The Urban-Culture Research Center (UCRC) at Osaka City University (OCU) is proud to present the tenth issue of UrbanScope, an online, open-access journal. As the name suggests, UrbanScope covers a broad spectrum of urban issues featuring contributions encompassing various perspectives within the humanities.
Special Topic1: The Dismantling of the Status System in Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Introduction
Timothy D AMOS - Lamp Oil and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Mio SHIMAZAKI - The Dissolution of Outcast Status and Outcast Property in Meiji Japan
Michael ABELE - Panhandling, Subsistence, and Poverty Management in Meiji Tokyo1
John PORTER - The Struggle to Modernize Community Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
Waka HIROKAWA - Discussant’s Comments
Maren EHLERS
Special Topic2: The Scope of Public Education in Japan and Germany with a Focus on “School Absenteeism”
- Introduction
Kemma TSUJINO - Research and Management of School Absenteeism in Germany
Heinrich RICKING & Gisela C. SCHULZE - Investigation and Research of Absenteeism in the Sumiyoshi Ward Investigative Report (March 31, 2017)
Haruo SOEDA (Representative), Hisayoshi MORI, Nozomi SHIMADA, Junnichi OHARA, Wei Wei, Rina HIRATSUKA, Akitomo NAKADE, Yui FUJITA, Rie KOMURA, Azuki OKA, Mana KAWASAKI and Tomoyo KAWAZOE - Aspects of self-exclusion in the Japanese education system
Sabine MEISE - The Changing Meaning of Schools for Children
Ayumi FUKAWA - The Scope of Public Education in Japan and Germany with a Focus on “School Absenteeism”
Kemma TSUJINO
Research Note
- A bifurcation of rural gentrification?
Natsuki KAWAGUCHI
Editorial Note
