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Christian Science Monitor - Japanese Man Publicly Fights Grope Charge
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. (June 27, 2003)
Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other
Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
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.
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.
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.
Japan's Neo-Nationalism: The Role of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo Legislation
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. (July, 2001)
Japanese Gun Control
An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.
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)
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)
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)
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.
Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
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)
Re-thinking Rural Japan
Examines several characteristics of modern farming in Japan along with changing situations, trends, and its economic future.
Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity
Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves. (November 5, 1997)
The Japan Times - Opening of Labor Market Delayed
Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners.
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)
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)
The Really Big Questions
Examines the Japanese characteristic of 'nihonjinron', a kind of ethnic nationalism.
The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control
Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
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