CEAS Staff
Profile
Junko recently joined CEAS as a Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Studies after completing her MA in Sociology (Tokyo, Japan) and PhD in Social Policy (York, U.K.).
Junko’s research interests can be mapped around the intersection of social policy, sociology and gender studies. Her research focuses on how the welfare state can shape the experience of women in relation to care work in contemporary Japan and other East Asian countries. She has also a long-term interest in Japanese civil society, particularly the roles and functions of non-profit organisations (NPOs) and people participating in their activities. Her current research also includes 1) East Asian Database Project (EADP) which aims to organise qualitative and quantitative database for comparative social policy study and 2) a transformation of employments and the labour market in Japan.
Her teaching at CEAS is on Contemporary Japanese Society, which offers a multi-disciplinary approach to study wide ranging social issues in Japan from its social security system, social structure to sub-culture in a comparative perspective. She also teaches qualitative research methods. Junko is general secretary of East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP) that promotes the analysis and the exchange of research on East Asian Social Policy.
Selected Publications
Yamashita, J. (2010) ‘Managing or Generating New Social Risks?: Labour Market Changes and the Japanese Welfare Regime in CHAN, R..C.H, Takahashi, M. and Wang, L. (eds.) Risk and Social Policy in Changing Asian Societies, Ashgate
Yamashita, J. (forthcoming) Kea wāku to shimin sanka [Care work and Citizen Participation] in Seiyama, K. Ueno, C. and Takgawa, C. (eds.) Kokyo Syakaigaku no Siza [A Perspective on Public Sociology] , Tokyo; Tokyo University Press.
Yamashtia, J (forthcoming) NPO to Anpeido Wāku [NPO and Unpaid Work] in Nihei, N. and Yamashita, J. (eds.) Yuragu Rōdō no Kyokai [Unsettled Boundary of Labour], Tokyo; Ōtsuki Shoten
Yamashita J. (2006) ‘Japan: Another ‘lost decade’?’, in Policy World, Summer 2006, Social Policy Association .
Yamashita, J. (2004) 'The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies' by Martha Fineman. A book review published in Journal of Gender Studies Vol.24, (Japanese)
Yamashita, J. ( 2004) Japanese Centre for Independent Living and Older People's Corporative 'Comparing the Use of Personal Social Services by Older People and Disabled People', Japanese Centre for Independent Living: Tokyo. (Main author of the quantitative research report (Japanese).)
