| Annual
Report on Government Measures for Persons with Disabilities (Summary)
2003 |
Report by the Cabinet Office (Dec. 2003) |
| Annual
Report on the Aging Society |
Submitted annually to the Diet by the government
since 1996: Status of Aging and Implementation of Measures for the
Aging Society; planned Measures for the Aging Society |
| Buraku
Liberation & Human Rights Research Institute |
(in Japanese & English) Homepage of "one
of the leading research institutes aimed to eliminate all forms of
discrimination, particularly Buraku problem in Japan" |
| Citizen's
Basic Living Survey 平成1２年 国民生活基礎調査の概況 |
(in Japanese) A government survey with extensive
tables for 2000 (released Aug. 2002) |
| The
Demographic Dilemma: Japan's Aging Society |
Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Special Report by
John Creighton Campbell, Paul S. Hewitt, & Chikako Usui (Jan.
2003; PDF format) |
| Demography,
Asia, East, Japan |
congsang.net's bibliography of scholarly articles
(PDF format) |
 Education
Statistics |
Official data from the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science, & Technology |
| The
Educational System of Japan: Case Study Findings |
A U.S. Department of Education publication
(June 1998) |
| The
End of Isolation: Hansen's Disease in Japan |
Ryuichi Kitano's essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Summer
2002) |
| Failure Database
Project |
(in Japanese) Government project cataloging
notable failures in Japanese society |
| A
Foreign Country in Japan: Sugamo Prison |
Ishida Takeshi's review of Utsumi Aiko's Sugamo
Prison: The Peace Movement of the War Criminals in the context
of contemporary problems of Japanese society (Japan Focus,
July 2004) |
| GayNet
Japan (GNJ) |
"a non-profit community service organization
... provid[ing] a friendly, at-home, supportive atmosphere for gay
people" |
| In
Pictures: Japan's Homeless |
A BBC News photo essay on "a park in Osaka
where residents have formed a homeless people's association" |
| Japan,
Land of Rising Poverty |
J Sean Curtin on problems arising from social
changes over the last decade, "particularly the massive rise
in divorces involving children" (Asia Times, Feb. 11,
2005) |
| Japan
Cabinet Office: White Papers: English; Japanese |
Reports on social conditions & government
policy |
| Japan's
Baby Bust: Causes, Implications, and Policy Responses |
Robert D. Retherford and Naohiro Ogawa on Japan's
fertility trend ( East-West Center Working Papers, Population and
Health Series, Apr. 2005; PDF format) |
| Japan's
Changing Labor Structure |
Japan Times editorial (Aug. 24, 2004) |
| The
Japanese Association for Death Education and Grief Counseling |
(in Japanese & English) Non-profit organization
aiming "to provide a forum available to all through which the
issues of living and dying can be approached and studied, and action
taken where necessary" |
| Japan's
Aging Population: A Challenge For its Economy and Society |
An AsiaTODAY special report (Oct. 7, 2003):
analysis & commentary; news; background; links |
| Government
Policies in Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2002 |
From the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science, & Technology |
| The
Japan Institute for Labour Policy & Training |
(in Japanese & English) News; research reports; Japan
Labor Review; statistics; The Japanese Journal of Labour
Studies; events & information; links |
| The
Japanese Mafia, Yakuza |
An essay on the origins, history, structure & activities
of the Yakuza |
| Let's
Pollute: A Tribute to Japan's Disregard for the Environment |
An essay for Electronic Green Journal by
Xavier E. Gros (Dec. 1999) |
| Male
Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan |
Mark McLelland's paper in Intersections (Issue
3, Jan. 2000) |
| National
Health Insurance Systems |
From Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
(JPMA), an explanation of Japan's system of universal health coverage |
| Once
More the Doctors have Disappeared from the Okinawan Islands |
Moriguchi Katsu on the acute shortage of medical
personnel in Okinawa (Japan Focus, July 2004) |
| Owed
Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan |
A Human Rights Watch report (September 2000) |
| Population
Aging in Japan: Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability |
An International Monetary Fund Working Paper
by Hamid Faruqee & Martin Muhleisen (April 2001) |
| Quality-of-Life
Policy |
Government white papers on the national lifestyle;
national surveys on national lifestyle; documents related to consumer
policy |
| Re-thinking
Rural Japan |
Nishida Yoshiaki and Ann Waswo on the emerging
debate about the future of farming & of food in Japan (Japan
Focus, July 2004) |
| Sendai
Castle: the Uses & Abuses of Heritage |
John Morris's page on the controversy over
the plan to restore Sendai Castle |
| Social
Watch Country Report: Japan |
Compiled by an international network checking
on the fulfillment of internationally agreed commitments on poverty
eradication & equality: present situation; progress & regression;
signatures & ratifications |
| Speaking
of Life: Life Histories of the Institutionalised Elderly in Kotobuki |
Yongmei Wu's paper in Intersections (Issue
7, March 2002) |
| Viewed
from the Inside Out: Beyond the Behavioristic Approach to Japanese
Classrooms |
Essay by Sawako Suzuki in Harvard Asia
Quarterly (Autumn 2000) |
| White
Paper on Traffic Safety in Japan |
Presented annually to the Diet by the Cabinet
Office: traffic accidents & safety measures during the last fiscal
year; traffic safety measures for implementation during current fiscal
year (PDF format) |
| Why
does the Hokkaido Popular Education Research Movement Really Matter? |
Elena Kolesova on "groups of schoolteachers
and academics who have challenged official education policy in Japan
over the past century" (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial
Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra,
2004; PDF format) |
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