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(June 27, 2003) http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p08s01-woap.html Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century. http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror. http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/HamaiandMauch.html Freed From Captivity in Iraq, Japanese Return to More Pain Young Japanese civilians taken hostage and nearly killed in Iraq return home to be treated like criminals. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/international/asia/23JAPA.html Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella 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. http://www.nautilus.org/archives/nukepolicy/ Japanese Gun Control An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan. http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html Korean Herald - Japanese Nationalism: Old News or New Worry? 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]. (December 10, 2003) http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/12/10/200312100023.asp Kyodo News - Japan Ranks 14th Among OECD members in Quality of Life Survey Article documenting how Japan's quality of life rates compared to other countries, through factors including infant mortality, health care, education, and labor conditions. (April 2, 2004) http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20040402237 Mainichi - Schoolgirls Sniff Gold in Pantie Crackdown The Tokyo Metropolitan Government outlaws the trade in soiled knickers from the underaged, but some school girls see another opportunity arise. (June 19, 2004) http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0406/0619sniff.html Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan Looks at the ideological tools that maintain the idea of Japan as a mono-cultural, homogeneous society and investigates multiculturalism and internationalization in Japan. http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Burgess.html Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism. http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McNeill.html Paving Over the Kansai - On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job" Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers. (November, 1994) http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html Re-thinking Rural Japan Examines several characteristics of modern farming in Japan along with changing situations, trends, and its economic future. http://japanfocus.org/129.html Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves. (November 5, 1997) http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.html The Japan Times - Opening of Labor Market Delayed Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners. http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20030717a1.htm The Japan Times - Running the Sex Trade Gantlet 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. (November 11, 2003) http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20031111zg.htm The Japan Times - Time Running Out for Shrinking Japan Proposes opening up Japan to more third world immigrants to solve its population crisis. (September 2, 2003) http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030902zg.htm The Really Big Questions Examines the Japanese characteristic of 'nihonjinron', a kind of ethnic nationalism. http://acadprojwww.wlu.edu/vol4/BlackmerH/public_html/easia/really.html The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese. http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm Tokyo Trains Tackle Groping Problem Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters. 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