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Children's Rights Council of Japan
Organization fighting international abduction and working to assure children in Japan of meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
http://www.crcjapan.com/
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Hollywood's Land of the Rising Cliché
Examines Japan as portrayed in western movies, and how the perceptions have changed with the export of Japanese popular culture. [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/movies/04RICH.html
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Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Years Later
Examines Karel van Wolferen's seminal work critical of the Japanese Establishment eight years after its publication, and examines if some camparisons hold up.
http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op10.html
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Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Policy Change in Japan
Examines a hypothetical model of policy-making by focusing on the relationship between the transition of political power between government agencies and the subsequent policy changes in the process of administrative reform in the 1990s.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kamikubo.html
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Consequences - A Change in Security Posture: Japan and North Korea
Discusses Japan's recent proactive stance in foreign policy making.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Margerison.html
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Exceptionalism in Political Science: Japanese Politics, US Politics, and Supposed International Norms
A paper intended to demonstrate some problems inherent in the arguments surrounding exceptionalism in Japan and the United States.
http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Matsuda.html
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The Occupation of Japan as an Exercise in "Regime Change": Reflections After Fifty Years by a Participant
Compares and contrasts the US occupation of Japan after WWII with post-Hussein Iraq.
http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op29.html
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Japan as the New South Korea
Essay from the Institute for Corean-American Studies on Japan filling the role of South Korea for influence on China.
http://www.icasinc.org/2003/2003l/2003lrxl.html
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