Amnesty International Report on Japan
2005; 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001; 2000
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A country report on human rights conditions |
| An
Anatomy of the Homogeneity and Innocuousness of Japanese Editorials |
Keizo Nanri's comparison between Japanese & US
editorials (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the
Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra, 2004; PDF
format) |
| The
Beginning of the End of Postwar Politics |
Yamaguchi Jiro on "the Japanese political
landscape in the wake of the important House of Councillors election
held on 11 July 2004, and the prospects for the emergence of a new
political formation" (Japan Focus, Nov. 2004) |
| Breaking
Japan's Iron Triangle |
Gavan McCormack on the malaise of Japan's 'construction
state' (New Left Review, Jan.-Feb. 2002) |
| Constitutional
Revision: Present Situation and Future Challenges |
Briefing report for the foreign press by Osamu
Nishi, Professor, Faculty of Law, Komazawa University (Mar. 23, 2005) |
| Corruption
through Political Contributions in Japan, Report on Recent Bribery
Scandals,1996-2000 |
Paper by Verena Blechinger (Oct. 2000 Transparency
International Workshop on Corruption and Political Party Funding) |
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Japan
 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001;
2000; 1999; 1998
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Reports by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor,
U.S. Department of State |
| Defense
of Japan |
Public-relations pamphlet from Japan Defense
Agency, "describing defense policies, the activities of the
SDF" (Self-Defense Force) (2003?, PDF format) |
| Defense
of Japan 2004 White Paper (Summary) |
Japan Defense Agency's official report |
| Durable
Democracy: Building the Japanese State |
Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Special Report by
John Dower, Donald Robinson, & Franziska Seraphim (March 2003;
PDF format) |
| Final
Report of the House of Representatives Research Commission on the
Constitution |
(in Japanese) Report of committee charged with
conducting research on Japan's postwar constitution as a step for
possible future amendments (Apr. 15, 2005) |
| Internet
under Surveillance 2004: Japan |
From Reporters sans frontires's 2004 report
on "Obstacles to the free flow of information online" |
| Japan
Media Review |
"an online-only journal that examines how
emerging technologies are changing the practice, ethics, law, business
and politics of journalism in Japan" |
| Japan
Self-Defence Force. 2004 |
73 pictures with explanatory text from Magnum
Photos |
| Japanese
Political Reform: Progress in Process |
Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Program Special Report
by Shin'ichi Kitaoka et al. (PDF format; Jan. 2004) |
| Joi
Ito's Web |
(in English & Japanese) Personal blog on
technology & society, politics, revolution
in Japan, etc., by an Internet entrepreneur & thinker who
is a bridge between American & Japanese cultures |
| Koizumi
and the LDP March Toward Constitutional Revision |
Commentary by Yakushiji Katsuyuki of the Asahi
Shinbun (Oct. 2004) |
| Official
Visits to Yasukuni Shrine Invite the Revenge of Reason |
Kyoto philosopher Umehara Takeshi on domestic & international
issues raised by Primer Ministerial visits to Yasukuni Shrine honoring
Japan's war dead (Japan Focus, July 2004) |
| Politics
and Personality: The Anatomy of Japan's Worst Archaeology Scandal |
Shoh Yamada's essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Summer
2002) |
| Reflections
on Voting, Identity, & Self-Affirmation in Japan |
Essay by Deok Keun Matthew Ahn in Harvard
Asia Quarterly (Autumn 2000) |
| The
Sentencing of Asahara: Victims and Victimizers |
Commentary by Richard A. Gardner, Sophia University
(Japan Focus, May 2004) |
| Terror
in Japan: The Red Army (1969-2001) and Aum Supreme Truth (1987-2000) |
Essay by Meredith Box and Gavan McCormack (Japan Focus, May 2004) |
| Trouble
at the Top: Japan's Imperial Family in Crisis |
David McNeill on the media & the royal family
and Herbert P. Bix on the troubled imperial family & the constitution
(Japan Focus, Aug. 2004) |
| Undercurrents
in Japanese Politics |
Special report published by the Woodrow Wilson
Center's Asia Program (Feb. 2002; PDF format) |
| The "Underworld" Goes
Underground: Yakuza in Japanese Politics |
Eiko Maruko's paper in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Summer
2002) |
| Whither
Japan? |
An ASIAToday special report (March 21, 2001):
news coverage; commentary; resources |
| Why
Japan Cannot Reform: The Social Contract and the Welfare System |
Ulrike Schaede's essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Spring
2003) |
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