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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.
• 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.
• The Japan Times - Opening of Labor Market Delayed - Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners.
• 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.
• 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.
• Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism - Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
• The Really Big Questions - Examines the Japanese characteristic of "nihonjinron", a kind of ethnic nationalism.
• The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control - Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.

• Kyodo News - Japan Ranks 14th Among OECD members in Quality of Life Survey - Article documenting how Japan's quality of life rates compared to other countries, through factors including infant mortality, health care, education, and labor conditions. (April 2, 2004)
• 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)
• The Japan Times - Running the Sex Trade Gantlet - Article on shady bait-and-switch tactics used to force Southeast Asian women into prostitution in Japan's 2.37 trillion yen a year entertainment industry. (November 11, 2003)
• The Japan Times - Time Running Out for Shrinking Japan - Proposes opening up Japan to more third world immigrants to solve its population crisis. (September 2, 2003)
• 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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