Issues
This category is for the listing of sites dealing with political issues relevant to Japan.
Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other
- Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html
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.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/HamaiandMauch.html
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.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/international/asia/23JAPA.html
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.http://www.nautilus.org/archives/nukepolicy/
Japanese Gun Control
- An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html
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.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Burgess.html
Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
- Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McNeill.html
Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan
- Study concluding that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes.http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html
The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control
- Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm