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» Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other - Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
» Korean Herald - Japanese Nationalism: Old News or New Worry? - Editorial giving a warning that there is a current radicalization of an otherwise stable and healthy Japanese nationalism, and it could cause strong friction in the future. [Free registration required].
» Kyodo News - Japan Ranks 14th Among OECD members in Quality of Life Survey - Article documenting how Japan's quality of life rates compared to other countries, through factors including infant mortality, health care, education, and labor conditions.
» Paving Over the Kansai - On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job" - 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 - Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.
» The Japan Times - Opening of Labor Market Delayed - Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners.
» The Japan Times - Running the Sex Trade Gantlet - Article on shady bait-and-switch tactics used to force Southeast Asian women into prostitution in Japan's 2.37 trillion yen a year entertainment industry.
» The Japan Times - Time Running Out for Shrinking Japan - Proposes opening up Japan to more third world immigrants to solve its population crisis.
» The Really Big Questions - Examines the Japanese characteristic of "nihonjinron", a kind of ethnic nationalism.
» The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control - Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.