R Goodman

Biographic Data

ID13900
NAMER Goodman
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMEGoodman
SIGNATUREGOODMAN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-9559-9321
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Exploring State–Doctor Relationships in East Asia: An Anthropological Approach

    Open AccessSeonsam, R GoodmanARTICLEMedical Anthropology2026

    This article examines state - doctor relationships in East Asia through an anthropological lens, arguing that states and medical professions are mutually dependent. Despite divergent modern histories, East Asian societies remain shaped by Confucianism and traditional medicine, which continue to influence governance and health systems. The authors argue that scholarship has insufficiently addressed the complexities of state - doctor relations in n…

  • Toward an understanding of the healthcare system in Japan: A co-constructed account

    Open AccessR Goodman, Naoki IkegamiARTICLEMedical Anthropology2026

    this article sets out to capture how an experienced British anthropologist of Japan draws on their own experiences as a patient to learn from a Japanese "key informant," what they believe constitute the key elements for understanding the healthcare system in Japan. This approach is intended to make more transparent the process through which anthropologists produce their accounts by highlighting the "voice of the informant" alongside that of the a…

  • Education and Social Justice in Japan

    Open AccessR GoodmanARTICLESocial Science Japan Journal2024

  • Education: Anthropological Aspects

    Open AccessR GoodmanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Japanese education and education reform

    R GoodmanCHAPTERRoutledege handbook of Japanese…2015

    In the late 1980s, when Japan’s bubble economy was at its peak, set to become the world’s number one economy by 2000, I wrote a paper summarizing the key features of the Japanese education system (Goodman 1989 ). The paper was published in a new journal, Pacifi c Review , whose title encapsulated the sense of a coming “Pacifi c Century” with Japan at its center. Looking back at that paper now, it is interesting to see the extent to which it drew …

  • The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants: A Rejoinder to Michael N. Schmitt

    R Goodman, Richard A GoodmanARTICLEEuropean Journal of International…2013

    I wrote the article, The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants, to correct an oversight in recent law of armed conflict (LOAC) scholarship and practice. In the article, two of the leading LOAC experts with whom I disagree are Colonel Hays Parks and Professor Michael Schmitt. In his Reply to my article, Professor Schmitt thoughtfully engages with my analysis. His representation of my argument is fair, and he interrogates the merit of my positi…

  • Silver-haired society: What are the implications

    Open AccessR GoodmanARTICLESocial Anthropology2010

  • Response to Haim Hazan: Silver-Haired Society

    Open AccessR GoodmanARTICLESocial Anthropology2010

  • The rapid redrawing of boundaries in Japanese higher education

    R GoodmanARTICLEJapan Forum2010Cited by: 2References: 5

    This paper examines the fundamental changes which are currently taking place in Japanese higher education. These changes are seeing the development of what has been dubbed the ‘third generation’ of Japanese universities which can no longer rely on student fees and government support to survive and need to find other ways to generate income. The paper shows how the different responses of Japanese universities to these new challenges is leading to …

  • East Asia

    Brian Bridges, Nick Cox et al.ARTICLEAsian Affairs2009

  • The concept of Kokusaika and Japanese educational reform

    R GoodmanARTICLEGlobalisation Societies and…2007Cited by: 8References: 11

    Globalisation has become one of the most fashionable concepts in social scientific discourse over the past 15 years, along with related vocabulary of words such as 'transnationalism', 'McDonaldisation', 'Cocacolanisation', 'localisation' and 'glocalisation'. Much ink has been spilt on how such terms should be defined and used in a theoretical context and how they can be mobilised methodologically, but little agreement has been reached on either s…

  • Japan in the New Global Demography: Comparative Perspectives

    Open AccessR Goodman, Harper et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2007

    The Asian/Pacific region, currently home to six hundred million older people, is the most rapidly ageing world region, with twenty percent of its projected population over sixty by 2050, which will at that date account for two-thirds of the world's two billion elders. Indeed, UN projections predict that by 2040 there will be more individuals aged over sixty than under fifteen in the region and Asia will have followed Europe in becoming the world'…

  • Demographic change and the family in Japan’s aging society – Traphagan, John W. & John Knight

    Open AccessR GoodmanARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2006

  • Making Majority Culture

    R GoodmanOTHERA Companion to the Anthropology…2005

  • Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, and: Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective (review)

    R GoodmanARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2004

    Reviewed by: Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, and: Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective Roger Goodman (bio) Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan. By Joshua Hotaka Roth. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002. ix, 161 pages. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper. Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Pers…

  • Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan

    Aya Ezawa, R GoodmanARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

    In Japan today over 30,000 children are in the care of the state because their parents or guardians cannot, will not, or are not considered competent to look after them. Drawing on his long-term fieldwork in an institution for such children, Roger Goodman describes what happens to them in a country that has no professional social workers and little tradition of adopting or fostering children in need of care, and explains how, in the 1990s, the co…

  • Anthropology, policy and the study of Japan

    Open AccessR GoodmanCHAPTERFamily and Social Policy in Japan2002

    While most people probably associate the study of social policy with disciplines such as economics, politics and sociology, it is in fact an area with which anthropology has been involved, if not always happily, for almost a hundred years. Cambridge University in 1906 used the term 'practical anthropology' in describing a programme it ran for training colonial administrators and, in 1929, Bronislaw Malinowski (1929: 36) called for a 'practical an…

  • Ideology and practice in Japan: Towards a theoretical approach

    R GoodmanCHAPTERIdeology and Practice in Modern…2002

    This volume is the third in a continuing series of publications from the Japan Anthropology Workshop, an organisation which prefers to go under the acronym JAWS. JAWS is an international organisation of over one hundred anthropologists-all specialising to some degree in the study of Japan-which meets every eighteen months to exchange ideas in an academic forum (see Hendry 1987; van Bremen 1989). The first two volumes contained chapters from sixte…

  • Shorter Notices

    R GoodmanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2001

    Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s, by K. Tipton and John Clark (Reading: Craftsman House, 2000; pp. 224. £21). ROGER GOODMAN ROGER GOODMAN St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 1002–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.1002 Pu…

  • Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s, Elise K. Tipton and John Clark

    R GoodmanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2001

    Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s, by K. Tipton and John Clark (Reading: Craftsman House, 2000; pp. 224. £21). ROGER GOODMAN ROGER GOODMAN St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXVI, Issue 468, September 2001, Pages 1002–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXVI.468.1002 Pu…

  • Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program

    R Goodman, David L McconnellARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2001

  • The Entrepreneurial Children's Home Approaches to the Study of the Japanese Child Welfare System

    Open AccessR GoodmanARTICLEIDS Bulletin1999Cited by: 1References: 1

    Summaries This article is an exploration of how assumptions about how welfare should be provided can affect the conclusions one draws from studying the welfare system of another society, and how immersion in a welfare system of another country can lead to different conclusions about how welfare might best be provided. It is based on an analysis of Japan's child welfare system, in particular homes ( yôgoshisetsu ) for children whose parents cannot…

  • The East Asian Welfare States: Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change, and Nation-Building

    R GoodmanCHAPTERWelfare States in Transition1996

  • Film reviews

    T O Beidelman, Jayasinhji Jhala et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology1996

    Morning with Asch . Jayasinhji Jhala, director; Lindsey Powell, camera. 1996, 45 minutes, NTSC, SECAM or PAL video: English dialog. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, Mass. 02172. Fax no: (617)926–9519. Video rental, $40; sale, $195. The Filmmaker Replies Osaka Story : A Documentary. Directed by Toichi Nakata, color, Japanese and Korean with English subtitles, 75 minutes, 1994. Threads of Life: Hemp and Gend…

  • Japan's 'International' Youth: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren

    Janet Salaff, Janet W Salaff et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996