Stability and increasing fluidity in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system

Artikel in diesem Heft

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