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2373	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Japan's 'Comfort Women': It's time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word) Read More
2368	Alexis Dudden, K MIZOGUCHI	Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women' Read More
2357	Mark Schreiber	Japan's Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Stumbles on 'Baby Machines' Read More
2352	Norma Field	The Courts, Japan's 'Military Comfort Women,' and the Conscience of Humanity: The Ruling in VAWW-Net Japan v. NHK Read More
2332	Hayashi Hirofumi	Government, the Military and Business in Japan's Wartime Comfort Woman System Read More
2329	Mark Selden, C.K. Lee	China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution and Pitfalls of Reform Read More
2320	Charles Weathers, S North	The End of Overtime Pay: More Production or Just More Work for Japan's White Collar Workers? Read More
2305	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Free Speech - Silenced Voices: The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair Read More
2265	Christian Caryl, A. KASHIWAGI	This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society Read More
2264	Keith Bradsher	Vietnam's Roaring Economy, the World Stage and the US Read More
2247	David McNeill	Still Taboo After All These Years: Japan's New Imperial Heir and the Media Read More
1674	Uchihashi Katsuto	Now Is the Time to Reclaim Rural Japan: Toward Societal Renewal Read More
1864	Hisane MASAKI	Japan Stares into a Demographic Abyss Read More
2022	Kosugi Reiko	Youth Employment in Japan's Economic Recovery: 'Freeters' and 'NEETs' Read More
2003	Norimitsu ONISHI	Aging and Official Abandonment Carries a Japanese Village to Extinction Read More
1566	Shibata Naoji	Angkor Wat and Asian Tourism: Hordes bring money, but at what cost? Read More
2114	Tony McNicol	Japan Gender Conflict Sparks Censorship Debate Read More
1651	J. Sean Curtin	Japan s Imperial Succession Debate and Women s Rights Read More
1774	Tai Wei Lim	Women with AIDS: Lessons from Indonesia and Singapore Read More
1856	Iwasaki Atsuko	Open the Door-- Japan's Policy of Exclusion of Refugees (Part 1) Read More
2164	David McNeill	What Role Japan's Imperial Family? Read More
1692	Laurel Bossen	Forty Million Missing Girls: Land, Population Controls and Sex Imbalance in Rural China Read More
2012	Charles Weathers	Equal Opportunity for Japanese Women - What Progress? Read More
1658	Morinaga Takuro	Koizumi reforms create 'hidden underdogs' Read More
1814	Satoko KOGURE	Turning back the clock on gender equality: Proposed Constitutional revision jeopardizes Japanese women's rights Read More
1641	J. Sean Curtin	Women and Japan's New Poor Read More
1723	Joshua Roth	Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities Read More
1680	Mark Selden	Marine Major Convicted of Molestation on Okinawa Read More
1963	Donna Amoroso	NGOs Helping Migrant Workers in Japan Read More
1669	Andrew DeWit	Japan's Third Way: A Public Intellectual Confronts Japan's Economic Stagnation Read More

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154	Alexis Dudden	Korean Americans Enter the Historical Memory Wars on Behalf of the Comfort Women　　コリアン系アメリカ人、従軍慰安婦に代わって歴史的記憶の戦いに参入 Read More
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