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by Kenichi AsanoKenichi Asano is a Professor of Communication Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.from Censored 2004Most people from this region, as well as other parts of the globe, would be quite surprised to hear the assertion that Japan is one of the most underdeveloped states when it comes to the development of democracy and healthy journalism in the … [Read more...] about -Why Japan Remains a Threat to Peace and Democracy in Asia

By Gregory Elich(Note: This is an updated version of an article that originally ran on ZNet a couple of months ago.)For all the ballyhoo surrounding the North Korean admission of a nuclear weapons program in meetings with U.S. officials, one salient fact has been overlooked. It never happened. Western news reports repeated endlessly the claims that North Korean officials … [Read more...] about -Targeting North Korea

All of the below are here:http://www.zmag.org/asiawatch/japan_focus.htmAbout Japan FocusKeiichi Tsuneishi, Disposing of Japan's World War II Poison Gas in China (Nov. 10, 2003)Hiratate Hideaki, Teacher Suicides and the Future of Japanese Education (Nov. 4, 2003)Asahi Shimbun, Article 9, Iraq and Revision of the Japanese Constitution (Nov. 4, 2003)Yoshida … [Read more...] about -Recent Japan articles in English

by Yoshida TsukasaTranslation for Japan Focus by Richard Minear and Michael Molasky[Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro, and a man widely considered a leading candidate to succeed Koizumi as Prime Minister, is notorious for shooting from the hip, that is for making inflammatory and racist statements. Perhaps none so resonated with the logic of assassination that marked 1930s … [Read more...] about -The Ishihara Statement and the 1930s:Japan’s National Psyche Adrift

http://www.radicalendar.org/group/imcjapan/all/29 nov Buy Nothing Day Japan … [Read more...] about -Protest calendar