Shinji Kojima
Biographic Data
| ID | 651963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shinji Kojima |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shinji |
| FAMILY NAME | Kojima |
| SIGNATURE | KOJIMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0315-8527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Securing a place for death
Muslim migrants are a fast-growing ethnic minority in Japan, where they are increasingly settling, ageing, and passing away. One critical issue arising from their settlement is the lack of access to burial grounds, given that 99.97 per cent of the nation is cremated. Unlike in many Western European countries, municipal cemeteries in Japan typically lack burial plots. However, individuals or organizations that secure permits from local governments…
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012-2020
Litigation and courts have been important arbiters of labour policy reforms aimed at redressing Japan's growing social inequality. This article considers seven lawsuits brought by non-regular workers, who sought to use Article 20 of the 2012 Labour Contracts Act to gain equal pay for equal work. All seven cases reached Japan's Supreme Court amid Abe Shinzō's 2018 labour reforms. The Court's interpretations reaffirmed employer discretion in catego…
To Bury or Not to Bury
Muslim migrants in Japan suffer from the lack of access to burial grounds when 99.9% of the nation is cremated. Muslims are usually met with opposition from the local community where cemetery construction is planned. Using ethnographic data, the study shows how Muslim associations inadvertently fail to respect the codes of Japanese rurality when seeking a cemetery in a community to which they do not have membership, leading to a conflict. This pa…
Abe Shinzō's Campaign to Reform the Japanese Way of Work
Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has made Work Style Reform (hatarakikata kaikaku) part of his core policy agenda, promising above all to remedy the Japanese way of work's two greatest problems: dangerously long work hours and grossly unequal wage gaps between regular and non-regular workers. However, critics charge that the proposals will likely aggravate these problems, given that labor policymaking is dominated by conservative business and political …
Why Do Temp Workers Work as Hard as They Do
This qualitative study on blue-collar temporary agency workers in Japan uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to revisit the Marxist problem of surplus appropriation; that is, why do temp workers work as hard as they do, when management has little to offer in return? Existing literature has provided two answers of “coercion” and “consent.” This study attempts to bridge the debate by employing Bourdieu and Wacquant's concepts of pra…
When dismissal becomes a business transaction
This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rōdōsha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three …
When dismissal becomes a business transaction
This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rodosha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three …
Implementation of HACCP in the risk management of medical waste generated from endoscopy
Medical waste poses health hazards, increases the environmental load and is costly to dispose of. To solve the above problems, we applied the hazard analysis and critical control point system (HACCP) to the management of wastes generated from endoscopy. First, the wastes in three hospitals were quantified. The number and weight of waste per case differed significantly among the three hospitals. Second, HACCP was applied to the endoscopy unit of H…
When dismissal becomes a business transaction
This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rodosha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three …
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012-2020
Litigation and courts have been important arbiters of labour policy reforms aimed at redressing Japan's growing social inequality. This article considers seven lawsuits brought by non-regular workers, who sought to use Article 20 of the 2012 Labour Contracts Act to gain equal pay for equal work. All seven cases reached Japan's Supreme Court amid Abe Shinzō's 2018 labour reforms. The Court's interpretations reaffirmed employer discretion in catego…
Implementation of HACCP in the risk management of medical waste generated from endoscopy
Medical waste poses health hazards, increases the environmental load and is costly to dispose of. To solve the above problems, we applied the hazard analysis and critical control point system (HACCP) to the management of wastes generated from endoscopy. First, the wastes in three hospitals were quantified. The number and weight of waste per case differed significantly among the three hospitals. Second, HACCP was applied to the endoscopy unit of H…
When dismissal becomes a business transaction
This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rōdōsha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three …
When dismissal becomes a business transaction
This article analyzes the particular circumstances of temporary dispatched workers (haken rodosha) and a feature of their job insecurity as one facet of the growing inequality in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on the relative ease with which these workers are dismissed both legally and in practice. By contrasting with other more familiar forms of insecure labor in Japan, the paper examines the triangular relationship involving the three …
Why Do Temp Workers Work as Hard as They Do
This qualitative study on blue-collar temporary agency workers in Japan uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to revisit the Marxist problem of surplus appropriation; that is, why do temp workers work as hard as they do, when management has little to offer in return? Existing literature has provided two answers of “coercion” and “consent.” This study attempts to bridge the debate by employing Bourdieu and Wacquant's concepts of pra…
Abe Shinzō's Campaign to Reform the Japanese Way of Work
Prime Minister Abe Shinzō has made Work Style Reform (hatarakikata kaikaku) part of his core policy agenda, promising above all to remedy the Japanese way of work's two greatest problems: dangerously long work hours and grossly unequal wage gaps between regular and non-regular workers. However, critics charge that the proposals will likely aggravate these problems, given that labor policymaking is dominated by conservative business and political …
To Bury or Not to Bury
Muslim migrants in Japan suffer from the lack of access to burial grounds when 99.9% of the nation is cremated. Muslims are usually met with opposition from the local community where cemetery construction is planned. Using ethnographic data, the study shows how Muslim associations inadvertently fail to respect the codes of Japanese rurality when seeking a cemetery in a community to which they do not have membership, leading to a conflict. This pa…
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012-2020
Litigation and courts have been important arbiters of labour policy reforms aimed at redressing Japan's growing social inequality. This article considers seven lawsuits brought by non-regular workers, who sought to use Article 20 of the 2012 Labour Contracts Act to gain equal pay for equal work. All seven cases reached Japan's Supreme Court amid Abe Shinzō's 2018 labour reforms. The Court's interpretations reaffirmed employer discretion in catego…
Securing a place for death
Muslim migrants are a fast-growing ethnic minority in Japan, where they are increasingly settling, ageing, and passing away. One critical issue arising from their settlement is the lack of access to burial grounds, given that 99.97 per cent of the nation is cremated. Unlike in many Western European countries, municipal cemeteries in Japan typically lack burial plots. However, individuals or organizations that secure permits from local governments…
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)