Power in Contemporary Japan

Gill Steel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University. She previously taught in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo. She co-authored Changing Politics in Japan (2010) with Ikuo Kabashima and co-edited Democratic Reform in Japan (2008) with Sherry Martin.

• 1.  Power and Change.- 2. Contesting Children’s Citizenship Education: What Should Japanese Children Know?.- 3. Political Socialization.- 4. Negotiating Technology Use in Families.- 5. Who Does the Dishes? Fairness and Household Chores.- 6. Power over Family Policy: Governing of or Governing through Individuals.- 7. Creating Community at Daycare: Deflecting the Power of the State.- 8. Workers and Unions.- 9. Examining Power in Hierarchical Social Networks in East Asia.- 10. The Gender Triad: Men, Women, and Corporations.- 11. Who—if anyone—is in charge? Evolving Discourses of Political Power and Bureaucratic Delegation in Postwar Japanese Policymaking.- 12. Holding on to Power: Politicians and Re-election.- 13. Selling the Idea of Local Power: Decentralization Reforms since the 1990s.- 14. Japan in the World: Soft Power, Hard Power.