Editorial

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. Preface
3. Stability and increasing fluidity in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system
4. When dismissal becomes a business transaction: Analysis of the processes and consequences of haken-giri under the global recession
5. Divided society model and social cleavages in Japanese politics: No alignment by social class, but dealignment of rural-urban division
6. Eine andere Form der Ungleichheit: Behinderung und soziale Stratifikation in Japans kakusa shakai-Diskussion
7. Understanding buraku inequality: Improvements and challenges
8. From the traditions of J-horror to the representation of kakusa shakai in Kurosawa's film Tokyo Sonata
9. Gender and class in Miura Atsushi's karyū shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review
10. Collaboration or confrontation? Local and non-local actors in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
11. Constructing difference in Japan: Literary counter-images of the Okinawa boom
12. The personal is political in Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]: A ‘little narrative' by zainichi Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung