Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan

1. Introduction
Yoneyuki Sugita

Part I. Modernization and Japan

2. Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis
Carmen Schmidt

3. Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions
Rotem Kowner

4. The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework
Yoneyuki Sugita

5. Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control
Akiko Sato

Part II. Identity and Globalization

6. International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders
Doug Slaymaker

7. Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)Birth of Civil Society, 1945–1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu
Anna Schrade

8. Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion Toward the United States in the Cold War
Ming-Chang Tsai, Seio Nakajima

9. Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan’s Content Industries
Nissim Otmazgin

10. Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today
Jelena Gledić

Keywords: Social Sciences, Area Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies