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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. (June 27, 2003)
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

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. (July, 2001)
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

Korean Herald - Japanese Nationalism: Old News or New Worry?
Editorial giving a warning that there is a current radicalization of an otherwise stable and healthy Japanese nationalism, and it could cause strong friction in the future. [Free registration required]. (December 10, 2003)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/12/10/200312100023.asp

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

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. (November, 1994)
http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html

Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity
Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves. (November 5, 1997)
http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.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. (December 5, 2000)
http://www.zipadeeday.com/viewarticle.asp?article=35