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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.
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html
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The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control
Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm
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Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity
Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.
http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.html
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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.
http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html
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