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1902	Yamaguchi Jiro	What Next for Japan s Democratic Party? Read More
1717	Fukushima Mizuho	The Constitution is Japan's Pledge of Peace to the World Read More
1812	The Asahi Shimbun Culture Research Center	Japan's New Blue Water Navy: A Four-year Indian Ocean mission recasts the Constitution and the US-Japan alliance Read More
2164	David McNeill	What Role Japan's Imperial Family? Read More
1764	Kato Shuichi	Power Politics and Willing Masses Read More
1847	Yoshikazu SAKAMOTO	The Postwar and the Japanese Constitution: Beyond Constitutional Dilemmas Read More
1924	Gavan McCormack	Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion Read More
1845	Yoshida Reiji	60 Years On Japanese Debate the Tokyo Tribunal's Legitimacy Read More
1852	Umebayashi Hiromichi	Time for Japan to Review the U.S. Troop Presence Read More
1796	David McNeill	Bite the Dog: cracking down on the Japanese press Read More
1871	Herbert P. Bix	The Emperor, Modern Japan and the U.S.-Japan Relationship Read More
1765	Christine de Matos	The Allied Occupation of Japan - an Australian View Read More
2039	Herbert P. Bix	Hirohito and History: Japanese and American Perspectives on the Emperor and World War II in Asia Read More
1967	Yomiuri Shimbun	Yasukuni: Behind the Torii: From government-run shrine for war heroes to bone of contention Read More
1726	Yoshida Reiji	New Weapon Wielded in Old Tomb Debate: Information disclosure law reveals uncertainty over emperor's graves Read More
1865	Herbert P. Bix	Emperor, Shinto, Democracy: Japan s Unresolved Questions of Historical Consciousness Read More
2060	John Breen	Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory Read More
1814	Satoko KOGURE	Turning back the clock on gender equality: Proposed Constitutional revision jeopardizes Japanese women's rights Read More
1919	Eriko ARITA	Engaging History and Peace in a Time of Conflict: A New Documentary on Japan's Constitution Read More
2102	Mari YAMAMOTO	Japan's Grassroots Pacifism Read More
1587	Yoshida Toshihiru	Are Self-Defense Force Soldiers Pawns to be Sacrificed? Read More
1863	Gavan McCormack	Looking Back at the Occupation -- The US and Japan over 60 Years Read More
2064	Nobumasa Tanaka	Defending the Peace Constitution in the Midst of the SDF Training Area Read More
2167	Nobumasa Tanaka	Conscience and a Music Teacher's Refusal to Play the National Anthem Read More
1978	Yoichi Funabashi	Japan's East Asia Problem: A Sixtieth Anniversary Perspective on the Postwar Read More
2092	Yamaguchi Jiro	The Beginning of the End of Postwar Politics Read More
1743	Arudou Debito	JAPANESE ONLY: The Otaru Hotspring Case and Discrimination Against "Foreigners" in Japan Read More
1808	Yakushiji Katsuyuki	Koizumi and the LDP March Toward Constitutional Revision Read More
2024	Shimbun Asahi	The Flag and the Anthem: Enforcing Japanese Patriotism Read More
2143	Yamaguchi Masanori	Death Penalty and the Media Read More

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