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This category is for sites on Japanese politics.

Websites submitted here must be Japan related and in English. Sites in Japanese should be submitted to the appropriate World/Japanese subcategory.

日本語のホームページはこちら.

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Resources in This Category

• Beware a More Muscular Japan

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p09s02-coop.html
  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

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kamikubo.html
  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.

• Children's Rights Council of Japan

  http://www.crcjapan.com/
  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.

• Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC)

  http://cnic.jp/english/
  Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.

• Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Margerison.html
  Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.

• Economist - What Ails Japan?

  http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1076723
  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

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Matsuda.html
  A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.

• Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration

  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/international/asia/24JAPA.html?ex=1060747200&en=0d497edbe64f1c25&ei=5070
  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

  http://www.icasinc.org/2003/2003l/2003lrxl.html
  Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.

• Japan Focus

  http://www.japanfocus.org/
  Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.

• Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op10.html
  Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.

• The Economist - Insecure

  http://www.economist.com/node/2156625
  Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.

• The Japan Information Access Project

  http://www.jiaponline.org/
  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.

• The Occupation of Japan as an Exercise in "Regime Change": Reflections After Fifty Years by a Participant

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op29.html
  Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.

• Tokyo Progressive

  http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/
  Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.

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