-Right Protesters: An Example of Japan’s Social Control
2020
Vol 23 N 1 Leonard J Schoppa
The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence
2019
Vol 22 No 1 Nana OISHI and Iori HAMADA
Silent Exits: Risk and Post-3.11 Skilled Migration from Japan to Australia
2018
Vol 21 No 2 Juan Nelson Martínez Dahbura
On the Distributional Effect of Japan’s Equal Employment Opportunity Act on the Gender Wage Gap
2017
Vol 20 No 1 Andrew Gordon
New and Enduring Dual Structures of Employment in Japan: The Rise of Non-Regular Labor, 1980s–2010s
2016
Vol 19 No 2 Dipesh Kharel
From Lahures to Global Cooks: Network Migration from the Western Hills of Nepal to Japan
2015
Vol 18 No 1 Tetsuro Kobayashi, Christian Collet, Shanto Iyengar, and Kyu S. Hahn
Who Deserves Citizenship? An Experimental Study of Japanese Attitudes Toward Immigrant Workers
2014
Vol 17 No 1 Pekkanen, Robert; Nyblade, Benjamin and Krauss, Ellis
The Logic of Ministerial Selection: Electoral System and Cabinet Appointments in Japan
2012
Vol 15 No 1 Kushida E. Kenji
Entrepreneurship in Japan’s ICT Sector: Opportunities and Protection from Japan’s Telecommunications Regulatory Regime Shift
2011
Vol 14 No 1 Hunter Janet
Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Communications Work: Meiji Japan in comparative Historical Perspective
2010
Vol 13 No 1 Takegawa Shogo
Liberal Preferences and Conservative Policies: The Puzzling Size of Japan's Welfare State
2009
Vol 12 No 1 Hasegawa Kiyoshi
Law and Community in Japan: The Role of Legal Rules in Suburban Neighborhoods
2008
Vol 11 No 2 Kim Young
Personnel Management Reforms in Japanese Supermarkets: The Positional Warfare and Limited Assimilation of Conversational Communities
2007
Vol 10 No 1 Hasegawa Tamako
Equality of Opportunity or Employment Quotas?—A Comparison of Japanese and American Employment Policies for the Disabled
2006
Vol 9 No 1 Fujime Yuki
Japanese Feminism and Commercialized Sex: The Union of Militarism and Prohibitionism
2005
Vol 8 No 1 Kramer Hans Martin
Just Who Reversed the Course? The Red Purge in Higher Education during the Occupation of Japan
2004
Vol 7 No 2 Hirata Keiko
Beached Whales: Examining Japan's Rejection of an International Norm
2003
Vol 6 No 1 Hill Peter
Heisei Yakuza: Burst Bubble and Botaiho
2002
Vol 5 No 1 Nakamura Karen
Resistance and Co-optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power
