The post-pandemic university in Japan and the UK: A project proposal
May 2022
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Journal article
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RIHE International Seminar Reports 25
How to begin research: The diversity of Japanese studies
January 2021
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Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs
Private universities: Diverse and Adaptable
January 2021
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Handbook of Higher Education in Japan
The Hensachi: Its Dominant Role in University rankings
January 2021
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Handbook of Higher Education in Japan
Family-Run Universities in Japan Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030
June 2020
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Book
This book offers a new perspective on recent changes in the Japanese higher education sector and contributes to an emerging literature on private higher education and family business across the world.
The invention, gaming, and persistence of the hensachi ('standardised rank score') in Japanese education
September 2018
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Journal article
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Oxford Review of Education
This paper explores the development of the hensachi system in Japanese education from the 1960s when it first appeared as a de facto measure for scholastic achievement. Unlike absolute scoring systems (such as A-level grades) hensachi gave an indication of the probability of getting a place on a particular course at a particular school or university rather than telling applicants where the bar was set in order to have a chance of being offered a place. Private companies quickly saw the opportunity to collate the huge amounts of data needed to obtain accurate hensachi bell curve distributions and began operating practice exams (mogi shiken) in schools across Japan. From the mid-1970s onwards, hensachi increasingly became seen as the source of many educational ‘evils’ in Japan and there were many attempts to ban its use. It was blamed for cramming, examination hell, and a focus on educational scores rather than learning. The system was also being used by teachers and schools to short cut the real examination system. The final section of the paper explores why, despite these concerns, repeated predictions of the demise of hensachi have proved to be premature.
Worsening work conditions and rising levels of job satisfaction? Measuring the Happiness of Academics in Japan
June 2017
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Journal article
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Research in Comparative and International Education
This paper explores some of the issues in measuring the satisfaction levels of academics, specifically academics in Japan, in both a synchronic and a diachronic manner. How can we measure if Japanese academics are happier than those in other professions in Japan today and how have their levels of satisfaction changed compared to twenty-five years ago?
The happiness of Japanese academics: Findings from job satisfaction surveys in 1992 and 2007
April 2017
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Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan
<p style="text-align:justify;">This chapter focuses at the "subjective well-being at work" of Japanese academics through the examination of three major surveys of job satisfaction, undertaken in 1992 and 2007. The three surveys in relation to Japanese academia namely: 2007 The Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey suggests that general levels of job satisfaction in Japan are relatively high, while the International Survey of Academic Profession (AP) data, which for several reasons might be considered to be more comparable to the 1992 Carnegie Survey, but offers less comparability with other countries, draws a less positive picture. The chapter examines some of the major changes that had taken place in the higher education system over the period of 1992 and 2007. It also focuses on job satisfaction as a proxy for well-being at the workplace and adapts Mathews and Izquierdo's four dimensions to the specific context of the Japanese academic workplace.</p>
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Oxford University
October 2016
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Japanese Studies in Britain: A Survey and history
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Education: Anthropological aspects
March 2015
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International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
<p style="text-align:justify;">The discipliine of anthropology has brought a number of important points to bear on the study of education - a relativistic perspective, a holistic approach, and the ethnographic method. At the same time, the study of education has become increasingly common in anthropological accounts, generally under the headings of the study of ethnicity and nationalism, or cognitive and psychological anthropology. This article examines the development of the anthropological study of education and explores why, despite its apparent importance, it is still looking to establish a secure niche as a subfield of the discipline of anthropology.> </p>
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The dog that didn't bark: 3/11 and international students in Japan
January 2014
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Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice
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Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan
May 2012
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Learning from the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
ISBN 978-0-85745-325-9 (hardback : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-85745-326-6 ( ebook) 1. Childhood–Cross-cultural studies. 2. Child psychology–Cross-cultural studies. 3. Child development–Cross-cultural studies. 4. Parenting–Cross- cultural ...
Family & Relationships
A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs
January 2012
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Book
This book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture, the sociology of Japan, Japanese anthropology and the comparative sociology of youth studies.
Family & Relationships
The Changing Relationship between the State and Higher Education in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK
January 2012
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Book
Making Sense of Youth Problems
November 2011
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A Sociology of Japanese Youth
From returnees to NEETs
A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From returnees to NEETs
January 2011
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Book
The Rapid Redrawing of Boundaries in Japanese Higher Education
January 2010
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Journal article
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Japan Forum: the international journal of Japanese studies
The Japanese Professoriate
December 2009
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Chapter
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Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate
The Changing Status of Vocational Higher Education in Contemporary Jpan and the Republic of South Korea
January 2009
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Book
The State of Japanese Welfare, Welfare and the Japanese State