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2585	Yamaguchi Jiro	Political Fragility in Japan and the Resignation of Abe Shinzo: Is Japanese Democracy Going Backwards? Read More
2573	Donald M. Seekins	The Geopolitics and Economics of Burma's Military Regime, 1962-2007. Understanding SPDC Tyranny Read More
2559	Arudou Debito	Japan's Future as an International, Multicultural Society: From Migrants to Immigrants Read More
2523	Deborah J. Milly	What Japanese Policymakers Should Know about How Government Contributes to Irregular Immigration Read More
2518	Uchihashi Katsuto	Japanese Deregulation: Big Corporations are Destroying People's Lives Read More
2486	Walden Bello	All Fall Down: The Asian Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism and Economic Miracles Read More
2480	Ono Kazuoki	The Australia-Japan FTA Negotiations: What Do they Really Mean? Read More
2457	Okada Motoharu	Is it Fine for Japan to Do Without Agriculture? Negotiating Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Read More
2454	William W. Kelly	Why Is Japanese Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal? Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in a Tohoku Region Read More
2435	Andre Vltchek	The Kingdom of Tonga and the Fight Against Feudalism in the Pacific Islands Read More
2425	Graham Brooks, Tom Ellis, C Lewis	Pachinko: Declining Popularity or a Continuing Japanese Social Problem? Read More
2396	Sakanaka Hidenori	The Future of Japan's Immigration Policy: a battle diary Read More
2383	Robert Prey, S O Lee	Tragic Fire Illuminates South Korea's Treatment of Migrant Workers Read More
2329	Mark Selden, C.K. Lee	China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution and Pitfalls of Reform Read More
2267	Ronald Dore	Japan's New Miracle Economy: Neoliberalism and the Poverty of Wealth Read More
1843	Saskia Sassen	Locating Cities in Global Networks: Tokyo and Regional Structures of Interdependence Read More
1864	Hisane MASAKI	Japan Stares into a Demographic Abyss Read More
2142	Niwa Uichiro	The "Second Plateau": Japan's Economy and Structures of Inequality Read More
2022	Kosugi Reiko	Youth Employment in Japan's Economic Recovery: 'Freeters' and 'NEETs' Read More
2036	Hiroshi ONO	Whither Japan's Lifetime Employment System? Read More
2078	Arudou Debito	The Coming Internationalization: Can Japan assimilate its immigrants? Read More
2075	Alastair McLaughlan	Japan's Burakumin: An Introduction Read More
1946	Jamie Doucette, Owen Miller	From APEC to WTO: Trajectories of Protest in Korea and East Asia Read More
2012	Charles Weathers	Equal Opportunity for Japanese Women - What Progress? Read More
2163	Chan Chee Khoon	Neo-liberalism vs. Communitarian Capitalism: Japan's Dilemma Read More
1849	Richard Freeman	China, India and the Doubling of the Global Labor Force: who pays the price of globalization? Read More
1727	Gregory Clark	Japan's Migration Conundrum Read More
1844	Kamata Satoshi	A Minamata Verdict and an Administrative Travesty Read More
2079	Nicholas Eberstadt	Power and Population in Asia Read More
1761	Amano Kazuya	An Eighteen-Year-Old Works to Abolish Child Labor Read More

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