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» Beware a More Muscular Japan - Asserts that the US should be wary that Japanese aid and troops for Iraq have strings attached. From the Christian Science Monitor.
» 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.
» Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) - Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
» Economist - What Ails Japan? - Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
» 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.]
» Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration - 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 Focus - Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
» Japan Politics Links - Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
» 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.
» Los Angeles Times - History in the Remaking - An editorial giving a review of Japanese postwar reconstruction, and asserts that George W. Bush's comparison of Iraq with postwar Japan ignores the facts. [Free registration required.]
» Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later - Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
» Political Corruption in the Ranks - Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
» Sorry Is the Hardest Word - Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.
» The Demographic Dilemma: Japan's Aging Society - Three articles with differing viewpoints on what effect Japan's rapidly aging society with have on its economy as well as influence on the world.
» The Economist - Insecure - Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.
» The Japan Information Acccess 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.
» Their Home Isn't North Korea (THINK) - A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
» Tokyo Progressive - Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
» Washington Post.: No Relief on Japan's Isle of Pain - Article describing troubles on Hokkaido when economic realities force off the flow of pork barrel spending.