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Left-libertarian values and post-Fukushima social movements: Analyzing newcomers to protests in Japan 左自由主义价值观与后福岛社会运动:分析日本抗议活动的新成员
Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2119521
K. Satoh
ABSTRACT The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011 (3/11) resulted in a significant upsurge of protests in Japan. Previous studies have reported the importance of newcomers (i.e. citizens who first began to participate in protests after 3/11) in such protests. However, a comprehensive picture of these newcomers remains unknown due to the absence of large-scale quantitative datasets. Based on the results of an online survey of approximately 80,000 citizens in the Greater Tokyo area conducted in the winter of 2017, this paper analyzes newcomers and factors that influence their participation in post-3/11 protests. Newcomers account for 40% of protesters and are characterized by their left-libertarian values such as direct democracy, cultural liberalism, antiauthoritarianism, and environmentalism. The newcomers had experience in low-cost social movements and were triggered to be a protester through the perceived social crises caused by 3/11 to which their libertarian values made them sensitive. Some newcomers cultivated a collective identity and friendship through their participation in protests, particularly those who protested in front of the prime minister’s office. By comparing these data with those of pre-3/11 studies, it can be concluded that the “new protest cycle” after 3/11 can be seen as the second wave of the large-scale new social movement in Japanese civil society.
2011年3月(3/11)发生的福岛第一核电站事故在日本引发了大规模的抗议活动。先前的研究报告了新来者(即在3/11之后首次参加抗议的公民)在此类抗议中的重要性。然而,由于缺乏大规模的定量数据集,这些新来者的全面情况仍然未知。本文基于2017年冬季对大东京地区约8万名市民进行的在线调查结果,分析了新移民以及影响他们参与后3/11抗议活动的因素。新来者占抗议者的40%,他们的特点是左派自由主义价值观,如直接民主、文化自由主义、反威权主义和环保主义。新来的人有低成本社会运动的经验,在3/11事件引发的社会危机中被激发成为抗议者,他们的自由主义价值观使他们敏感。一些新来者通过参与抗议活动,尤其是那些在总理府前抗议的人,培养了一种集体认同感和友谊。将这些数据与“3·11”之前的研究数据进行比较,可以得出结论:“3·11”之后的“新抗议周期”可以看作是日本公民社会大规模新社会运动的第二波浪潮。
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Rethinking Japan’s depopulation problem: Reflecting on over 30 years of research with Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture and the potential of SMART Governance 重新思考日本的人口减少问题:反思鸟取县千津镇30多年的研究和SMART治理的潜力
Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2131991
N. Okada
This paper addresses the “depopulation problem” (kaso mondai) in Japan, but from a perspective that has so far been lacking in the literature. First, it points out that the essence of the problem lies in the continuous decline and deterioration of the proactive commitment of “small, lively communities” (ikita chiisana komyunitii). Second, it discusses how this situation can be reversed and the ways that these communities‘ potential for overcoming these challenges can be enhanced and sustained. I have visited “depopulated areas” (kaso chiiki) all over Japan from the mid-1980s to the present in 2022, and have surveyed and analyzed the “reality of depopulated areas” and the “particularities and local specificities of the depopulation problem” that confront residents. There are peculiarities and diversities, but at the same time, in the process of visiting these various regions I have also identified many commonalities. Moreover, I have developed a hypothesis that the aspects of the “depopulation problem” may be completely different in areas where the proactive efforts of “small, lively communities” are recognized compared to areas where they are not recognized. As such, I see the role of “small, lively communities” as central to addressing the “depopulation problem” in contemporary Japan. I would like to emphasize that it was not possible to establish such a working hypothesis only through desk work. Rather, these insights were born from extensive travel throughout the regions of the country, compiling the collected data, and identifying statistical trends. As will be discussed later, it was only possible to establish such a perspective by conducting field research in concrete, living regions. Only when this kind of field research can be done is it possible to create working hypotheses and strategically test them. Fortunately, the author had such an opportunity. In the mid-1980s, the Department of Social Systems Engineering was established in the Faculty of Engineering at Tottori University, where I was working at the time, and I was given the leadership role in creating the department. As one of the aims and identities of the new department, I took up field research that would contribute to the revitalization of local communities. As soon as this was announced, people from the Chizu Creative Projective Team (CCPT), a voluntary group of local residents in Chizu Town, Tottori
本文讨论了日本的“人口减少问题”(kaso mondai),但从迄今为止文献中缺乏的角度出发。首先,它指出问题的本质在于“小而活跃的社区”(ikita chiisana komyunitii)的积极承诺的持续下降和恶化。其次,它讨论了如何扭转这种情况,以及如何增强和维持这些社区克服这些挑战的潜力。从20世纪80年代中期到2022年,我走访了日本各地的“无人区”(kaso chiiki),调查和分析了“无人区的现实”以及居民面临的“人口减少问题的特殊性和地方特殊性”。有特殊性和多样性,但与此同时,在访问这些不同地区的过程中,我也发现了许多共同点。此外,我还提出了一个假设,即在“小而活跃的社区”的积极努力得到认可的地区,与没有得到认可的地区相比,“人口减少问题”的各个方面可能完全不同。因此,我认为“小而有活力的社区”对于解决当代日本的“人口减少问题”至关重要。我要强调指出,仅仅通过案头工作是不可能建立这样一个可行的假设的。相反,这些见解是通过在全国各地广泛旅行、汇编收集到的数据和确定统计趋势而产生的。正如后面将要讨论的那样,只有通过在具体的生活区域进行实地研究才能确立这样一种观点。只有当这种实地研究能够完成时,才有可能创造可行的假设并对其进行战略测试。幸运的是,作者有这样的机会。20世纪80年代中期,鸟取大学工学院成立了社会系统工程系,我当时在那里工作,我被赋予了创建这个系的领导角色。作为新部门的目标和身份之一,我进行了实地研究,这将有助于振兴当地社区。这一消息一公布,鸟取县千津镇居民自愿组成的千津创意计划小组(CCPT)的人就立即行动起来
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引用次数: 2
Narrating against dominance: Women and organized crime in Japanese discourse and popular culture 反支配叙事:日本话语与流行文化中的女性与有组织犯罪
Pub Date : 2022-06-10 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2083336
Erik Ropers
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Karma and punishment: Prison chaplaincy in Japan 因果报应与惩罚:日本监狱牧师
Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2074127
T. Benedict
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Autonomy and responsibility: Women’s life and career choices in urban Japan 自主与责任:日本都市女性的生活与职业选择
Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2021.2022572
Vincent Mirza
ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork and interviews collected over the past decade, this article examines how young single women in Tokyo are trying to make choices for their careers, navigating between the political economy of labour and reproduction. The article looks at how these women make choices within an ever-changing context where the Japanese moral economy of the postwar coexists with a neoliberal articulation of individual responsibility for life choices. Their experiences reveal the important contradictions between the conservative work regime within companies and the flexible job market they have created. This creates impossible contradictions that place women in both a precarious job market, and when they work in more stable conditions, results in the impossibility of having a family. This article will discuss how, despite these contradictions, young women create meaningful work while attempting to find freedom of choice as they try to define work and life choices not only as a social and moral responsibility, but also as an individual choice. In other words, I seek to show how life choices articulated during the post-growth era are creating new configurations and new challenges within the context of Japan’s ongoing economic and demographic challenges.
摘要本文基于过去十年的实地调查和采访,探讨了东京年轻单身女性如何在劳动和生育的政治经济之间做出职业选择。这篇文章着眼于这些女性如何在不断变化的背景下做出选择,在这种背景下,战后的日本道德经济与个人对生活选择责任的新自由主义表述共存。他们的经历揭示了公司内部保守的工作制度与他们创造的灵活就业市场之间的重要矛盾。这造成了不可能的矛盾,使妇女既处于不稳定的就业市场,又在更稳定的条件下工作,导致无法组建家庭。这篇文章将讨论,尽管存在这些矛盾,年轻女性如何在努力寻找选择自由的同时创造有意义的工作,因为她们试图将工作和生活选择不仅定义为社会和道德责任,而且定义为个人选择。换言之,我试图展示后增长时代的生活选择是如何在日本持续的经济和人口挑战的背景下创造新的配置和新的挑战的。
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Mutual learning between Japanese managers and foreign subordinates: Enablers for middle-up-down management under role definition flexibility at Japanese headquarters 日本管理者与外国下属的相互学习:角色定义灵活性下日本总部中-下管理的推动者
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028227
K. Koyama
ABSTRACT The number of foreign workers at Japanese companies has increased in recent years. Whereas this trend has been promoted by the policies of the Japanese government, Japanese companies face many difficulties in cross-cultural management. This study aimed to reveal how Japanese managers can modify their mindset and behaviours to adopt middle-up-down management for their foreign subordinates. Nine factors were coded from the interview surveys with ten pairs of Japanese managers and their foreign subordinates. Given the nine factors, a hypothetical conceptual framework was developed based on the three-step cultural synergy model. This conceptual framework offers some new perspectives to cross-cultural management theory. First, the homogeneous culture of Japanese companies could be replaced by cultural synergy and inclusive leadership to apply middle-up-down management with role definition flexibility to foreign subordinates. Second, cultural synergy and inclusive leadership could be more effective in Japanese than Western human resource management. These findings need to be fully examined in future research.
摘要近年来,日本公司的外籍员工数量有所增加。尽管日本政府的政策推动了这一趋势,但日本公司在跨文化管理方面面临着许多困难。本研究旨在揭示日本管理者如何改变他们的心态和行为,对外国下属采用中上下管理。通过对10对日本经理及其外国下属的访谈调查,对9个因素进行了编码。考虑到这九个因素,基于三步文化协同模型制定了一个假设的概念框架。这一概念框架为跨文化管理理论提供了一些新的视角。首先,日本公司的同质文化可以被文化协同和包容性领导所取代,将具有角色定义灵活性的中上管理应用于外国下属。其次,日本的文化协同作用和包容性领导可能比西方的人力资源管理更有效。这些发现需要在未来的研究中得到充分的检验。
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Working the shopping mall: Labour shortages and the dualities in Japan’s labour economy 在购物中心工作:劳动力短缺与日本劳动力经济的双重性
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028226
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
ABSTRACT The Japanese labour market has for long been sharply divided along the lines of gender and contractual status, with these attributes largely determining employment conditions. Yet, Japan’s demographic situation has led to labour shortages, and it needs to be asked whether companies can sustain current employment practices. This article seeks answers to this question by looking at the employment situation in retailing, specifically in shopping centres, places that are demanding in terms of working hours and employ high numbers of female and non-regular employees. The emergence of labour shortages led to a lively discourse among the members of the Japan Council of Shopping Centers, the industry’s association, and this discourse has been featured in the industry journal SC Japan Today. Analysing this discourse, the article argues that companies have built their business models on the assumption of a ready labour supply, and they are now becoming more flexible in employment practices. Yet, companies avoid a discussion of remuneration levels and are also looking at other solutions such as the reorganization of work processes or automation, and especially the employment of foreign employees. An increase in foreign employees may lead to new dualities based on nationality in the future.
摘要长期以来,日本劳动力市场在性别和合同地位方面存在严重分歧,这些特征在很大程度上决定了就业条件。然而,日本的人口状况导致了劳动力短缺,需要问公司是否能够维持目前的就业做法。本文通过研究零售业的就业情况,特别是购物中心的就业情况来寻求这个问题的答案,这些地方对工作时间要求很高,雇佣了大量女性和非正规员工。劳动力短缺的出现导致了该行业协会日本购物中心理事会成员之间的激烈讨论,这一讨论已在行业期刊《今日日本》上发表。通过分析这一论述,文章认为,公司已经建立在劳动力供应充足的假设基础上的商业模式,而且他们现在在就业实践中变得更加灵活。然而,公司避免讨论薪酬水平,也在考虑其他解决方案,如重组工作流程或自动化,尤其是雇佣外国员工。外国雇员的增加可能会导致未来基于国籍的新的双重性。
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引用次数: 1
Employment of senior workers in Japan 日本雇用高级工人
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2028228
P. Debroux
ABSTRACT The Japanese HRM practices and policies resulting from the compromises between labor, management, and the state emerged after WWII and coalesced in the 1960s. The subsequent emergence of a very cohesive, stable, and dynamic employment system is largely credited with playing an important role in Japan’s economic success and the stability of Japanese society in the postwar period. The treatment of senior workers after mandatory retirement occupied a specific place in this system. A mix of institutional, socio-cultural, economic, and demographic factors created a virtuous circle, and Japan was considered a model of management of those retired workers. Companies were able to maintain employment for many of them in relatively good social and economic conditions beneficial for both parties, even after mandatory retirement, and this assured a good transition to definitive retirement. However, despite Japan’s relative success in this regard, this paper exposes why the traditional HRM policies and practices are now considered socially and economically unsustainable in the treatment of retired senior workers. It argues that Japan cannot afford under-utilizing senior workers during the pre- and post-retirement periods of their career in the way that traditional policies and practices have institutionalized. Not only does Japan’s economy need senior workers, but not giving them the opportunity to maintain decent standards of living would have dire social and economic consequences. This calls for revamping the HRM system, so that the talent of senior workers can be used for their own benefit, while contributing to their employers and to society at large.
摘要日本的人力资源管理实践和政策源于劳动、管理和国家之间的妥协,二战后出现,并于20世纪60年代融合。随后出现的一个非常有凝聚力、稳定和充满活力的就业体系在很大程度上被认为对战后日本的经济成功和日本社会的稳定发挥了重要作用。在这一制度中,高级工人在强制退休后的待遇占有特定的地位。制度、社会文化、经济和人口因素的结合创造了一个良性循环,日本被认为是管理这些退休工人的典范。即使在强制退休后,公司也能够在对双方都有利的相对良好的社会和经济条件下为他们中的许多人保持就业,这确保了向最终退休的良好过渡。然而,尽管日本在这方面取得了相对成功,但本文揭示了为什么传统的人力资源管理政策和做法现在被认为在社会和经济上不可持续地对待退休的高级工人。它认为,日本不能像传统政策和做法那样,在退休前和退休后的职业生涯中对老年工人的利用不足。日本经济不仅需要高级工人,而且如果不给他们保持体面生活水平的机会,将产生可怕的社会和经济后果。这就要求改革人力资源管理系统,使高级员工的人才能够用于自身利益,同时为雇主和整个社会做出贡献。
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Japan’s employment system and human resource management – coping with increasing adjustment pressures 日本的用人制度和人力资源管理——应对日益增大的调整压力
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2031506
Parissa Haghirian
ABSTRACT This introduction introduces the four papers of the special issue and places them in the wider context of the changes and challenges that Japan’s employment and HR systems have been confronting. The paper first discusses major challenges Japanese companies and the Japanese economy face such as labor shortage, low productivity and womenomics and the problems of recruiting skilled labor. After this, the paper discusses the interrelatedness of these issues and how the papers presented in this special issue provide new insights into these topics. Finally, the paper gives a brief assessment of how the Covid-19 pandemic, which happened after the project had started and which is therefore not reflected in the individual papers, has impacted work and employment in Japan.
摘要本引言介绍了特刊的四篇论文,并将它们放在日本就业和人力资源系统面临的变化和挑战的更广泛背景下。本文首先讨论了日本企业和日本经济面临的主要挑战,如劳动力短缺、生产力低下、女性经济学以及招聘熟练劳动力的问题。之后,本文讨论了这些问题的相互关系,以及本期特刊中的论文如何为这些主题提供新的见解。最后,本文简要评估了新冠肺炎疫情对日本工作和就业的影响,该疫情发生在项目启动后,因此没有反映在个别论文中。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2022.2032544
F. Waldenberger
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