Japan Focus

If you would like to support the Journal you can do so here with your contribution of $25, $50 or $100 by clicking above.

Join Us:

Peace Philosophy Centre

Dialogue and learning for creating a peaceful, sustainable world.

The Asia-Pacific Journal is available free to all. But your contribution allows us to improve and expand our service in the wake of 3.11.

Donate - $25, $50, $100

Click a cover to order.

All Articles

New Articles Show All Articles Featured Articles Top 10 Articles
ID		To access all other articles: < 1 2 3 4 >	Per page:
3433	Wada Haruki	Resolving the China-Japan Conflict Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands　　日中尖閣諸島問題解決へ向けて話し合いを Read More
3418	Tanaka Sakai	Rekindling China-Japan Conflict: The Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Clash　　日中対立の再燃　　田中宇 •Chinese, Italian translation and Japanese original available Read More
3389	Catherine Lutz	US Military Bases on Guam in Global Perspective　　グアム米軍基地を世界的視野で眺める Read More
3378	Yoshida Kensei	Okinawa and Guam: In the Shadow of U.S. and Japanese “Global Defense Posture”　　沖繩とグアム——日米「世界的防衛体制」の陰で Read More
3369	C. Douglas Lummis, Ahagon Shoko	I Lost My Only Son in the War: Prelude to the Okinawan Anti-Base Movement　　戦争でわたしの一人むすこも戦死しました——沖縄基地反対運動への序曲 Read More
3347	Peter Bosshard	China's Overseas Dam Builders: from Rogue Players to Responsible Actors?　　中国の国外ダム建設業者——ならず者から責任感ある姿へ？ Read More
3309	Eric Johnston, Peter Lee	The Copenhagen Challenge: China, India, Brazil and South Africa at the Barricades　　コペンハーゲンへの挑戦−−中国・ブラジル・インド・南アフリカ共和国バリケードを張る Read More
3292	Catherine Knight	Natural Environments, Wildlife, and Conservation in Japan　日本における自然環境、野生動植物、その保護 Read More
3286	Milton Osborne	The Mekong River Under Threat 　危機迫るメコン河 Read More
3270	Richard Tanter, David von Hippel, Geoffrey Gunn, Arabella Imhoff	Nuclear Power, Risk Management and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia: Volcanic, regulatory and financial risk in the Muria peninsula nuclear power proposal Read More
3211	Vivian Blaxell	Designs of Power: The “Japanization” of Urban and Rural Space in Colonial Hokkaidō Read More
3156	Reinhard Drifte	Territorial Conflicts in the East China Sea – From Missed Opportunities to Negotiation Stalemate Read More
3070	David McNeill, T. Taniguchi	A Solution to the Whaling Issue? Former MOFA spokesman speaks out Read More
3060	Alex Calvo	Somali Piracy, International Customary Law, and the Dispatch of Japan's MSDF Read More
3062	Miyume TANJI	Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan Read More
3044	Hideki YOSHIKAWA	Dugong Swimming in Uncharted Waters: US Judicial Intervention to Protect Okinawa's "Natural Monument" and Halt Base Construction Read More
3025	Urashima Etsuko	Opting for the "Irrational": Tokyo Brushes Aside Okinawan Court Order to End Awase Wetlands Reclamation Project Read More
3013	Katsuya HIRANO	The Politics of Colonial Translation: On the Narrative of the Ainu as a 'Vanishing Ethnicity' Read More
3003	David McNeill, J McCurry	Japan's King of Fish Faces Extinction Read More
2982	David McNeill	Campaigners fight to clear "Tokyo Two" in Whaling Case. Treatment of Greenpeace activists creates worldwide protests Read More
2971	ann-elise lewallen	Indigenous at last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir Read More
2951	Andre Vltchek	The Cook Islands and the Pacific Island Nations: Will the Last Person Leaving Please Turn Off the Lights? Read More
2927	Vaclav Smil	On Meat, Fish and Statistics: The Global Food Regime and Animal Consumption in the United States and Japan Read More
2906	Matthew R. Augustine	Border-Crossers and Resistance to US Military Rule in the Ryukyus, 1945-1953 Read More
2822	Koji TAIRA	Okinawan Environmentalists Put Robert Gates and DOD on Trial. The Dugong and the Fate of the Henoko Air Station Read More
2788	Andre Vltchek	Samoa: One Nation, Two Failed States Read More
2785	John Feffer	Mother Earth's Triple Whammy. North Korea as a Global Crisis Canary Read More
2770	Andre Vltchek	Paradise Lost. Logging and the Environmental and Social Destruction of the Solomon Islands Read More
2734	Ian Storey	Conflict in the South China Sea: China's Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines Read More
2732	Ishimure Michiko	Reborn from the Earth Scarred by Modernity: Minamata Disease and the Miracle of the Human Desire to Live Read More

What's Hot
ID		To access all other articles: < 1 2 3 4 >	Per page:
88	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Ban Ki-moon's Visit to Chernobyl　　潘基文のチェルノブイリ訪問 Read More
89		Fukushima Burning: Anatomy of a Nuclear Disaster　　福島炎上−−核災害の構造 •Japanese text available. Updated Read More
90	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Resign now, Prime Minister Kan　　菅首相、貴方は、即刻、首相を辞任すべきです Read More
91	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Learning From Japan's Nuclear Disaster　　日本の核災害から学ぶ Read More
92		Worldwide Responses to the 20 Millisievert Controversy　　20ミリシーベルト論争への世界的反響 Read More
94		Songs for Fukushima　　福島のための歌数曲 Read More
96	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Alternatives to the IAEA: Greenpeace and Japanese Municipalities Measure Radiation　　国際原子力機関に替わる手段−−グリーンピースと地方自治体、放射線を計量 Read More
97	Matthew Penney	Okinawa’s Fukushima Connection: Nuclear Workers at Risk　　沖縄の福島とのつながり−−原発作業員no Read More
98	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	74% of Japanese Favor Nuclear Phase-out 　　日本人の７４％が原子力廃止に賛成 Read More
99	Cara O'Connell	Feeling the Heat in Fukushima　　福島第一原発、高温での作業 Read More
100	Matthew Penney	Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation　　原発作業員と福島住民のさらされる危険−−ガン専門家の福島観 Read More
101	Andrew DeWit	Japan's Richest Man Challenges Nuclear Future　　日本第一の億万長者、核の将来を問題視 Read More
102	Matthew Penney	The Voices of Ten Million: Anti-Nuclear Petition Movement Launched in Japan　　千万人の声−−反原子力陳情運動、日本で始まる Read More
103	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	A Solar Future? Prospects, Problems, and Japan’s Solar Energy Plans　　太陽熱による将来？期待、問題、および日本の太陽エネルギー計画 Read More
105	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	US Nuclear Technology as a Cure for Japanese Ignorance?　日本人への療法としての米国核技術 Read More
106	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Tokyo Shimbun's Devastating Critique of Fukushima Compensation Bill　　東京新聞社説「東電賠償案株主責任はどうする」 Read More
107	David McNeill	A young man sacrificing his future to shut down Fukushima　　福島第一廃炉化のために自分の将来を犠牲にする若い男 Read More
108	John Eperjesi	Jeju: From peace island to war island　　済州島−−平和の島から戦争の島へ Read More
109	Pio d'Emilia	Dispatches from the No-Go Zone　　立ち入り禁止地帯からの特報 Read More
110	Greg Mitchell	From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Uninhabitable Due to Radiation　　ヒロシマからフクシマ−−日本政府、放射線による居住不可能の広域設定発表へ Read More
112	Matthew Penney	Contamination Outside Fukushima　　福島の範囲を超える汚染 Read More
113	Koide Hiroaki	Japanese Radiation Expert Koide on Fukushima Dangers　原子核物理学専門家小出裕章、福島の危険を語る　 Read More
114	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	What are the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown? Japanese Press Assessments　　福島原発炉心溶融のもたらす結果は？−−日本の諸新聞記事による評価 Read More
115	Hase Michiko	“We want genpatsu in Tokyo!” – The new sarcastic edge of Japan’s anti-nuclear demos　　「東京に原発を！」−−日本の反原発デモに見える新たな風刺性 Read More
116	David McNeill	Blood Money - Fukushima Victims Bitter Over Compensation　　涙金−−補償額を不服とする福島の犠牲者たち Read More
117	David H. Slater	Fukushima women against nuclear power: finding a voice from Tohoku　　福島の女性対原子力発電−−東北からの声 Read More
118	William Underwood	Overseas Hibakusha Lawsuit: Lee Keun-mok's Legacy　　在外被爆者訴訟：三菱徴用工判決から４年　元原告の李さん死去、その足跡 Read More
119	Andrew DeWit	Japan’s Nuclear Village Wages War on Renewable Energy and the Feed-in Tariff　　日本の原発村、再生可能エネルギーと固定価格買取り制度に対し戦闘へ Read More
120	Hirose Takashi	Farewell to Nuclear Power – A Lecture on Fukushima　　原発を即時廃炉に Read More
121	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Japan Nuclear Safety Agency: Radioactive Water Leaks to the Ocean 'Zero' 　　保安院　海への汚染水、ゼロ扱い　「緊急」で法適用外 Read More