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	Media Intimidation in Japan: A Close Encounter with Hard Japanese Nationalism - http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/McNeill.html Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.
	Maintaining Identities: Discourses of Homogeneity in a Rapidly Globalising Japan - http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Burgess.html Looks at the ideological tools that maintain the idea of Japan as a mono-cultural, homogeneous society and investigates multiculturalism and internationalization in Japan.
	Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella - http://www.nautilus.org/archives/nukepolicy/ Investigation on the stationing of nuclear weapons in Japan on US military bases and vessels, violating Japan's stand to be a nuclear weapon free nation.
	Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other - http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.
	Paving Over the Kansai - On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job" - http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op1.html Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers.

	Robert Fulford's Column About Japanese Identity - http://www.robertfulford.com/identity.html Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.
	Japanese Gun Control - http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.
	Freed From Captivity in Iraq, Japanese Return to More Pain - http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/international/asia/23JAPA.html Young Japanese civilians taken hostage and nearly killed in Iraq return home to be treated like criminals.
	Japan's Neo-Nationalism: The Role of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo Legislation - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html Essay on the growing friction in the Japanese government's directives to use wartime nationalist symbols to bolster student patriotism, and their possible connotations and effects.
	Christian Science Monitor - Japanese Man Publicly Fights Grope Charge - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p08s01-woap.html Documents how after women started speaking out, some men now fear false accusations of groping women on trains. Explores Japan's legal system and culture of losing face.

	The Rise of Japan - The Vocabulary of Control - http://www.newint.org/issue231/control.htm Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.
	Defining Japan's Role in the Post-Taliban World Order Tokyo's Path to Great Power Status - http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/HamaiandMauch.html An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror.
	Tokyo Trains Tackle Groping Problem - http://www.zipadeeday.com/viewarticle.asp?article=35 Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters.
	Asia Times Online - In Japan, The Crime Rate Also Rises - http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FH28Dh01.html Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it.
	Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan - http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html Study concluding that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes.

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