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.
Subcategories 2
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Sites 15
- Japan Focus Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
- 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.
- Tokyo Progressive Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
- 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.
- 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].
- Economist - What Ails Japan? Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
- Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Economist - Insecure Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety.