Politics
This category is for sites on Japanese politics.
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 changes in the process of administrative reform in the 1990s.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kamikubo.html
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 the parents' marital status.http://www.crcjapan.com/
Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC)
- Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.http://cnic.jp/english/
Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
- Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Margerison.html
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.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Matsuda.html
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.]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/movies/04RICH.html
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.http://www.icasinc.org/2003/2003l/2003lrxl.html
Japan Focus
- Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.http://www.japanfocus.org/
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 security policy.http://www.jiaponline.org/
Japan Politics Links
- Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.http://is.dal.ca/~finbow/Japan.html
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.http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op29.html
Sorry Is the Hardest Word
- Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.http://www.feer.com/cgi-bin/auth/wwwauth.pl?link=http://www.feer.com/articles/2001/0103_08/p056current.html
Tokyo Progressive
- Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/