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 | Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan - Examines a hypothetical model of policy-making by focusing on the relationship between the transition of political power between government agencies and the subsequent policy changes in the process of administrative reform in the 1990s.
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 | Citizen's Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) - Provide information and public education on nuclear power and nuclear issues in Japan.
|  | Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea - - Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
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 | Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms - A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
|  | Hollywood's Land of the Rising Cliché - Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
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 | Japan as the New South Korea - Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.
|  | Japan Focus - Offers Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, international relations, economics, social movements, war and terror, and historical memory.
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 | The Japan Information Access Project - Conducts scholarly research and analysis on critical Asia policy issues to strengthen international understanding of Japanese and northeast Asian science, technology, economic and security policy.
|  | Japan Politics Links - Links collection on Japanese government, politics, and political history.
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 | The Occupation of Japan as an Exercise in "Regime Change": Reflections After Fifty Years by a Participant - Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
|  | Political Corruption in the Ranks - Artictle on how and why do political corruption and scandals keep popping up in Japan with alarming frequency.
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 | Sorry Is the Hardest Word - Asserts that old style politics is why Japanese leaders fail to address Japan's wartime brutalities.
|  | Their Home Isn't North Korea (THINK) - A non-profit organization based in Tokyo with information and resources on the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
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 | Tokyo Progressive - Contains politically oriented news, articles, and links related to grass roots campaigning to improve society, culture, government, and the environment.
|  | Beware a More Muscular Japan - Asserts that the US should be wary that Japanese aid and troops for Iraq have strings attached. From the Christian Science Monitor. (October 30, 2003)
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 | The Economist - Insecure - - Article documenting that now along with their jobs and pensions, Japanese now fear for their safety. (October 23, 2003)
|  | Washington Post.: No Relief on Japan's Isle of Pain - Article describing troubles on Hokkaido when economic realities force off the flow of pork barrel spending. (August 1, 2003)
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 | Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration - A New York Times article on Japan's emerging crisis of depopulation and cultural resistance to the only solution that can save it. [Free registration required]. (July 24, 2003)
|  | The Demographic Dilemma: Japan's Aging Society - Three articles with differing viewpoints on what effect Japan's rapidly aging society with have on its economy as well as influence on the world. [PDF] (January, 2003)
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 | Economist - What Ails Japan? - - Author argues that after 12 years of failure in attempted economic reforms, fixing Japan's political system is nearly impossible. (April 18, 2002)
|  | Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later - Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up. (January, 1998)
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