Lynne Nakano
Biographic Data
| ID | 6526807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Nakano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakano |
| SIGNATURE | NAKANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
Out-of-Frame, Misframe, and Reframe
Introduction In an era of digitalization, online sexual harassment (OSH) has become a pervasive global issue, yet remains poorly understood. OSH refers to a spectrum of uninvited and unwelcome sexual behaviors—including sexual comments and solicitation—that take place on digital platforms. Using the lens of frames and framing ambiguity, this study explores the challenges faced by victims in identifying OSH and considers factors influencing their …
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…
Unmarried Women in Japan
The numbers of never-married women and men have been rising steadily in Japan, with a spike during the economic boom period of the 1980s and continuing through the recession era of the 1990s and beyond. This trend is not unique to Japan; the numbers of never-married people are high in all developed societies and are rising rapidly in developing societies. Akiko Yoshida’s book sets out to explain this rise in Japan and thereby contribute to sociol…
Single Women and the Transition to Marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo
This paper considers the transition to adulthood in East Asia by exploring the experiences of single women between the ages of 25 and 45 years in the cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. The paper argues that single women encounter difficulties negotiating marriage in the three cities due to problems in marriage markets, expectations of fertility upon marriage, and conflicts between educational and employment opportunities and marital roles. …
Single women and housing choices in urban Japan
Japan has experienced a particularly sharp decline in marriage in recent decades and a subsequent increase in ‘never-marrieds’ and single-person households. Social fragmentation has been associated with prolonged economic instability and neoliberalization that has restructured employment, housing and policy contexts. A particular social concern has been the difficulties facing those who do not follow conventional married life-courses. While marri…
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…
Single Women and the Transition to Marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo
This paper considers the transition to adulthood in East Asia by exploring the experiences of single women between the ages of 25 and 45 years in the cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. The paper argues that single women encounter difficulties negotiating marriage in the three cities due to problems in marriage markets, expectations of fertility upon marriage, and conflicts between educational and employment opportunities and marital roles. …
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…
Single women and housing choices in urban Japan
Japan has experienced a particularly sharp decline in marriage in recent decades and a subsequent increase in ‘never-marrieds’ and single-person households. Social fragmentation has been associated with prolonged economic instability and neoliberalization that has restructured employment, housing and policy contexts. A particular social concern has been the difficulties facing those who do not follow conventional married life-courses. While marri…
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…
Single women and housing choices in urban Japan
Japan has experienced a particularly sharp decline in marriage in recent decades and a subsequent increase in ‘never-marrieds’ and single-person households. Social fragmentation has been associated with prolonged economic instability and neoliberalization that has restructured employment, housing and policy contexts. A particular social concern has been the difficulties facing those who do not follow conventional married life-courses. While marri…
Single Women and the Transition to Marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo
This paper considers the transition to adulthood in East Asia by exploring the experiences of single women between the ages of 25 and 45 years in the cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. The paper argues that single women encounter difficulties negotiating marriage in the three cities due to problems in marriage markets, expectations of fertility upon marriage, and conflicts between educational and employment opportunities and marital roles. …
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…
Unmarried Women in Japan
The numbers of never-married women and men have been rising steadily in Japan, with a spike during the economic boom period of the 1980s and continuing through the recession era of the 1990s and beyond. This trend is not unique to Japan; the numbers of never-married people are high in all developed societies and are rising rapidly in developing societies. Akiko Yoshida’s book sets out to explain this rise in Japan and thereby contribute to sociol…
Out-of-Frame, Misframe, and Reframe
Introduction In an era of digitalization, online sexual harassment (OSH) has become a pervasive global issue, yet remains poorly understood. OSH refers to a spectrum of uninvited and unwelcome sexual behaviors—including sexual comments and solicitation—that take place on digital platforms. Using the lens of frames and framing ambiguity, this study explores the challenges faced by victims in identifying OSH and considers factors influencing their …
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
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Negotiation (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · China (2 works)