Shiro Saito
Biographic Data
| ID | 685280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shiro Saito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Saito |
| SIGNATURE | SAITO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0403-3606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evidence for positive and negative transfer of abstract task knowledge in adults and school-aged children
Positive correlation between working memory and face-to-face social interaction in everyday life
Working memory (WM) plays a crucial role in various cognitive tasks from language comprehension to problem-solving. However, its influence on social activities has remained largely unexplored. The current two studies on individual differences, a pilot (N = 329) and a pre-registered direct replication (N = 338) study, investigated the relationship between WM and outside-the-lab social interaction by using a listening span task and three social net…
Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture
Outcomes of Window Therapy with Carboplatin and Ifosfamide for Pediatric Osteosarcoma: A Case Series
For the treatment of osteosarcoma, cisplatin (CDDP) can be substituted by carboplatin (CBDCA) to reduce toxicity. We report a single institution experience of CBDCA-based regimen. Two to three cycles of CBDCA + ifosfamide (IFO) therapy (window therapy) were administered as neoadjuvant therapy for osteosarcoma. Depending on the response of window therapy, the subsequent protocols were determined; for good responders, surgery is performed, and post…
Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education
Retrieval stopping can reduce distress from aversive memories
Aversive memories have the potential to impair one's psychological well-being. It is desirable to reduce the anguish over such memories, as well as the chance that they will be retrieved. In two experiments, we investigated whether retrieval stopping reduces the distress elicited by negative memories retrieved from cues and how the effects of retrieval stopping are modulated by mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. Participants engage…
The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan's nuclear safety failure
The Fukushima nuclear disaster was profoundly a man-made one, resulting from the organizational failure of nuclear emergency preparedness. To fully understand the cause of this disaster, I propose to extend an organizational perspective on disasters into a macro-institutional perspective on disaster preparedness. To this end, I borrow from science and technology studies the concepts of "sociotechnical imaginary" and "civic epistemology" to probe …
The detrimental effect of semantic similarity in short-term memory tasks: A meta-regression approach
Contribution of Executive Functions to Learning Sequential Actions in Young Children
This study examined whether executive functions impact how flexibly children represent task context in performing repeated sequential actions. Japanese children in Experiments 1 (N = 52; 3–6 years) and 2 (N = 50, 4–6 years) performed sequential actions repeatedly; one group received reminders. Experiment 1 indicated that reminders promote flexible changes in contextual representations. Experiment 2 observed such effects in younger children and sh…
Cognitive and neural underpinnings of goal maintenance in young children
Homophone Advantage in Sentence Acceptability Judgment: An Experiment with Japanese Kanji Words and Articulatory Suppression Technique
Repeated sequential action by young children: Developmental changes in representational flexibility of task context
A wealth of developmental research suggests that preschoolers are capable of reporting, imitating, and performing sequential actions they engage in routinely. However, few studies have explored the developmental and cognitive mechanisms required for learning how to perform such routines. A previous computational model of routines argued that a representation of task contexts underlying routines could change flexibly. This position was supported b…
Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel
The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia
This essay summarizes my argument in The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia. The history problem is essentially a relational phenomenon that arises when nations promote self-serving versions of the past by focusing on what happened to their own citizens with little regard for foreign others. East Asia, however, has recently also witnessed the emergence of a cosmopolitan form of commemoration taking humanity, rather th…
Knowledge LTD: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
The Cultural Pragmatics of Political Apology
In recent decades, research on 'political apology', wherein the state apologizes to victims of its past wrongs, has multiplied, as redress movements based on human rights have proliferated around the world. Since most of this research has been conducted by political philosophers, however, analyses of political apologies tend to adopt formal and normative perspectives. To propose an alternative, empirically-grounded approach, in this paper, I deve…
Cosmopolitics: Towards a New Articulation of Politics, Science and Critique
This paper explores howUlrichBeck's world-risk-society theory (WRST) andBrunoLatour'sActor-NetworkTheory (ANT) can be combined to advance a theory of cosmopolitics. On the one hand,WRSThelps to examine 'cosmopolitan politics', how actors try to inject cosmopolitanism into existing political practices and institutions anchored in the logic of nationalism. On the other hand,ANTsheds light on 'cosmological politics', how scientists participate in th…
Disciplines, Area Studies, and Publics: Rethinking Sociology in a Global World
Historians as rooted cosmopolitans: Their Potentials and Limitations
In the 1990s, the so-called 'history problem' began to escalate in East Asia as the result of mutually reinforcing nationalist commemorations in Japan, South Korea and China. In response, historians from the three countries organized joint historical research and textbook projects. In this article, I examine the extent to which these joint projects succeeded in promoting the cosmopolitan logic of historiography that challenged nationalist commemo…
Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification
In recent years, sociological research on cosmopolitanism has begun to draw on Pierre Bourdieu to critically examine how cosmopolitanism is implicated in stratification on an increasingly global scale. In this paper, we examine the analytical potential of the Bourdieusian approach by exploring how education systems help to institutionalize cosmopolitanism as cultural capital whose access is rendered structurally unequal. To this end, we first pro…
European Cosmopolitanism in Question
Competing Logics of Commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in East Asia’s History Problem
Recent studies in collective memory point to the emergence of cosmopolitan commemoration that takes humanity, rather than nationality, as a primary frame of reference. But these studies have yet to specify how cosmopolitan commemoration emerges and articulates with existing nationalist commemoration. To solve this problem, we examine the 'history problem' between Japan and South Korea by focusing on how relevant political and civic actors negotia…
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930
In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not marginal occurrences but instead critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through which to examine an…
The effects of prosodic features and wordlikeness on nonword repetition performance among young Japanese children1: Effects of prosodic features
This study investigated how prosodic aspects and wordlikeness of nonwords affect young Japanese children's repetition of nonwords. We contrasted two conditions in which a nonword comprised of two morae was pronounced with and without a small pause between the two morae. We also manipulated accent patterns of presentation of nonwords. The results indicated that the presence of a small pause in a nonword had a facilitating effect on the repetition …
Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification
In recent years, sociological research on cosmopolitanism has begun to draw on Pierre Bourdieu to critically examine how cosmopolitanism is implicated in stratification on an increasingly global scale. In this paper, we examine the analytical potential of the Bourdieusian approach by exploring how education systems help to institutionalize cosmopolitanism as cultural capital whose access is rendered structurally unequal. To this end, we first pro…
Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma
This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame to define the postwar Japanese identity in terms of tr…
An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism
A major problem with the emerging sociological literature on cosmopolitanism is that it has not adequately theorized mechanisms that mediate the presumed causal relationship between globalization and the development of cosmopolitan orientations. To solve this problem, I draw on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) to theorize the development of three key elements of cosmopolitanism: cultural omnivorousness, ethnic tolerance, and cosmopolitic…
Knowledge LTD: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
Competing Logics of Commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in East Asia’s History Problem
Recent studies in collective memory point to the emergence of cosmopolitan commemoration that takes humanity, rather than nationality, as a primary frame of reference. But these studies have yet to specify how cosmopolitan commemoration emerges and articulates with existing nationalist commemoration. To solve this problem, we examine the 'history problem' between Japan and South Korea by focusing on how relevant political and civic actors negotia…
The Cultural Pragmatics of Political Apology
In recent decades, research on 'political apology', wherein the state apologizes to victims of its past wrongs, has multiplied, as redress movements based on human rights have proliferated around the world. Since most of this research has been conducted by political philosophers, however, analyses of political apologies tend to adopt formal and normative perspectives. To propose an alternative, empirically-grounded approach, in this paper, I deve…
Historians as rooted cosmopolitans: Their Potentials and Limitations
In the 1990s, the so-called 'history problem' began to escalate in East Asia as the result of mutually reinforcing nationalist commemorations in Japan, South Korea and China. In response, historians from the three countries organized joint historical research and textbook projects. In this article, I examine the extent to which these joint projects succeeded in promoting the cosmopolitan logic of historiography that challenged nationalist commemo…
Family characteristics and dynamics in Japan and the United States: A preliminary report from the family environment scale
Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education
Philippine Ethnography, a Critically Annotated and Selected Bibliography
Philippine Ethnography: A Critically Annotated and Selected Bibliography
Recent Filipiniana
Filipinos Overseas: A Bibliography
Influence of the mother-child relationship on the development of the Type A Behavior Pattern
Family characteristics and dynamics in Japan and the United States: A preliminary report from the family environment scale
Japanese Contributions to Southeast Asian Studies: A Bibliography of English-Language Publications 1945-1991
When articulatory suppression does not suppress the activity of the phonological loop
The purpose of this study is to examine whether the phonological loop works under the conditions where an individual is required to produce an irrelevant speech sound which constitutes the minimum load on the speech motor programming. In the first experiment, participants were tested for serial recall of visually presented letter sequences that were phonologically either similar or dissimilar, and had to remember each of the letter sequences unde…
Rhythmic information in working memory: Effects of concurrent articulation on reproduction of rhythms
The study addressed a previously neglected issue in the concept of working memory, namely whether or not rhythmical information is coded and maintained in a phonological loop. Thirty subjects engaged in a task which required them to reproduce the temporal sequence of rhythm. The results showed that the reproduction of rhythm was dramatically reduced by a concurrent articulation, and that the deterioration of rhythm reproduction was larger than th…
Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma
This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame to define the postwar Japanese identity in terms of tr…
Verification of the Addiction Severity Index Japanese Version (ASI-J) as a Treatment-Customization, Prediction, and Comparison Tool for Alcohol-Dependent Individuals
This study demonstrated that the ASI-J is useful for understanding individual profiles of problems for each patient and planning customized treatment. The ASI-J served as a predictive tool for relapse and compliance to treatment afterward and was shown to be useful as a comparison tool in clarifying similarities and differences between substance abuser groups
The effects of prosodic features and wordlikeness on nonword repetition performance among young Japanese children1: Effects of prosodic features
This study investigated how prosodic aspects and wordlikeness of nonwords affect young Japanese children's repetition of nonwords. We contrasted two conditions in which a nonword comprised of two morae was pronounced with and without a small pause between the two morae. We also manipulated accent patterns of presentation of nonwords. The results indicated that the presence of a small pause in a nonword had a facilitating effect on the repetition …
An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism
A major problem with the emerging sociological literature on cosmopolitanism is that it has not adequately theorized mechanisms that mediate the presumed causal relationship between globalization and the development of cosmopolitan orientations. To solve this problem, I draw on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) to theorize the development of three key elements of cosmopolitanism: cultural omnivorousness, ethnic tolerance, and cosmopolitic…
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930
In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not marginal occurrences but instead critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through which to examine an…
Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification
In recent years, sociological research on cosmopolitanism has begun to draw on Pierre Bourdieu to critically examine how cosmopolitanism is implicated in stratification on an increasingly global scale. In this paper, we examine the analytical potential of the Bourdieusian approach by exploring how education systems help to institutionalize cosmopolitanism as cultural capital whose access is rendered structurally unequal. To this end, we first pro…
European Cosmopolitanism in Question
Competing Logics of Commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in East Asia’s History Problem
Recent studies in collective memory point to the emergence of cosmopolitan commemoration that takes humanity, rather than nationality, as a primary frame of reference. But these studies have yet to specify how cosmopolitan commemoration emerges and articulates with existing nationalist commemoration. To solve this problem, we examine the 'history problem' between Japan and South Korea by focusing on how relevant political and civic actors negotia…
Cosmopolitics: Towards a New Articulation of Politics, Science and Critique
This paper explores howUlrichBeck's world-risk-society theory (WRST) andBrunoLatour'sActor-NetworkTheory (ANT) can be combined to advance a theory of cosmopolitics. On the one hand,WRSThelps to examine 'cosmopolitan politics', how actors try to inject cosmopolitanism into existing political practices and institutions anchored in the logic of nationalism. On the other hand,ANTsheds light on 'cosmological politics', how scientists participate in th…
Disciplines, Area Studies, and Publics: Rethinking Sociology in a Global World
Historians as rooted cosmopolitans: Their Potentials and Limitations
In the 1990s, the so-called 'history problem' began to escalate in East Asia as the result of mutually reinforcing nationalist commemorations in Japan, South Korea and China. In response, historians from the three countries organized joint historical research and textbook projects. In this article, I examine the extent to which these joint projects succeeded in promoting the cosmopolitan logic of historiography that challenged nationalist commemo…
Knowledge LTD: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
The Cultural Pragmatics of Political Apology
In recent decades, research on 'political apology', wherein the state apologizes to victims of its past wrongs, has multiplied, as redress movements based on human rights have proliferated around the world. Since most of this research has been conducted by political philosophers, however, analyses of political apologies tend to adopt formal and normative perspectives. To propose an alternative, empirically-grounded approach, in this paper, I deve…
Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel
The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia
This essay summarizes my argument in The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia. The history problem is essentially a relational phenomenon that arises when nations promote self-serving versions of the past by focusing on what happened to their own citizens with little regard for foreign others. East Asia, however, has recently also witnessed the emergence of a cosmopolitan form of commemoration taking humanity, rather th…
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