著者
林 怡蓉
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.104, pp.183-195, 2008-03

In this paper, I examine the actual situation of tobacco advertisement controls and the process of formation of the controls in Japan. Using an analysis of the representation of smoking manners advertisements, I aim to answer this following question by analyzing the representation of smoking manners advertisement. The questions: why did the problem of smoker's manners turn out to be the main focus of discussion regarding tobacoo advertisement, instead of the health problem involved? Japan Tobacco Inc. Together with the Ministry of Finance has announced the message that tobacco is one of the nonessential items for adults. At the same time they have published advertisements regaqrding smoking manners have consideration towards other people and environment when smoking.
著者
山路 勝彦
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.101, pp.43-67, 2006-10

In its efforts to appeal the success of Japanese colonial policies, the Empire of Manchuria joined in various kinds of expositions held in Japan since the Taisho period. The main purpose of joining in these expositions was to display the rich mining and agricultural resources of Manchuria. Under colonial rule by the Japanese militarists, Manchuria was a country situated as a provider of natural resources for Japan. Manchuria had another opportunity to represent itself by showing a different culture from that of the Japanese. When the Chicago world exposition titled "a century of progress" was held in 1933, Manchuria joined in this fair to declare itself as an independent country, displaying its historical and cultural heritage as different from the Chinese and Japanese. In 1934, a unique exposition was held in Dalian (Dairen in Japanese) of Manchuria. In this exposition, not only mining resources but also native folk customs, such as shamanism of the Mongols, Orochen, or Koreans, were displayed as a part of Manchurian culture. Thus, Manchuria showed complicated features in each exposition.
著者
小國 英夫
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.105, pp.15-30, 2008-03

Although social welfare in Japan is aspiring to a new direction, with a Nursing-care Insurance System (executed in 2000) and a Disabled-Persons'-Independence Support System (executed in 2006), and so on, based on "recipient / patient autonomy," Japan's geriatric welfare remains traditionally bound by "Peternalism" and a "Protectionist Principle" and in the nearly 8 years which have elapsed since the Nursing-care Insurance System was put into operation has not yet conquered these constraints. Sinxce the fall of 1997, the writer objected that at the center of the implementation of the "My Care Plan" in the Nursing-care Insurance System, mental "self-rule" - "autonomy" (i.e., recipient-autonomy based) - should outweigh physical "self-standing" - "independence" - for geriatric welfare as well. In such movements as Independent Living for Challenged Persons, and so onm, this view was emphasized and practiced from early on. Whether or not disability welfare and geriatric welfare can assume completely identical viewpoints, fundamentally many of their viewpoints can be shared apropos of "human beings' ways of life." The writer wishes to contend that a geriatric welfare that progresses with welfare fror challenged children and others in a directio of mutual ideological and systemic based has tremendous value for social welfare and for raising Japan's social welfare to an international standard.
著者
難波 功士
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.100, pp.181-189, 2006-03-15

In the 1970s, some young people began to take pleasure in creating Japanese words coined with the suffix '-er'. For example, there were readers and contributors of "Bikkurihouse" magazine, who were called "(Bikkuri-) houser", first by editors, and then even by themselves. In this era, coinages with '-er' were alternatives for labeling the youth by adults or the mass media. In the 1980s, such puns and word-plays were diffused among young people. In the middle of the 1990s, the new words, 'Chaneller' and 'Amuror', were used by young people and immediately became vogue-words through the mass media. The former meant fans of 'Chanel' brand and the latter meant wannabes of 'Amuro Namie', who was the singer and dancer most popular with teenage girls at that time. Afterwards, many new coinages have been made by this word formation, 'brand name +er' or 'celebrity's name +er'. In the end, the genealogy of Japanese coinages with the suffix '-er' resulted in the emergence of fandom following certain brands or modes advocated by celebrities through the mass media.
著者
川久保 美智子
出版者
関西学院大学
雑誌
関西学院大学社会学部紀要 (ISSN:04529456)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.102, pp.35-48, 2007-03

This paper describes the life of Japanese-Brazilian workers in Japan investigated by interviews and a questionnaire survey. The Seventh Day Adventist members in Shizuokaken were selected and these Brazilians are all members of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Kakegawa city. I participated in their annual meeting at summer camp for 5 days and asked them to answer questionnaires and interviewed them. I asked them when and why they came to Japan, how long they intended to stay in Japan, problems they have in their daily life and occupational life, etc.. I also attended their weekly service at their church on Saturdays to observe their activities. As a result, I found that their biggest problem is communication due to the language difference. This problem causes other problems such as with human relationships, racial prejudice, children's education, etc..