Intro; Foreword: The Development of Research on Japanese Education in a Global Age; Series Editors Introduction; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Japanese Education in a Global Age; 1.1 The "Uniqueness" of Japanese Education; 1.2 Aims, Frameworks, and Approaches; 1.3 Organization of the Book; 1.4 The Future of Sociology and Education: Our Views; References; Part I: How Have Japan's Education Policies Been Discussed by Social Scientists?; Chapter 2: Japanese Public Education: A Comparative Perspective of Attitudes Toward Educational Inequality

2.1 A Low Public Expenditure on Education in Japan?2.2 Research Background; 2.2.1 Education Finance Issues in the Japanese Sociology of Education; 2.2.2 Social Policy and People's Attitudes; 2.3 Analysis; 2.3.1 Data and Variables; 2.3.2 Analytical Strategy; 2.4 Results; 2.4.1 Distributions of People's Attitudes from the ISSP Survey; 2.4.2 Results of HLM; 2.4.3 An Analysis of the Japanese Samples; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Universal Participation in School Education as a Historical Process in Modern Japan; 3.1 Introduction

3.2 Literature on the History of Japanese Education as an Egalitarian, Universal Process3.3 The Universalization Process of Japanese Primary Education in the Late Nineteenth Century; 3.4 Expansion from the Elite Stage to the Mass Stage in Secondary Education in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; 3.5 After World War II: The Second Wave of Mass Participation in Education; 3.6 Conclusive Discussion; References; Chapter 4: Borrowings, Modernity, and De-axialization: Rethinking the Educational Research Agenda for a Global Age; 4.1 Introduction: From Golden Age to Global Age

4.2 Japan as Successful Borrower: The Empirical Foci4.3 Japanese Modernity as Externally Driven: The Conceptual Lens; 4.4 Japanese Modernity as Non-axial: The Theoretical-Philosophical Hypothesis; 4.5 Sociology of Education in Japan: A Reevaluation of the Field; 4.6 Conclusion: Betwixt Convergence and Incommensurability Through De-axialization; References; Part II: What Contemporary Challenges is Japan's Education Facing?; Chapter 5: Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Education: From Gender Disparity to Intersectional and Multiple Gender/Sexualities

5.1 Introduction: Educational Attainment and Beyond5.2 Gender Disparity Studies; 5.2.1 Gender Disparity in Occupational and Educational Attainment; 5.2.2 Gender Inequalities at School; 5.2.3 From Gender Disparity to Gender Construction: Cultural Practice of "Hidden Curriculum"; 5.3 Gender Multiplicities, Sexualities, and Intersectionalities; 5.3.1 Feminist Poststructuralism and Japanese Education; 5.3.2 Masculinities and Sexualities in Japanese Education; 5.3.2.1 Masculinities in Japanese Education; 5.3.2.2 Sexualities in Japanese Education; 5.3.3 Intersectionalities in Japanese Education