-Recent Japan articles in English

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Keiichi 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 Tsukasa, The Ishihara Statement and the 1930s: Japan’s National Psyche Adrift (Nov. 2, 2003)

David McNeill and Andreas Hippin, Has the right hijacked the abductee issue in Japan? (Oct. 12, 2003)

Linda Hoaglund, Stubborn Legacies of War: Japanese Devils in Sarajevo (Oct. 11, 2003)

Fujiwara Kiichi, Prioritizing Japan-U.S. Relations or a Multilateral Diplomacy? (Sept. 28, 2003)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, When is a Terrorist Not a Terrorist? (Sept. 24, 2003)

Ui Jun, U.S. Military Bases and Environmental Problems (Sept. 2, 2003)

Herbert P. Bix, Remembering the Nanking Massacre (Sept. 2, 2003)

Toyoda Naomi, Iraq – A Nuclear Polluted Land (Aug. 28, 2003)

Amanda Suutari, Sumatran Villagers Sue Japan Over ODA Dam (Aug. 14, 2003)

Doi Toshikuni, Baghdad under U.S. Occupation and Iraqi Anger (Aug. 10, 2003)

Itoh Iccho, Nagasaki Peace Declaration, 2003 (Aug. 9, 2003)

Yoichi Funabashi, The Third Atomic Bomb (Aug. 7, 2003)

Akiba Tadatoshi, Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2003 (Aug. 6, 2003)

Kaneko Masaru and Kaneko Masaomi, Is There a Tomorrow for Japanese Society? (Aug. 6, 2003)

Gregory Clark, The SDF’s Shabby Cause to Shed Blood (July 13, 2003)

Terashima Jitsuro, Japan Should Not Follow U.S. Logic of Force (July 12, 2003)

Mizushima Asaho, A New Security Framework for Northeast Asia (July 8, 2003)

Ishiyama Hisao, Japanese Textbooks Censored to Support US Wars (July 8, 2003)

Keiichi Tsuneishi, Japanese Government Should Dispose of World War II Vomiting Gas (June 23, 2003)

David Wall, Foreign Aggressors Target North Korea Again (June 20, 2003)

John W. Dower, The Other Japanese Occupation (June 20, 2003)

John Barry Kotch, U.S. Occupation of Iraq Recalls Failure in Korea (June 18, 2003)

Yukiko Yamazaki and Andrew Dewit, Fiscal Cuts or Common Sense? Fiscal Decentralization in Japan (June 17, 2003)

Gregory Clark, Finding Shortcuts to Conflict (June 15, 2003)

Umebayashi Hiromichi, Achieving a Nuclear-free Northeast Asia (June 13, 2003)

Asai Motofumi, The Bush Strategy and Japan’s War Contingency Laws (June 2, 2003)

Yoichi Funabashi, Emerging From the Shadow of the Black Ships (May 29, 2003)

Yakushiji Katsuyuki, Japanese Foreign Policy in Light of the Iraq War (May 21, 2003)

Asahi Shimbun, Japanese Chemical Weapons Left in China in 1945 (May 20, 2003)

Wada Haruki, The Era of Northeast Asia: Prospects for Peace (May 9, 2003)

John Dower, Occupations and Empires: Why Iraq is not Japan (May 9, 2003)

Wada Haruki, Recovering a Lost Opportunity: Japan-North Korea Negotiations in the Wake of the US War on Iraq (May 2, 2003)

Eriko Arita, Japanese Discrimination Against Korean and other Ethnic Schools (April 30, 2003)

Desaix Anderson, Korea Crisis and the US Strategic Future in East Asia (April 20, 2003)

Chalmers Johnson, Korea South and North at Risk (April 17, 2003)

Henmi Yo, The Iraq War Deeply Invades Our Souls (April 12, 2003)

Christian Scherrer, Depleted Uranium and the ‘Liberation’ of Iraq: Report from Hiroshima (April 10, 2003)

Ito Ruri, Engendering the Concept of ‘Peace’ – On Violence Against Women (April 2, 2003)

Letter from Okinawan Citizens to the UN Security Council on Removal of Nuclear Weapons (March 14, 2003)

John Dower, A Warning from History: Don’t Expect Democracy in Iraq (March 9, 2003)

Nakamura Tetsu, “Before My Very Eyes.” Afghan Children Killed by Bombing (March 7, 2003)

Maeda Akira, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal on Afghanistan (March 3, 2003)

Antiwar Leaflet from Okinawa. The Wolf and the Lamb (Feb. 25, 2003)

Gavan McCormack, Sunshine, Containment, War: The Korea Options (Feb. 23, 2003)

Takashima Nobuyoshi, Abduction and the New Nationalism (Feb. 23, 2003)

Kyuma Fumio, The 51st State? Show Understanding, Not Support for the US War (Feb. 23, 2003)

Maeda Hisao, Toward the National Warfare State (Feb. 13, 2003)

Maeda Tetsuo, The Japanese Military and Constitutional Crisis After 9/11 (Feb. 13, 2003)

Urashima Etsuko, New Okinawa Base Dooms the Dugong (Feb. 6, 2003)

Tanaka Nobumasa, Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese Nationalism and the Constitution (Feb. 6, 2003)

Tanaka Nobumasa, High School Students Challenge “National Anthem Enforcement” (Dec. 15, 2002)

Gavan McCormack, North Korea – Coming in from the Cold? (Dec. 14, 2002)

Abe Takeshi, The Feud Behind the Scenes: Relocating the Futenma Air Base (Dec. 14, 2002)

Hoyano Hatsuko, Nagano as Japan’s First Citizen Revolution (Dec. 4, 2002)

Kang Sangjung, The Historical Significance of the Japan-North Korea Summit (Nov. 10, 2002)

Medoruma Shun, “From the Islands of the Rumbling Sea” (Nov. 10, 2002)

Jack Moyer, Farming out Death – Habitats Pay the Price of Progress (Oct. 31, 2002)

Wada Haruki, Can North Korea’s Perestroika Succeed? (Oct. 16, 2002)

Antiwar Leaflet from Okinawa, “GIs This Means You!” (Sept. 28, 2002)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Declarations: Against Nuclear War and WMD (Sept. 25, 2002)

Nakamura Tetsu, Words on the Occasion of Receiving the Okinawa Peace Prize (Sept. 24, 2002)

Nakamura Tetsu, An Omen. The Death of a Young Afghan Child (Sept. 23, 2002)

Japan ZNet Japan Watch… last updated 2001

All of the above are here:
http://www.zmag.org/asiawatch/japan_focus.htm