Issues

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

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/

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

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

Asia Times Online - In Japan, The Crime Rate Also Rises - Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it. <small>(August 28, 2004)</small>
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FH28Dh01.html

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. <small>(July, 2001)</small>
http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html

Tokyo Trains Tackle Groping Problem - Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters. <small>(December 5, 2000)</small>
http://www.zipadeeday.com/viewarticle.asp?article=35

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

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

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

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. <small>(June 27, 2003)</small>
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p08s01-woap.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

Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity - Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves. <small>(November 5, 1997)</small>
http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.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

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