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].
Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible.
Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in 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.
Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
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.
Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
Regional /
Asia /
Japan /
Government
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