Issues Society and Culture Japan
Issues Society and Culture Japan
Issues
This category is for the listing of sites dealing with political issues relevant to Japan.
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- Proposes opening up Japan to more third world immigrants to solve its population crisis.
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- Young Japanese civilians taken hostage and nearly killed in Iraq return home to be treated like criminals.
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- Article documenting how Japan's quality of life rates compared to other countries, through factors including infant mortality, health care, education, and labor conditions.
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- Editorial giving a warning that there is a current radicalization of an otherwise stable and healthy Japanese nationalism, and it could cause strong friction in the future. [Free registration required].
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- Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers.
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- Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.
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- Looks at the ideological tools that maintain the idea of Japan as a mono-cultural, homogeneous society and investigates multiculturalism and internationalization in Japan.
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- An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror.
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- Investigation on the stationing of nuclear weapons in Japan on US military bases and vessels, violating Japan's stand to be a nuclear weapon free nation.
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- Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it.
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- Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters.
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- Essay on the growing friction in the Japanese government's directives to use wartime nationalist symbols to bolster student patriotism, and their possible connotations and effects.
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- Examines several characteristics of modern farming in Japan along with changing situations, trends, and its economic future.
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- Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
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- Article on shady bait-and-switch tactics used to force Southeast Asian women into prostitution in Japan's 2.37 trillion yen a year entertainment industry.
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- Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
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- An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.
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- Examines the Japanese characteristic of "nihonjinron", a kind of ethnic nationalism.
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- Study concluding that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes.
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- Documents how after women started speaking out, some men now fear false accusations of groping women on trains. Explores Japan's legal system and culture of losing face.
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- Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
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- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government outlaws the trade in soiled knickers from the underaged, but some school girls see another opportunity arise.
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- Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners.
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