Japan News

Although not frequestly updated, yet another source of enlightened commentary is PPJ. With recent articles on "Bashing Gender Equality: Establishing a System that Skews the Population on All Sides," which talks about the ruling party's attempts to toy with the gender equality that is supposedly enshrined in the country's constitution, or "Japan should turn back from a collision … [Read more...] about Introducing People’s Plan Japonesia

The Japan Press Weekly is a publication of the Japan Press Service. While affiliated with a political party (Japanese Communist Party), which might cause some readers to overlook it, many of the articles present information on Japanese society that you will not find in other English language (or even most Japanese language) newspapers and journals. For example, one might … [Read more...] about Introducing the Japan Press Weekly

Japan Focus, the version here part of ZNet's Asia Watch section, is actually a subsite of the even larger main Japan Focus site. Though there is a very clear progressive thread that runs through many of the articles (many originally in Japan and translated into English), the website even includes articles from right-leaning sources in order to present a broader overview of … [Read more...] about Introducing Japan Focus

WHAT DO WE WANT ? Brkic SULEJMAN 2005. 06. 10 "Every generation needs a new revolution": Thomas Jefferson … [Read more...] about Yugoslav Activist in Japan Seeking Translators

A documentary on Japan's war crimes was modified due to pressure from rigtists from the Liberal Democratic Party. Long suspected by progressive activists, this was confirmed recently by reports in the Asahi Shimbun quotiing senior government and NHK officials. Yet the money scandal involving NHK has gotten more coverage than this attempt to distort Japan's wartime and … [Read more...] about Comfort Women, NHK, Fuso-sha-, Tsukurukai, ABE Shinzo–VAWW-NETジャパん