Politics Society and Culture Japan
Politics Society and Culture Japan
Politics
This category is for sites on Japanese politics.
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- Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.
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- A New York Times article on Japan's emerging crisis of depopulation and cultural resistance to the only solution that can save it. [Free registration required].
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- Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
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- Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
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- Examines a hypothetical model of policy-making by focusing on the relationship between the transition of political power between government agencies and the subsequent policy changes in the process of administrative reform in the 1990s.
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- Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
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- Conducts scholarly research and analysis on critical Asia policy issues to strengthen international understanding of Japanese and northeast Asian science, technology, economic and security policy.
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- Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
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- Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
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- Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.
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- Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
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- Three articles with differing viewpoints on what effect Japan's rapidly aging society with have on its economy as well as influence on the world.
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- Organization fighting international abduction and working to assure children in Japan of meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
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- Article describing troubles on Hokkaido when economic realities force off the flow of pork barrel spending.
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- Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
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- A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
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- Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
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- Asserts that the US should be wary that Japanese aid and troops for Iraq have strings attached. From the Christian Science Monitor.
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- Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.
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- Japan's red ink hit a record high of 703 trillion yen at the end of fiscal 2003, or 5.5 million yen per person, further jeopardizing Japan's long term future.
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- Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
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- An editorial giving a review of Japanese postwar reconstruction, and asserts that George W. Bush's comparison of Iraq with postwar Japan ignores the facts. [Free registration required.]
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- A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
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- Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
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