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Top: Regional: Asia: Japan: Society_and_Culture: Issues:

Issues (18)

• Top/World/Japanese/社会

» Asia Times Online - In Japan, The Crime Rate Also Rises
   Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it.
   http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FH28Dh01.html

» Christian Science Monitor - Japanese Man Publicly Fights Grope Charge
   Documents how after women started speaking out, some men now fear false accusations of groping women on trains. Explores Japan's legal system and culture of losing face.
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p08s01-woap.html

» Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other
   Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
   http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html

» Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status
   An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror.
   http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/HamaiandMauch.html

» Freed From Captivity in Iraq, Japanese Return to More Pain
   Young Japanese civilians taken hostage and nearly killed in Iraq return home to be treated like criminals.
   http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/international/asia/23JAPA.html

» Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella
   Investigation on the stationing of nuclear weapons in Japan on US military bases and vessels, violating Japan's stand to be a nuclear weapon free nation.
   http://www.nautilus.org/archives/nukepolicy/

» Japan's Neo-Nationalism: The Role of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo Legislation
   Essay on the growing friction in the Japanese government's directives to use wartime nationalist symbols to bolster student patriotism, and their possible connotations and effects.
   http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html

» Japanese Gun Control
   An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.
   http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html

» Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan
   Looks at the ideological tools that maintain the idea of Japan as a mono-cultural, homogeneous society and investigates multiculturalism and internationalization in Japan.
   http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Burgess.html

» Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism
   Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
   http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McNeill.html

» New York Times - Outcast Status Worsens Pain of Japan's Disabled
   Article on how severely disabled in Japan are often treated as something shameful and as social pariahs.
   http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/world/outcast-status-worsens-pain-of-japan-s-disabled.html?pagewanted=1

» Paving Over the Kansai - On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job"
   Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers.
   http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html

» Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan
   Study concluding that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes.
   http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html

» Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity
   Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.
   http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.html

» The Japan Times - Is 'Disability' Still a Dirty Word in Japan?
   Describes how mainstream society is slowly opening up to the physically or mentally impaired.
   http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20060827x1.html

» The Japan Times - No-tell Love Hotels Cash In Catering to the Carnal
   Describes the history, workings, and economics of Japan's love hotel industry.
   http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071016i1.html

» The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control
   Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
   http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm

» Tokyo Trains Tackle Groping Problem
   Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters.
   http://www.zipadeeday.com/viewarticle.asp?article=35

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