Lynne Y Nakano
Biographic Data
| ID | 643404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Y Nakano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakano |
| SIGNATURE | NAKANO L Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7481-8751 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comparative Framing From Below
As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their interpretations are linked to broader contexts. Drawing on focus group discussions among university student…
Women in their thirties in Japan
Kaori Okano’s Women in their Thirties in Japan: Life Course and Happiness provides readers with an intimate look into the lives of non-tertiary educated women who grew up in a working-class neighbo
Women in politics in Japan
This article examines the obstacles preventing women from entering national-level politics in Japan and reviews research by political scientists and sociologists who use methods associated with anthropology such as participant observation and interviews to investigate the rise of women’s political activism at local levels. The article discusses “housewife” activism that has propelled significant numbers of women into political office but relies o…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Final Days
Reviewed by: Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life Lynne Nakano (bio) Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life. By Susan Orpett Long. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2005. xi, 287 pages. $45.00. For the middle class and above in advanced postindustrial societies, death frequently involves a series of decisions that force individuals and fam-ilies to address questions not only of how to prolong life, b…
Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice
This article considers how people in Japan create themselves from a range of available identities. Decisions to adopt particular identities are channeled by the institutions of society, historical circumstances, and local contexts. Because selves and societies mutually fashion one another, the ways in which selves construct an identity are commentaries upon transformations in society. The identity of the volunteer (borantia in Japanese) has emerg…
Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice
This article considers how people in Japan create themselves from a range of available identities. Decisions to adopt particular identities are channeled by the institutions of society, historical circumstances, and local contexts. Because selves and societies mutually fashion one another, the ways in which selves construct an identity are commentaries upon transformations in society. The identity of the volunteer (borantia in Japanese) has emerg…
Volunteering as a Lifestyle Choice
This article considers how people in Japan create themselves from a range of available identities. Decisions to adopt particular identities are channeled by the institutions of society, historical circumstances, and local contexts. Because selves and societies mutually fashion one another, the ways in which selves construct an identity are commentaries upon transformations in society. The identity of the volunteer (borantia in Japanese) has emerg…
Final Days
Reviewed by: Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life Lynne Nakano (bio) Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life. By Susan Orpett Long. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2005. xi, 287 pages. $45.00. For the middle class and above in advanced postindustrial societies, death frequently involves a series of decisions that force individuals and fam-ilies to address questions not only of how to prolong life, b…
Capturing Contemporary Japan
Women in politics in Japan
This article examines the obstacles preventing women from entering national-level politics in Japan and reviews research by political scientists and sociologists who use methods associated with anthropology such as participant observation and interviews to investigate the rise of women’s political activism at local levels. The article discusses “housewife” activism that has propelled significant numbers of women into political office but relies o…
Comparative Framing From Below
As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their interpretations are linked to broader contexts. Drawing on focus group discussions among university student…
Women in their thirties in Japan
Kaori Okano’s Women in their Thirties in Japan: Life Course and Happiness provides readers with an intimate look into the lives of non-tertiary educated women who grew up in a working-class neighbo
Gender Studies (3 works) · Negotiation (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)