First, we examine the data published by the government offices and confirm that Ikuno Ward, Osaka City is a town where the biggest population of Korean in Japan lives. Since the latter half of the 1990s, Korean II in Japan began providing day care for Korean who became elderly. Due to the exclusion of foreigners living in Japan from pension insurance, there are many elderly Korean without pensions. In addition, the community welfare did not support the daily life of Korean elderly.  This is an exclusion from community welfare. Day care center that is a base of mutual help for peer relation by Korean has built cooperation with local administration and concerned organs. It has opened up to people with disabilities in community who need some help, and has become a must-have place in community. The social work that started as a result of exclusion from social security formed the beginning of community care. This paper clarifies the background and significance.

The purpose of this paper is to lay out how the disability policy since 2000 in Japan has affected the lives of persons with disabilities in the community. For that purpose, this paper 1) identifies the changes in the disability policy systems, 2) reviews the events that acculturated the relationship between persons with disabilities and the society, and 3) examines the shift of the number of users and the budget of the Act on the comprehensive support for the daily and social life of persons with disabilities. By means of 1) and 2), it reveals that the disability movements acquired citizenship and resulted in some positive outcomes including a transition from institution to community-based living while the eugenic stream to evaluate human beings as a work force has consistently progressed since 2000. From the work of 3), it shows that the legal and financial bases such as the Long-term Care Insurance Law and the Act on the comprehensive support for the daily and social life of persons with disabilities have been established, and the supply of social care services has surely increased. On the basis of these results, it concludes that the expansion of social care service supply by social welfare corporations and NPOs has succeeded in enabling the people with disabilities to become clients living in the community, nonetheless, that it has not yet succeeded in letting them exercise citizenship and actively participate in the community as citizens.

Since the 2000s, the phenomenon of the radicalization of opinion and the spread of this discourse, typified by the rise of hate speech, known as “Netto uyoku”, has become a social problem.  Therefore, this paper aims to “infer the mechanism of spread of right-wing discourse” and focuses on the representation of tweets in the analysis. For this purpose, we collected and analyzed tweets about the flaming phenomenon that occurred around the popular song “HINOMARU”. The results showed that 1) the flames were divided into four stages, and in the latter part of the stage, 2) many shared websites shifted from online news sites to summary sites, and 3) with this shift, the neutral expressions used about oneself decreased, and the expressions used to refer to others who criticize as “left-wing” or “zainichi” increased. In light of this analysis, we take the spread of right-wing discourse to be caused by the mechanism by which “people become connected to right-wing discourse in the process of protecting their personal opinions and beliefs from criticism.

This study considers the transition of the free gifts in magazine for preschool children. 

This study found the following results. The free gifts had two characters of the “teaching material type” and “toy type” until the 1950s. However, the “toy type” has become main stream since the 1970s, while the free gifts of the “popular character type” gained momentum from the 1970s until the 1990s. The free gifts of the “real type” and “collaborative type” appeared in the 2010s.

In addition, this study analyzes the transformation of children’s images represented by the free gifts. The free gifts represented the image of children as “playing and studying at home” until the 1950s. The images of children represented as “studying outside home” after the 1960s. These two images were derived from a change in educational ideas for preschool children. In the 1970s, the image of children was represented as “playing and consuming with media” was derived by media expanding into children’s life. In the 2010s, the image of children was represented as “target of complicated consumption” was derived by expanding consumer society.

This research aims to examine the role of newspaper coverage in setting the agenda for drunk driving — a social issue that is familiar to many — and leading to stricter punishment. Drunk driving became severely punishable under the Road Traffic Act and the Penal Code in the wake of accidents on the Tomei Expressway in 1999 and Fukuoka in 2006. We analyzed the coverage of drunk driving by the Asahi Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun, and the Mainichi Shimbun from 1990 to 2009.

We classified articles from the newspaper database into 11 categories and examined the transition of content by separating it into two periods based on when the acts were passed. Among the five knowledge mediating functions in news media proposed by Yanovitzky and Weber (2019), the role of newspaper reports was examined in relation to the Linkage function and the Mobilization function. This research suggests that the Linkage function works powerfully in the first period, while the Mobilization function works mainly in the second period.

This paper will analyze 1) the media reports of the Otsu Bullying Incident, and demonstrate that “reconstruction of the past under new ideas” can occur even during the development process of cases, and 2) clarify how such a situation can affect the fact finding practice of bullying based on the testimony of classmates.

In previous studies, how the supposedly confirmed “suicide rehearsal” (but was actually hearsay) became a “problem” and how the fact-finding of the “suicide rehearsal” ended, has not been sufficiently examined. In this paper, therefore, we analyze the intelligiibility of television news scenes and show that the use of “suicide rehearsal” as “important testimony” led to the construction of a “concealment” problem. In conclusion, referring to the possibility of experiences transformation through new ideas by Ian Hacking, this paper demonstrated that “suicide rehearsal” reporting could have enabled the “reconstruction of the past under a new ideas” for schoolmates at the school where the incident occurred.

This paper focuses on the men suffering from himote that means sexual frustrations such as not having a girlfriend to consider clinical sociologically life experiences of marginalized men. The analysis of their interviews in a group talk show the following. They think that they are inferior to and alienated in the surrounding people. They are abused in their work place and school. In such a situation, they worship the woman who take kindly to them, and think that they can recover from this unfortunate situation by going about her. They make their moves on women, but not considering her feelings. They hold self-abnegation because they repeat stalking acts such as hankering after women and are refused by them. 

From the above-mentioned analysis, this paper reveals that the suffering they hold is a series of processes that feeling in inferior and a sense of estrangement through damaged experiences, and deeply attaching to a woman, strongly denying themselves from a sense of guilt of their act and failure of being refused by her. 

This paper discusses how Regional Youth Support Station (RYSS) cooperates with schools in order to accept young people who have difficulties in working. Especially, this paper focuses on the case of a nonprofit organization “X” which runs a RYSS in urban area X1 (RYSS X1) and a RYSS in rural area X2 (RYSS X2). RYSS X1 and X2 share the information about students who have difficulties in various aspects with schools, hold meetings with related organizations, and do outreach to schools. The result shows that RYSS X2 cooperates with schools well than X1. RYSS X2 shares much information about students with schools and cooperates with not only high schools but junior high schools. One of the factors of such effective relationships is that X employs persons who have experiences and social capital rooted in the region X2 as the staffs of RYSS X2.