Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Policy Science

Policy Case Reading II (Japan Studies)

政策英書講読Ⅱ/政策外国語特別演習Ⅱ（英語）

Fall 2018 Office: AS 8608 (8F)

Friday, 18:00-19:30 Office Hours: Thursday, 14:40-16:10
Room: AS 264 (make an appointment by email)
Instructor: Kimiko Shiki Course Materials: Uploaded at One Drive
Email: kshiki@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp

Reading List 2
November 16, 2018
Week Date Theme
8 11/16 Midterm review: outline or draft of your midterm paper
Recent conditions of urban planning
Sorensen, Andre (2002) 9 The era of local rights: master plans,
9 11/23 machizukuri and historical preservation in The making of urban
Japan: Cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century,
Routledge: London and New York, pp. 288-332
Working poor in Japan
10* 11/30 Sekine, Yuki (2008) The rise of poverty in Japan: The emergence of
the working poor, Japan Labor Review 15(4): 49-66.
Programs for Homelessness in global cities
Marr, Matthew D. (2016) Urban welfare regimes, organizational
11 12/7 cultures, and client-staff tie activation: A comparison of transitional
housing programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo, Journal of Urban
Affairs 38(2): 214-235.
Housing in Asia
Ronald, Richard and John Doling (2014) 1 The changing shape of the
12 12/14
East Asian Housing Model, in Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and
demographic challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 9-43.
Current housing problems in Japan
Hirayama, Yosuke and Misa Izuhara (2018) Young people and the
13* 12/21 divergence of housing pathways, in Housing in post-growth society:
Japan on the edge of social transition, Routledge: London and New
York, pp. 94-119.
Leaning from urban planning in Japan
Sorensen, Andre (2002) 10 Japanese urbanization and planning in
14 1/11
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and planning from Edo to the
twenty-first century, Routledge; London and New York, pp. 333-357.
15 1/18 Final review: outline or draft of your final paper

*Loi is Gone