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Beware a More Muscular Japan
Asserts that the US should be wary that Japanese aid and troops for Iraq have strings attached. From the Christian Science Monitor. (October 30, 2003)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p09s02-coop.html |
Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan
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.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kamikubo.html |
Children's Rights Council of Japan
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.
http://www.crcjapan.com/ |
Hollywood's Land of the Rising Clich?
Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/movies/04RICH.html |
Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration
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]. (July 24, 2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/international/asia/24JAPA.html?ex=1060747200&en=0d497edbe64f1c25&ei=5070 |
Japan as the New South Korea
Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.
http://www.icasinc.org/2003l/lim_rob1.html |
Japan Focus
Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
http://www.japanfocus.org/ |
Japan Politics Links
Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
http://is.dal.ca/~finbow/Japan.html |
Los Angeles Times - History in the Remaking
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.] (December 8, 2003)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-dower8dec08,1,4855754.story |
Mainichi - Japan Debt Hits 5.5 Mil. Yen Per Person
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. (June 26, 2004)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040626p2a00m0dm005000c.html |
Political Corruption in the Ranks
Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
http://www.gate39.com/society_politics/politicalcorruption.aspx |
The Demographic Dilemma: Japan's Aging Society
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. [PDF] (January, 2003)
http://wwics.si.edu/events/docs/ACFE9.pdf |
The Economist - Insecure
Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety. (October 23, 2003)
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2156625 |
The Japan Information Access Project
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.
http://www.jiaponline.org/ |
Tokyo Progressive
Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/ |
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