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Ross E. Mouer, Professor of Japanese Studies

Biography
Qualifications
Contact Details
Subjects Taught
Supervision
Research Interests
Publications

Biography

I am an industrial sociologist with wide interests in social stratification, the sociology of work and social inequality in Japan, the nature of Japanese studies and the sociology of knowledge. I have lived in Japan for about 10 years, with nearly seven of those years spent in Tokyo between 1969 and 1976, a turbulent time which saw considerable conflict between labor and management and between citizen movements (such as the anti-pollution movements and the anti-Vietnam war movements) and the establishment.

I have translated four volumes and numerous articles from Japanese to English, many on industrial relations and the nature of work in Japan. I have published a good deal on the nature of nihonjinron (inward-looking theories of Japanese society and national character) from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge and often through collaboration with Professor Yoshio Sugimoto (at LaTrobe University, also in Melbourne).

I have recently completed a jointly authored book on the organisation of work in Japan, and have an interest in theories of translation as they relate to the development of cross-cultural and areas studies and comparative research more broadly. I am currently involved in research on the economics of overseas fee-paying students in Australia.

Qualifications

I received a BA in International Relations from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon (USA), an MA and MALD in Economic Development and a PhD in social Development from the Fletcher School of International Relations (Tufts University) in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). I also have a Diploma in Labor Relations from the Tokyo Labor College. My PhD. was on income distribution in Japan.

Contact details

Room: 416 Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton Campus
Phone: (03) 9905 2271 (international: 61 3 9905 2271)
Email: ross.mouer@arts.monash.edu.au
Fax: (03) 9905 5437 (international: 61 3 9905 5437)
Mailing Address: Professor R. E. Mouer
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
PO Box 11A
Monash University
Australia 3800


Subjects Taught

I teach the following subjects:

In the past I have taught the following subjects at the postgraduate level:

I have also supervised a number of translation projects for JIT5940 Projects in Japanese Interpreting and Translation

At the undergraduate level I have taught the following subjects:

Supervision

Over the years I have enjoyed supervising a range of theses by Honours, MA and PhD students. I am currently supervising four PhD students and three Honours Students. In the past I have supervised PhD theses on professional women in Japan, labour process in Japanese department stores, language maintenance among Japanese children in Melbourne, Japanese feminism at the grassroots level, religious conflict among Japanese in Kyushu, intimate conversation among Japanese, comparisons of native and non-native Japanese language teachers in Victoria, the discourse on international education in Japan, and the way female marriage migrants to Japan define and redefine themselves as aspects of change in Japan. I am currently supervising PhD students conducting research on overseas fee-paying students in Australian schools; localisation and globalisation in maintaining a local craft in Japan; a comparative study of notions of the body and cosmetic surgery in Japan, Australia and Germany; and aspects of democracy in Asia. My preference wherever possible is to be involved in joint supervision, thereby providing students with several perspectives and types of input.

At the Honours level I have supervised about forty-five theses over the past 15 years. The theses have been on a wide range of topics which include

Research interests

I have recently completed a book on the organisation of work in Japan with Professor Kawanishi Hirosuke (Waseda University), a short paper concerned with the direction of translation studies in Australian universities, and directions in which translation studies might develop if they are to be viable in the Australian context, and a jointly authored paper on attempts to legislate for internet security. I am currently involved in research on income distribution in Japan, Australia's selling of secondary education to overseas fee-paying students from Asia, and assessing the English-language literatures on Japanese society.

Publications

Publications Index:

1. Books
2. Edited Volumes
3. Translated Volumes
4. Monographs
5. DEETYA Reports
6. Research Articles
7. Book Reviews
8. Translated Articles or Chapters in Books
9. Other Articles

Notes:

  1. "*" indicates manuscripts coauthored or edited with Professor Yoshio Sugimoto. Both authors are considered equal in status and name order has always been rotated.
  2. "+" indicates refereed manuscripts.
  3. "FC" indicates forthcoming publications which have been accepted for publication.

Publications Index

1. Books

2004 The Sociology of Work in Japan: A Meso-Level Approach to Labor Process, co-authored with Kawanishi Hirosuke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

1995* Nihonjinron no Hoteishiki (The Structure of Nihonjinron)(Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo), 347 pp.

1986* Images of Japanese Society : A Study in the Construction of Social Reality (London: Kegan Paul International), 552 pp.

1982* Nihonjin wa "Nihonteki" ka : Tokushuron o Koete, Tagenteki Bunseki e (How "Japanese" are the Japanese? A Critical Reappraisal of Theories Stressing Japan's Uniqueness and a Multidimensional Understanding for Japanese Society) (Tokyo: Tokyo Keizai Shinposha), 298 pp.

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2. Edited Volumes

2000 Nihonjinron ni Kansuru Junisho---Tsusetsu ni Igi Ari (An Overview of the Theories on Japanese Society as an Holistic Entity) (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo), 377 pp.

1992 Japanese Images of Australia: Japanese writing on Australia 1991, Asian Perceptions of Australia No. 2 (Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute), 109 pp.

1991 Japanese Images of Australia: A Colelction of Japanese Writings on Australia 1990, Asian Perceptions of Australia No. 1 (Melbourne: Monash Asia Institue), 25 pp.

1990* The MFP Debate: A Background Reader (Melbourne: LaTrobe University Press), 164 pp.

1989* Constructs for Understanding Japan (London: Kegan Paul International), 396 pp.

1987* Kojin, Kanjin, Nihonjin (Individuals and Interpersonal Relations in Japanese Society) (Tokyo: Gakuyo Shobo), 337 pp.

1984 Japan's Impact on the World (Brisbane: Japanese Studies Association of Australia), 228 pp. (coedited with Alan Rix).

1980* Japanese Society : Reappraisals and New Directions, a special issue of Social Analysis (nos. 5/6: December), 226 pp.

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3. Translated Volumes

1992 The Enterprise Union, by Kawanishi Hirosuke (London: Kegan Paul International), 467 pp.

1980 The Labor Maret in Japan: Selected Readings, edited by Nishikawa Shunsaku (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press), 277 pp.

1975 Industrialization and Labor-Management Relations in Japan, by Nakayama Ichiro (Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour), 390 pp.

1974 Japan Labor Statistics (Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour), 204 pp.

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4. Monographs

1995*+ Nihonjnron at the End of the Twentieth Century: a Multicultural Perspective, Asian studies Papers---Research Series, No. 4 (Melbourne: La Trobe University, School of Asian Studies), 38 pp..

1986+ Labor Policy in Japan, coauthored with Ono Tsuneo (Melbourne: Japanese Studies Centre), 53 pp.

1981a+* Japanese Society: Stereotypes and Realities (Melbourne: Japanese Studies Centre), 41 pp.

1981b+ Nihon Shakai no Hikaku Kenkyu--Ima no Jokyo to Kongo no Kadai ni Tsuite (The Comparative Study of Japanese Society: The Present Situation and Future Prospects), Gakujutsu Kokusai Koryu Sanko Shiryo Kashu (International Academic Exchange Monograph Series), no. 68. (Tokyo: Meiji University, February), 37 pp.

1980+* The Limits of Japanology as a Paradigm for Understanding Japanese Society, Research Paper no. 64 (Canberra: Australia-Japan Economic Relations Research Project, the Australian University, February), 42 pp.

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5. DEETYA Reports

1997 "Monash University", in Directory of Japanese Studies in Australia, edited by the Australia-Japan Research Centre (Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, in association with the Australia-Japan Research Centre, the Australian National University), pp.64-71.

1996 Warrnambool From the Japanese Perspective: A Report to theWarrnambool Office for Economic Development, jointly authored with William Howard. A background industry report prepared for the City of Warrnambool (Melbourne: The Southern Cross Institute for International Understanding), 21 pp..

1988+ Management and Innovation: Japan and the West, coauthored with Craig Littler. A Multi-Function Polis background paper for the Director-General, Premier's Department, Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Premier's Department, July), 43 pp..

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6. Research Articles

2004a+ "Internet Security: Responding to the hack attack in Japan and Australia", co-authored with Megan Esson, in Cultures and Technologies in Asia: The Paradibm Shifts, edited by Marika Vicziany (Melbourne: Monash University Press), pp93-101.

2004b+ "Globalisation and the Japanese Model", in Globalization in Asia: impacts and consequences, edited by Chris Nyland and Gloria Davies (Melbourne: Edwardr EIgar, scheduled for December 2003).

2004c+ "The Crisis Facing Translation Studies: On the Nexus between the Teaching of Translation and Translation Studies at Australian Universities", in Worlds of Reading: On the Theory, History and Sociology of Cultural Practice, a festschrift for Walter Veit (Frankkfurt: Peter Lang Publishers), pp. xx-xx.

2003a+ "Civil Society in Japan", co-authored with Yoshio Sugimoto, in Civil Society in Asia, edited by David Schak and Wayne Hudson (London: Ashgate), pp. 209-224.

2003b+ "Change and Challenge Facing the Japanese Labor Market in the Global Era", co-authored with Kawanishi Hirosuke, Ningen Kagaku Kenkyu(Waseda Studies in Human Sciences)(vol. 20, no. 1), pp. 59-108.

2003c+ "Review of Sate Toshiaki's Fubyudo Shakai---Sayonara Sochuryu" (Japan , the Inegalitarian Society: Farewell to the Mass Middle Class), Social Studies Japan Journal ( University of Tokyo )(forthcoming in April), 10pp

2000 "Nihonjin wa Nihonteki ka kara Nijunenkan" (Twenty Years Since Nihonjin wa Nihonteki ka), in Ninhonjin Ron ni Kansuru Junisho (An Overview of Teories of the Japanese as a Homogenous Society)(Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo), pp. 361-366.

1999+ State of the Union Movement in Japan: Is There a Future?", co-authored with Kawanishi Hirosuke, Ningen Kagaku Kenkyu (vol. 17, no. 1), pp. 1334.

1998+ "Le mouvement syndical au Japon. Quel avenir? (The Labor Movement in Japan: Where to From Here ?), Sociologie et societes (vol. 30, no. 2: Autumn), pp. 95-112.

1997 "Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Comparing Japan", in Work of the Future: Global Perspectives, edited by Paul James, Walter Veit and Steve Wright (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin), pp. 139-156.

1996a "The Multi-Dimensional Stratification Model: A Focus on Variation and the Comparative Perspective", jointly authored with Bruce Wearne and Tsuboi Tsyoshi, in Japanese Culture and Society: Models of Interpretation, edited by Josef Kreiner and Hons Dieter –lschleger (Tokyo: Philipp-Franz-van-Siebold-Stiftung Deutsches Institut for Japanstudien), pp.189-222.

1996b+ "Postmodernism or Ultramodernism: The Japanese Dilemma at Work", in Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity, edited by Yoshio Sugimoto and Johann P. Arnason (London: Kegan Paul International), pp. 32-64.

1996a*+ "Nihonjinron at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Multicultural Perspective", in Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity, edited by Yoshio Sugimoto and Johann P. Arnason (London: Kegan Paul International), pp. 237-269.

1994+ "Shokubanaiseikatsu to Kateinaiseikatsu no Rinku---Beinichi Pan Kojo no Hikaku Kenkyu" (Factory Life and Family Life---An Examination of the Linkages: A Comparison of American and Japanese Workers in Bread Factories),Nihonrodo Shakai Gakkai Nenpo (The Annual Review of the Japan Association for the Sociology of Work)(vol. 5: November), pp. 75- 103.

1994 "La Sante' Dans L'Industrie" (Occupational Health and Safety), in Medicine et Societe au Japan (Medicine and Society in Japan), edited by Gerard Siary and Herve Benhamou (Paris: Editions L' Harmattan), pp. 205-216.

1993* Democracy: The Japanese Problematique", ASAA Review (vol. 7, no. 1: July), pp.58-64.

1992a "Including Gender in Courses on Modern Japanese Society", in Gendering Japanese Studies, edited by Vera Mackie, papers of the Japanese Studies Centre. no. 19 (Melbourne: Japanese Studies Centre, pp. 85-97.

1992b+ "Learning from Australia: A New Outlook from Japan?" in Japanese Images of Australia: Japanese Writings on Australia 1991, edited by Ross Mouer, Asian Perceptions of Australia No. 2 (Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute), pp. 1-26.

1992c "Australia as an Asian Nation: Fantasy or Reality?" The Shell Symposium on Australia and Asia, edited by Shell Australia (Melbourne: Shell Australia), pp. 50-83.

1992d+ "Narrowing the Focus on Japan Literacy: A framework for Empirical Research", in The Relevance of Japanese Language Teaching, edited by J.V. Neustupny, Papers of the Japanese Studies centre no. 18 (Melbourne: Japanese Studies centre, Monash University), pp. 54-62.

1990a+ "Teaching About Women in Japanese Society", JSAA Newsletter, special issue on teaching about Japanese women (vol. 10. no. 3: December), pp.24-36.

1990b+ "`Japan Literacy' in a Corporatist Asia", in The MFP Debate: A Background Reader, edited by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto (Melbourne: LaTrobe University Press), pp. 49-63.

1990c* "Toward a Debate on the Multifunction Polis", in The MFP Debate: A Background Reader, edited by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto (Melbourne: LaTrobe University Press), pp. 1-12.

1990d+ "Beyond a Corporatist Relationship to the Japanese", in Technocratic Dreaming: of Very Fast Trains and Japanese Designer Cities, edited by Paul James (Melbourne: Left Book Club), pp. 193-203.

1990f "Polis, Function and People: A One-Day Workshop on the MFP", JSAA Newsletter (Vol. 10, no. 1: June), pp. 4-10.

1990g+ "Japan Literacy: What Is It?" JSAA Newsletter (vol. 9, no. 4: December 1989), pp. 1-12.

1989a+ "The Japanese Model of Industrial Relations: Warning or Opportunity",Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Sciences (in press).

1989b* "Cross Currents in the Study of Japanese Society", in Constructs for Understanding Japanese Society, edited by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto (London: Kegan Paul International, 1989), pp. 1-35.

1989c+* "A Multi-Dimensional View of Stratification: a Framework for Comparative Analysis", in Constructs for Understanding Japanese Society, edited by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto (London: Kegan Paul International, 1989), pp. 157-201.

1989d "From Mikado to Emperor: A Measure of Asia Literacy", JSAA Newsletter (vol. 9, no. 1: March 1989), pp. 29-33.

1988+ "Osutorariajin no Mita Nihonjin - Keisai Kaihatsu to Seikatsu Kozo to no Kanren" (The Japanese Life Style from an Australian Perspective on The Relationship Between Economic Development and Standards of Living), Shunju Seikatsagaku (the official journal of the Japanese Society for the Studyd of Everyday Life) (no.2: Spring), pp.138-149.

1987a+ "Nihon ni okeru Roshi Kankei no Genkyo: Soto Kara mita Kore Kara no Kadai" (The State of Industrial Relations Research in Japan: Some Comments from Outside Japan), Josai Daigaku Daigakuin Kenkyu Nenpo (no. 3: March), pp. 103-118.

1987b+ "Kokusaika Jidai ni okeru Kinbensei" ("Japanese Diligence" and Japan's Internationalization), Kyoto no Rodo Keizai (no. 90: January), pp. 26-35.

1987c+ "Osutoraria ni Okeru Nihon Kenkyu: Sono Genjo to Tenbo" (Japanese Studies in Australia: The Present and the Future), Fukuoka UNESCO (vol. 22: January), pp. 36-46.

1986+ "Working Women in Japan and Male-Female Wage Differentials",in Class, Ideology and Women in Asian Studies, edited by Gail Pearson and Lenore Manderson (Hong Kong: Asian Research Organization).

1985+ "Australian Images of Japan", Osutoraria Kenkyu Kiyo (vol.111: December), pp. 147-168. Coauthored with Frank Foley.

1984a "Japanese Studies as an Australian Choice", JSAA Newsletter(vol. 4, no. 2: June), pp. 11-25.

1984b+* "Kuni o Koeru `Hikaku Shugi' no Shiten" (An Internationalized Approach to Comparative Research), Shiso no Kagaku (no. 380: February), pp. 20-29.

1984c+ "Nihonjinron ni Okeru Ondaku no Sentaku" (The Implicit Choices in Theories of the Japanese), Shiso no Kagaku (no. 380: February), pp. 37-47.

1983a "Women in the Labor Force: From the Meiji Period Through World War II", in Encyclopedia of Japan, edited by Gen Itasaka et al.(Tokyo: Kodansha International), vol. 8, pp. 264-265.

1983b+ "`Orientalism' as Knowledge: Lessons for Japanologists?" Keio Journal of Politics (no. 4), pp. 11-31.

1983c* "`Internationalization' as a Japanese Ideology", a chapter in The Challenge of Japan's Internationalization: Organization and Culture, edited by Mannari Hiroshi and Harumi Befu (Tokyo: Kwansei University and Kodansha International), pp. 267-297.

1980a* "Competing Models for Understanding Japanese Society: Some Reflections on Where to Go", Social Analysis (nos. 5/6: December), pp. 183-192.

1980b+* "Multiple Dimensions in the Delineation of Job Situations in Japan and the United States", Social Anaylsis (nos. 5/6: December), pp. 63-75.

1980c* "Reappraising Images of Japanese Society", Social Analysis(nos. 5/6: December), pp. 1-14.

1980d+* "Nihonshakairon no Saikochiku o Mezashite" (Toward a New Theory of Japanese Society), Kikan Kuraishisu (no. 6: Winter), pp. 200-208.

1980e* "Nihonjin---Theorien als Ideologie: Die Problembeladene Discussion um das `Gruppen-Verhalten', Gedankenmuster der Vor- und Nackhriegszeit, die sich gleichen" (The Japanese---Theories as Ideology: Problems in the Discussion of Group Behaviour as a Source of Continuity in the Prewar and Postwar Study of Japanese Society), Kagami: Japanischer Zeithschriften-Spiegel (Vol. 7, no. 2: Fall), pp. 25-29.

1980f+* "Some Methodological Reservations Concerning Nakane Chie's Japanese Society", LaTrobe University Working Papers in Sociology, no. 53 (Melbourne: La Trobe University, September).

1980g+ "Osutoraria no Daigakusei no Tainichi Imeji" (Images of Japan in Australia: A Cross-Cultural Study of Students' Perceptions in Five Countries),Nihon Shakai Shinri Gakkai: Soritsu 20 Shunen Kinen Daikai Happyo Ronbun Shu (Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference of the Japan Association of Social Psychologists) (Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku), pp. 35-38. Coauthored with Iwao Sumiko and Hagiwara Shigeru.

1979a+* "Doi Takeo Setsu e no Hohoronteki Gimon" (A Methodological Critique of the Research of Doi Takeo), Gendai no Me (vol. 20, no. 9: September), pp. 200-213.

1979b+* "Nakane Chie Setsu e no Hohoronteki Gimon" (Some Methodological Problems in the Theory of Nakane Chie), Gendai no Me (vol. 20, no. 7: July), pp. 124-135.

1979c+* "Kutabare Japannorojii---`Nihonjin Doshitsuron' no Hohoteki Mondaiten" (The Limits of Theories Emphasizing the Homogeneous Nature of `The Japanese': Some Comments on the Need for Analyzing the Dimensions of Inequality and Variance), Gendai no Me (vol. 20, no. 6: June), pp. 134-145.

1979d+* "Japanology: A Methodoligical Deadend for Theories Assuming Uniformity Among the Japanese", Griffith University School of Modern Asian Studies Teaching Translation Series (Japanese Set: no. 2) (Brisbane: School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, November).

1976+ "Kokusai Rodo Undo to Komyunikeshon no Yakuwari" (Communications in the International Labor Movement), Nihon Rodo Kyokai Zasshi (vol. 18, no. 8: August), pp. 2-12.

1975a+ "Fubyodo ni Taisuru Shakai no Nintai Gendo: Shotoku Bunpu ni Okeru Shakaigakuteki Shosokumen" (The Theory of Inequality and Social Tension: Some Social Considerations Affecting the Ability of Societies to Endure Inequality),Keizai Kenkyu (Economic Research Quarterly) (The Economics Journal of Hitotsubashi University) (vol. 26, no. 2: April), pp. 108-117.

1975b+ "Nihon ni Okeru Ka-i Taikei Betsu no Shotoku Bunpu no Jotai: Kakei Chosa Kenkyu o Tsujite" (A Subsystems Approach to Income Distribution in the Japanese Setting: A Study of the FIES Data, 1963-1972), Kikan Riron Keizaigaku (The Quarterly Journal of Theoretical Economics) (vol. 25, no. 1: April), pp. 30-44.

1974a+ "Income Distribution in Japan: An Examination of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey Data, 1963-1971 (III)", Keio Economic Studies(vol. 11, no. 2: Fall), pp. 21-34.

1974b+ "Income Distribution in Japan: An Examination of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey Data, 1963-1971 (II)", Keio Economic Studies (vol. 11, no. 1: Spring), pp. 9-28.

1973a+ "Kakei Chosa ni okeru Shotoku Bunpu to Setai Seiinsu no Kanren" (The Relationship of Household Size and Income Distribution in Japan: A Look at the FIES Data), Mita Gakkai Zasshi (vol. 66, no. 10: October), pp. 16-34.

1973b+ "Income Distribution in Japan: An Examination of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey Data, 1963-1971 (I)", Keio Economic Studies (vol. 10, no. 1: Spring), pp. 87-109.

1971a+ "Economic Thought in Tokugawa Japan (III)", KBS Bulletin (no. 105: December 1970-January 1971), pp. 1-15. Coauthored with Gianni Fodella.

1971b+ "Economic Thought in Tokugawa Japan (II)", KBS Bulletin (no. 104: October-November), pp. 1-16. Coauthored with Gianni Fodella.

1970+ "Economic Thought in Tokugawa Japan (I)", KBS Bulletin (no. 102: June-July), pp. 1-23. Coauthored with Gianni Fodella.

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7. Book Reviews

2002 "Review of Hiroshi Komai's Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan", Pacific Affairs (vol. 75, no. 3: Fall), pp. 462-463.

1997a "Review of Ikko Shimizu 's The Dark Side of JapaneseBusiness: Three 'Industry Novels '-Silver Sanctuary, The Ibis Cage, Keiretsu [translated by Tamae K. Prindle]", Asian Studies Review(vol. 21, no. 1: July), pp. 193196.

1997b "Review of Gardon Mathews' What Maks Life Worth Living? HowJapanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds", Journal of Japanese Studies (vol. 23, no. 1: Winter), pp. 210-214.

1994 Review of W. Dean Kinzley's Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition", Journal of Far Eastern Business (vol. 1, no. 2: Winter), pp. 92-93.

1993b "Review of Richard Lambert and Sarah Jan Moore's Foreign Language in the Workplace", Labour and Industry (vol. xx, no. xx: ), pp.

1993a "Review of Michael Stephen's Education and the Future of Japan", Pacific Affairs (vol. 65, no. 4: Fall winter 1992-1993), pp. 567-568

1992a "Review of Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan', Asian Studies Review (vol. 15, no. 3: April), pp. 208-209.

1989 Review of Peter Dale's The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness (London: Croom Helm, 1986), Pacific Affairs (vol. 61, no. 4: Winter), pp. 691-693.

1988 Review of Michael Montgomery's Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate (London: Christopher Helm, 1988), The Age (1 October, 1988), Saturday Extra, p. 15.

1987 "Between Two Worlds", a review of Edwin Reichauer's My LifeBetween Japan and America (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), in The Asahi Evening News (23 January 1987), p. 7.

1985a Review of Institutions For Change in Japanese Society, edited by George De Vos (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1984), in Pacific Affairs (vol. 58, no. 4: Winter), pp. 705-707.

1985b Review of Robert Smith's Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), in Pacific Affairs (vol. 58, no. 2: Summer), pp. 333-334.

1985c Review of Robert Cole's Work, Mobility and Participation: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), in ASAA Review (vol. 8, no. 3: April), pp. 73-74.

1978a Book review of Guides to Japanese Culture, a volume of synposes introducing 45 volumes on Japanese history, language, intellectual thought and social structure, in ASAA Review (vol. 2, no. 2: November), pp. 114-115.

1978b Book review of Japan Reader, a two volume anthology prepared by Jon Livingston, Joe Moore, and Felica Oldfather (Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia, 1976), in Hemisphere (vol. 21, no. 4: April), pp. 35-36.

1977 "Nihon Roshi Kankei Riron: Sono Riron no Hitsuyosei" (The Theories of Labor-Management Relations in Japan: Toward a Meta-theory), Nihon Rodo Kyokai Zasshi (vol. 19, no. 11: November), pp. 54-58.

1976 Review article on methodologies in the study of national labour movements which focuses on The International Labor Movement in Transition: Essays on Africa, Europe and South America , edited by Adolf Sturmthal and G. Scoville (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), Nihon Rodo Kyokai Zasshi (vol. 17, no. 3: March), pp. 70-75.

1975 "Comments on Mizoguchi's Paper, `The Distribution of Household Income'", in Income Distribution, Employment and Economic Development in Southest Asia, vol. II (Tokyo: The Japan Economic Research Center, July), pp. 502-511.

1973 "Pollution in Japan", Japan Foundation Newsletter (vol. 1, no. 2: October), pp. 9-10.

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8. Translated Articles or Chapters in Books

1997 "Who Are the Japanese", translated from Zainichi Kankoku Chosenjin (Koreans in Japan) (Tokyo: Chuokokoronskay 1993), Chapter 1, Translation Series, No.1 (Melbourne: Japanese Studies Centre, 1997).

1992a "The Report on Australia in the Japanese Governments Annual Blue Paper on Foreign Affairs", by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Japanese Images of Australia: A Collection of Japanese Writing on Australia 1990, edited by Ross Mouer, Asian Perceptions of Australia No. 1 (Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute), pp. 13-15.

1992b "The Multifunction Polis---A vision for Japan-Australia Cooperation: Behind the Rush of Four States to Obtain the MFP Site", by Futamura Katsu hiko, in Japanese Images of Australia: A Collection of Japanese Writings on Australia 1990, edited by Ross Mouer, Asian Perceptions of Australia No. 1 (Melbourne: Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies), pp. 17-20.

1989 "The Showa Emperor and the Political Role of the Emperor", by Ito Takashi, JSAA Newsletter (vol. 9, no.1: March 1989), pp. 14-16.

1984 "Reflections on Thought in the Postwar Period", Chapter One in Hidaka Rokuro's The Price of Affluence: Dilemmas of Contemporary Japan (Tokyo: Kodansha international), pp. 15-34.

1980a "The Distribution and Movement of the Population in Japan's Three Major Metropolitan Areas", by Ishimizu Teruo and Ishihara Jun, in The Geography of Japan, edited by the Japan Association of Geographers (Tokyo: Teikoku Shoin, Publishers), pp. 347-378.

1980b "The Location of Modern Industry in Japan", by Miyakawa Yasuo, in The Geography of Japan, edited by the Japan Association of Geographers (Tokyo: Teikoku Shoin, Publishers), pp. 265-298.

1980c "Internal Migration and the Population Distribution in Japan", by Kawabe Hiroshi, in The Geography of Japan, edited by the Japan Association of Geographers (Tokyo: Teikoku Shoin, Publishers), pp. 379-389.

1980d "Jiba Sangyo: Localized Industry", by ide Sakuo and Takeuchi Atsuhiko, in The Geography of Japan, edited by the Japan Association of Geographers (Tokyo: Teikoku Shoin, Publishers), pp. 299-319.

1979 "Japanology: A Methodoligical Deadend for Theories Assuming Uniformity Among the Japanese", by Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross Mouer, School of Modern Asian Studies (Griffith University) Teaching Translation Series (Japanese series no. 2: November), pp. 1-32.

1975 "A Woman for the Blue Stockings", by Miyamoto Ken, The Japan Interpreter (vol. 10, no. 2: Autumn), pp. 190-204. Translated with members of the Asahi Study Group.

1974a "The `Japanese' in `Japanese Politics'", by Nakamura Kikuo, The Keio Journal of Politics (no. 1), pp. 12-28.

1974b "A Bibliography on the Japanese Economy", by Takasuka Yoshihiro and Teranishi Juro, as Chapter Three in An Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies, Vol. I, Part I (Tokyo: The Japan Foundation), pp. 29-48.

1974c "A Bibliography on Japanese Society", by Aoi Kazuo and Naoi Yu, as Chapter Four in An Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies, Vol. I, Part I (Tokyo: The Japan Foundation), pp. 49-67.

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9. Other Articles

1988 "Conference on Japan and the World System", JSAA Newsletter(vol. 8, no. 4: December 1988), pp. 8-13.

1984a "Tonan Ajia Kara Mita Nihon Kenkyu" (Japanese Studies: A Southeast Asian Perspective), Mainichi Shimbun (2 March), p. 5.

1984b "Rukku Iisuto' ka Rukku Besuto' ka". ('Look East' or `Look Best'),Mainichi Shimbun (3 March), p. 4.

1984c "Some Reflections from the Pattaya Seminar", JSAA Newsletter (vol. 4, no. 2: June), pp. 4-9. Published in a slightly altered format with Banyat Surakavit as "The Pattaya Seminar on Japanese Studies in the ASEAN Nations: Some Reflections", Center News (a publication of the Japan Foundation's Japanese Studies Center) (vol. 9, no. 3: May), pp. 1-4; and as "Some Reflections on the Pattaya Seminar on Japanese Studies in the ASEAN Nations", Thai Japanese Studies (special issue: March), pp. 76-82.

1983a "Orientalism and the Knowing of Asia: A View of Japanese Studies",ASAA Review (vol. 7, no. 1: July), pp. 7-11.

1983b "The Study of Japanese Society: Figments of Whose Imagination?" The Japan Foundation Newsletter (vol. 10, no. 5: January 1983), pp. 1-9. Also published in The East (vol. 19, no. 7/8: September 1983), pp. 62-67.

1981a "Ichikawa Fusae and Women in Japan", Women in Asia Newsletter (no. 2: October), pp. 4-6.

1981b "Japanese Society: Stereotypes and Realities", Dentsu Japan: Marketing/Advertising (no. 18: January), pp. 26-30.

1980a* "The May 1980 Canberra Symposium on Alternative Models for Understanding Japanese Society", Centre News (vol. 5, no.5: October), pp. 2-3.

1980b "Nihon Shakairon no Atarashii Chihei o Mezashite" (New Models for Understanding Japanese Society), Asahi Janaru (The Asahi Journal) (vol. 22, no. 36: 12 September), pp. 26-33. Coauthored with Befu Harumi, Yoshio Sugimoto and Kawamura Nozomu.

1980c * "The Future of Japanese Studies: Philosophy, Journalism, Science or Art?" Center News (Journal/Newsletter of the Japanese Studies Center of the Japan Foundation) (vol. 4, no. 8: March), pp. 2-6.

1980d * "Ideorogii to shite no Nihonjinron--Kyanbera Kokusai Shinpojiumu Hokoku" (Theories on the Japanese as Ideology: A Report on the International Symposium in Canberra), Mainichi Shimbun (8 July), p. 4.

1980e * "Nihon Shakai wa Tokushu Dokutoku Ka" (How Unique is Japanese Society?), Mainichi Shimbun (12 January), p. 4.

1975 "The 1975 Regional Conference on Industrial Relations". Japan Labor Bulletin (vol. 14, no. 6: June), pp. 5-8. Also as "Ajia Shokoku ni Okeru Gaishikei Kigyo to Rodo Mondai: Nanajugonen Ajia Chiiki Roshi Kankei Kenkyu Kaigi Kara" (Labour Problems and Foreign Enterprises in Asian Countries),Nihon Rodo Zasshi (vol. 17, no. 8: August 1975), pp. 2-6; also appeared with the original English title in Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations (no. 7: 1976), pp. 473-481.

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