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 | Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other - Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
|  | 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.
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 | 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.
|  | 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.
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 | Japanese Gun Control - An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.
|  | 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.
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 | Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism - Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
|  | 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.
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 | Re-thinking Rural Japan - Examines several characteristics of modern farming in Japan along with changing situations, trends, and its economic future.
|  | The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control - - Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
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 | Asia Times Online - In Japan, The Crime Rate Also Rises - - Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it. (August 28, 2004)
|  | Mainichi - Schoolgirls Sniff Gold in Pantie Crackdown - - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government outlaws the trade in soiled knickers from the underaged, but some school girls see another opportunity arise. (June 19, 2004)
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 | 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)
|  | 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)
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 | 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)
|  | 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)
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 | Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity - Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves. (November 5, 1997)
|  | 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)
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