Hidetada Shimizu
Biographic Data
| ID | 100725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hidetada Shimizu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hidetada |
| FAMILY NAME | Shimizu |
| SIGNATURE | SHIMIZU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2470-0776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infrastructuring AI and Robotics for Health and Everyday Life
This article examines how emerging infrastructural AI and robotics for health and everyday life are proposed and negotiated, drawing on ethnographic research within the Japanese Awareness AI Project. The project envisages distributed assistance relying on continuous measurement of bodily states, aiming to make technological systems recede into the background. The analysis reveals how the project envisions bodies and machines as tightly coupled, y…
Explaining depression in the language of burnout
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in diversifying the understanding and discussion about the causes of depression to move beyond biomedical determinism-a view that biomedical factors are the ultimate cause of an individual's depression. There is increasing emphasis on diversity in how people seek to articulate the causes of depression to incorporate non-biomedical dimensions. Furthermore, the biomedical understanding of depression …
Cultural models of nature among food producers in Japan
The medicalisation of everyday life
Narrative reconstruction of mental illness as a work‐stress‐induced disorder
Stress‐induced mental illnesses have become the focus of increasing international attention, particularly in Japan since the 1990s, where judiciary cases and welfare‐state initiatives established causal links between work stress and mental illness. However, how individuals retrospectively construct this causality remains a marginal topic in the literature. This ethnographic article explores the ways in which male workers seeking compensation for …
Immortal Wishes
What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan
On the basis of the TIMSS Case Study Project data collected in the United States, Japan, and Germany in 1994–1995, this article examines the phenomenon of tracking as part of curricular differentiation and student placement practices in public K–12 school systems. The authors document clear national differences in differentiation and placement measures and summarize the history of conflict over those measures. Analysis of respondent perceptions a…
Japanese Adolescent Boys' Senses of Empathy (Omoiyari) and Carol Gilligan's Perspectives on the Morality of Care
This study replicated the interview method of Carol Gilligan and her colleagues to examine the nature of the care perspective in Japanese adolescents' real-life experiences of moral conflicts and decision making. Four emergent themes that contradicted Gilligan's theoretical perspectives were identified: (1) both Japanese male and female adolescents showed what Gilligan would call a 'female' (i.e. 'care-oriented') concern; (2) the care orientation…
Beyond Individualism and Sociocentrism
Many studies of Japan have used the ‘sociocentric’ (i.e., contextual, collective and empathic, etc.) framework of analysis to contrast Japanese culture, people, or behavior with their arguably individualistic counterparts in America (or ‘Western societies’). This article argues that the individualism-sociocentrism dichotomy as applied uniformly (e.g., all or the majority of Japanese are sociocentric) and exclusively (e.g., Japanese are sociocentr…
Japanese Cultural Psychology and Empathic Understanding
This article examines personally divergent ways that Japanese individuals understand and act on the cultural script of empathy (omoiyari). Through interviews with highschool students and observations of people in real-life situations, I shall show the contradictory and multidimensional motives that do not always fit into the culturally idealized patterns of empathic behavior. In so doing, I shall critique Markus and Kitayama's and Wierzbicka's us…
What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan
On the basis of the TIMSS Case Study Project data collected in the United States, Japan, and Germany in 1994–1995, this article examines the phenomenon of tracking as part of curricular differentiation and student placement practices in public K–12 school systems. The authors document clear national differences in differentiation and placement measures and summarize the history of conflict over those measures. Analysis of respondent perceptions a…
Japanese Cultural Psychology and Empathic Understanding
This article examines personally divergent ways that Japanese individuals understand and act on the cultural script of empathy (omoiyari). Through interviews with highschool students and observations of people in real-life situations, I shall show the contradictory and multidimensional motives that do not always fit into the culturally idealized patterns of empathic behavior. In so doing, I shall critique Markus and Kitayama's and Wierzbicka's us…
Narrative reconstruction of mental illness as a work‐stress‐induced disorder
Stress‐induced mental illnesses have become the focus of increasing international attention, particularly in Japan since the 1990s, where judiciary cases and welfare‐state initiatives established causal links between work stress and mental illness. However, how individuals retrospectively construct this causality remains a marginal topic in the literature. This ethnographic article explores the ways in which male workers seeking compensation for …
Japanese Adolescent Boys' Senses of Empathy (Omoiyari) and Carol Gilligan's Perspectives on the Morality of Care
This study replicated the interview method of Carol Gilligan and her colleagues to examine the nature of the care perspective in Japanese adolescents' real-life experiences of moral conflicts and decision making. Four emergent themes that contradicted Gilligan's theoretical perspectives were identified: (1) both Japanese male and female adolescents showed what Gilligan would call a 'female' (i.e. 'care-oriented') concern; (2) the care orientation…
Beyond Individualism and Sociocentrism
Many studies of Japan have used the ‘sociocentric’ (i.e., contextual, collective and empathic, etc.) framework of analysis to contrast Japanese culture, people, or behavior with their arguably individualistic counterparts in America (or ‘Western societies’). This article argues that the individualism-sociocentrism dichotomy as applied uniformly (e.g., all or the majority of Japanese are sociocentric) and exclusively (e.g., Japanese are sociocentr…
Japanese Cultural Psychology and Empathic Understanding
This article examines personally divergent ways that Japanese individuals understand and act on the cultural script of empathy (omoiyari). Through interviews with highschool students and observations of people in real-life situations, I shall show the contradictory and multidimensional motives that do not always fit into the culturally idealized patterns of empathic behavior. In so doing, I shall critique Markus and Kitayama's and Wierzbicka's us…
Japanese Adolescent Boys' Senses of Empathy (Omoiyari) and Carol Gilligan's Perspectives on the Morality of Care
This study replicated the interview method of Carol Gilligan and her colleagues to examine the nature of the care perspective in Japanese adolescents' real-life experiences of moral conflicts and decision making. Four emergent themes that contradicted Gilligan's theoretical perspectives were identified: (1) both Japanese male and female adolescents showed what Gilligan would call a 'female' (i.e. 'care-oriented') concern; (2) the care orientation…
What Is Tracking? Cultural Expectations in the United States, Germany, and Japan
On the basis of the TIMSS Case Study Project data collected in the United States, Japan, and Germany in 1994–1995, this article examines the phenomenon of tracking as part of curricular differentiation and student placement practices in public K–12 school systems. The authors document clear national differences in differentiation and placement measures and summarize the history of conflict over those measures. Analysis of respondent perceptions a…
Immortal Wishes
Narrative reconstruction of mental illness as a work‐stress‐induced disorder
Stress‐induced mental illnesses have become the focus of increasing international attention, particularly in Japan since the 1990s, where judiciary cases and welfare‐state initiatives established causal links between work stress and mental illness. However, how individuals retrospectively construct this causality remains a marginal topic in the literature. This ethnographic article explores the ways in which male workers seeking compensation for …
The medicalisation of everyday life
Cultural models of nature among food producers in Japan
Explaining depression in the language of burnout
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in diversifying the understanding and discussion about the causes of depression to move beyond biomedical determinism-a view that biomedical factors are the ultimate cause of an individual's depression. There is increasing emphasis on diversity in how people seek to articulate the causes of depression to incorporate non-biomedical dimensions. Furthermore, the biomedical understanding of depression …
Infrastructuring AI and Robotics for Health and Everyday Life
This article examines how emerging infrastructural AI and robotics for health and everyday life are proposed and negotiated, drawing on ethnographic research within the Japanese Awareness AI Project. The project envisages distributed assistance relying on continuous measurement of bodily states, aiming to make technological systems recede into the background. The analysis reveals how the project envisions bodies and machines as tightly coupled, y…
Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (2 works) · Empathy (2 works)