Politics
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.
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 chang…
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…
Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC)
Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
Economist - What Ails Japan?
Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms
A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
Hollywood's Land of the Rising Cliché
Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
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].
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.
Japan Focus
Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
Japan Politics Links
Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later
Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
Political Corruption in the Ranks
Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
Sorry Is the Hardest Word
Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.
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.
The Economist - Insecure
Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.
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 …
The Occupation of Japan as an Exercise in "Regime Change": Reflections After Fifty Years by a Participant
Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
Their Home Isn't North Korea (THINK)
A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
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