| Artikel | Autor | Seiten |
| Mind the gap. Stratification and social inequalities in Japan |
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| Editorial |
Coulmas, Florian |
1-2 |
| Stability and increasing fluidity in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system |
Sato,Yoshimichi |
7-21 |
| Preface |
Holthus, Barbara / Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina |
3-6 |
| When dismissal becomes a business transaction: Analysis of the processes and consequences of haken-giri under the global recession |
Kojima, Shinji |
23-45 |
| Divided society model and social cleavages in Japanese politics: No alignment by social class, but dealignment of rural-urban division |
Chiavacci, David |
47-74 |
| Eine andere Form der Ungleichheit: Behinderung und soziale Stratifikation in Japans kakusa shakai-Diskussion |
Zachmann, Urs Matthias |
75-98 |
| Understanding buraku inequality: Improvements and challenges |
Bondy, Christopher |
99-113 |
| From the traditions of J-horror to the representation of kakusa shakai in Kurosawa's film Tokyo Sonata |
Rosenbaum, Roman |
115-136 |
| Gender and class in Miura Atsushi's karyuĆ» shakai [low-stream society]: Literature review |
Schad-Seifert, Annette |
137-152 |
| Collaboration between Local and Non-Local Actors in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial |
Klien, Susanne |
153-178 |
| Constructing difference in Japan: Literary counter-images of the Okinawa-boom |
Hein, Ina |
179-204 |
| The personal is political in Kinuta o utsu onna [The cloth fuller]: A 'little narrative' by zainichi Korean writer Lee Hoe Sung |
Foxworth, Elise |
205-221 |