Akihiro Ogawa

New Frontiers in Japanese Studies

Akihiro Ogawa, Philip Seaton

Book  |  2020

Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’..

Introduction: Envisioning new frontiers in Japanese Studies

Akihiro Ogawa, Philip Seaton

Book Chapter  |  2020

The introductory chapter clarifies this book’s aims and scope. By ‘new frontiers in Japanese Studies’ we are referring to a shift ..

As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2020  |  ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL-JAPAN FOCUS

This paper argues the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has raised people’s awareness of concerns over radiation exposure as a form of social mo..

‘Community power’: Renewable energy policy and production in post-Fukushima Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2020

Japan has assumed a central position within global discourses on energy since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that..

[Book Review]: Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-Emerging from Invisibility, (David Chiavacci and Julia Obinger (Eds). London: Routledge, 2018.)

Akihiro OGAWA

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Science Japan Journal

Civil Society: Past, Present, and Future

Akihiro Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2019

Civil Society and Reconciliation: Rethinking History to Embrace Memory – Voices from Post-war Japan, Germany, and Italy

Claudia Astarita, Akihiro Ogawa, Hiroko Aihara

Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video  |  2019

Lasting reconciliation with former enemies after a war is a difficult and often distressful process. Peace is not a top-down pract..

「アクションリサーチ」の実践現場から—持続可能な学びへの挑戦

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2018

Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia

A Ogawa

Book  |  2018

The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding s..

Introduction

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2018

Security Paradigms and Social Movements: The Changing Nature of Japanese Peace Activism

A Ogawa

Journal article  |  2018  |  Asian Journal of Social Science

In 2014, Japan’s cabinet approved a significant change to national security policy. Previously barred from using military force, e..

Media Side-lines the Sit in Protest in Takae, Okinawa

A OGAWA

Book Chapter  |  2017

Freedom. in. Contemporary. Japan. In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, ce..

Okinawa road map leads to another dead end

A OGAWA

Journal article  |  2016  |  Asian Currents

Japan’s Awakening Protest Movement

A OGAWA

Journal article  |  2016  |  Asian Currents

Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan Risk, Community, and Knowledge

A Ogawa

Book  |  2015

Explores the trend of lifelong learning in Japan as a means to deal with risk in a neoliberal era. Akihiro Ogawa explores Japan’s ..

East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES

New Journalism in Japan: Using Independent Digital Sources for Social Research

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2014

「文化ボランティア全国交流会」報告

A OGAWA

Report  |  2014

The right to evacuation: The self-determined future of post-Fukushima Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2014  |  Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Civil society: Past, present, and future

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2014

A Fulfilling Case of Action Research in Japan

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2014

In der Alter(n)sforschung ist nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung ein Anstieg der Forschungsbeiträge..

Lifelong Learning in Tokyo A Satisfying Engagement with Action Research in Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2013  |  ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION-JOURNAL FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN POLICY AND PRACTICE

Demanding a safer tomorrow: Japan’s anti-nuclear rallies in the summer of 2012 (Respond to this article at http://www. therai. org. uk/at/debate)

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2013  |  Anthropology Today

Should Japan continue to generate nuclear power? This was a question raised multiple times during the summer of 2012, almost a yea..

提言: 文化ボランティアのこれから—アクションリサーチの可能性

A OGAWA

Report  |  2013

Young precariat at the forefront: Anti-nuclear rallies in post-Fukushima Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2013  |  Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

Japan suffered a catastrophic disaster on March 11, 2011. The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation leakage from the Fukushim..

Risk management by a neoliberal state: Construction of new knowledge through lifelong learning in Japan

A Ogawa

Journal article  |  2013  |  Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

This article examines the current developments in Japan's lifelong learning policy and practices. I argue that promoting lifelong ..

Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2013  |  Political Studies Review

座談会：社会教育を元気にするイベント

A OGAWA

Report  |  2013

Peace, a Contested Identity: Japan’s Constitutional Revision and Grassroots Peace Movements

A OGAWA

Book Chapter  |  2012

Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics is an interdisciplinary collection that examines various aspects of 21st centu..

Facilitating self-regulated learning: An exploratory case of teaching a university course on Japanese Society.

A Ogawa

Journal article  |  2011  |  International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This paper explores practical strategies that can be used by university teachers to facilitate student-centered, self-regulated le..

Peace, a Contested Identity: Japan’s Constitutional Revision and Grassroots Peace Movements

A Ogawa

Journal article  |  2011  |  Peace & Change

The new prominence of the civil sector in Japan

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2011

Protecting the Right to Live Peacefully: A Report from Takae, Okinawa

Yasushi Ikeo, Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2010  |  Global Change, Peace and Security

The construction of citizenship through volunteering: The case of lifelong learning

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2009

Japan's new lifelong learning policy: Exploring lessons from the European knowledge economy

A Ogawa

Journal article  |  2009  |  International Journal of Lifelong Education

The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan

A Ogawa

Book  |  2009

"Induced" voluntarism: A new role for schools?

A Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2008

スウェーデンの若年者失業問題

A OGAWA

Report  |  2008

Initiating Change: Doing Action Research in Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2006

When the NPO Law Sinks In: Japanese Civil Society, Shimin, and Neoliberalism

A OGAWA

Report  |  2005

Invited by the state: Institutionalizing volunteer subjectivity in contemporary Japan

Akihiro Ogawa

Journal article  |  2004  |  Asian Anthropology