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This category is for the listing of sites dealing with political issues relevant to Japan.

日本語のホームページはこちら.

Subcategories

• Human Rights and Liberties
• Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
• War Crimes

Resources in This Category

• Asia Times Online - In Japan, The Crime Rate Also Rises

  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FH28Dh01.html
  Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it.

• Christian Science Monitor - Japanese Man Publicly Fights Grope Charge

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p08s01-woap.html
  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.

• Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/HamaiandMauch.html
  An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror.

• Japan's Neo-Nationalism: The Role of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo Legislation

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html
  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.

• Japanese Gun Control

  http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html
  An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.

• Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Burgess.html
  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

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McNeill.html
  Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.

• New York Times - Outcast Status Worsens Pain of Japan's Disabled

  http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/world/outcast-status-worsens-pain-of-japan-s-disabled.html?pagewanted=1
  Article on how severely disabled in Japan are often treated as something shameful and as social pariahs.

• Paving Over the Kansai - On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job"

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html
  Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers.

• Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity

  http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.html
  Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.

• The Japan Times - Is 'Disability' Still a Dirty Word in Japan?

  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/life/2006/08/27/life/is-disability-still-a-dirty-word-in-japan/
  Describes how mainstream society is slowly opening up to the physically or mentally impaired.

• The Japan Times - No-tell Love Hotels Cash In Catering to the Carnal

  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/10/16/news/no-tell-love-hotels-cash-in-catering-to-the-carnal/
  Describes the history, workings, and economics of Japan's love hotel industry.

• The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control

  http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm
  Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.

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