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Published in: HomeJapan's protestors puncture the Western myth of political consensusActivism is alive and well in Japan, despite a media narrative of a depoliticised society.
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Published in: HomeJapan, the place with the strangest drug debate in the worldDespite its relatively low drug abuse figures, the Japanese system is failing to treat addicts.
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Published in: 50.50#MeToo in Japan: 'I was told not to bring shame on the country, with my story’Journalist Shiori Ito spoke about her own experience of sexual assault in 2017 – a year marked by allegations...
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Published in: HomeWhy do people go to cat cafes? Loneliness and relaxation in a time of neoliberalismAfter I began researching the explosion of ‘cat cafes’ in post-economic bubble Japan, I discovered an entire healing...
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Published in: HomeJapan after JapanPost-Fukushima social movements, the rebirth of history and tacit futures. An interview.
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Published in: HomeThe anti-US military base struggle in Okinawa, JapanMany visitors stay for a prolonged period, become regular visitors or even completely relocate to Okinawa, as Aihara...
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Published in: 50.50Japan's military sexual slavery: whose agreement?The South Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s military sexual slavery was announced on 28 December, 2015, but it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“The refugee problem is a presage of the great migrations of the twenty first century.”
This is an interview with Michel Foucault conducted by H.Uno, translated by R Nakamura for Shûkan posuto and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Time to move beyond nuclear tribalism"Question: Is nuclear power good or bad? Answer: No. Some nuclear is good, some is bad. For example, the Govt....
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Published in: HomeUnderstanding Japan's collective traumaThe Japanese have been bound together by a collective experience of horror since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years laterWill an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy”...
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Published in: HomeIn Japan: controversial US army base sparks outrage among local populationIt is time activists across the globe extended solidarity to those protesting to prevent the construction of a new...
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Published in: HomeThe crisis of democracy in JapanJapan is on the brink of changing from a pacifist state to one prepared to go to war if necessary. Now, more than...
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Published in: openSecuritySearching for justice: the Tokyo Women’s TribunalJustice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States...
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Published in: openSecurityHow many minutes to midnight?Despite Hiroshima's scars, history cruelly reveals one instance after another in which the US elected to maintain...
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Published in: HomeForecasting India-Japan ties under Modi and AbeIndia's newly elected prime minister Narendra Modi and Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe enjoy a friendship which...
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Published in: HomeThe Great East Japan earthquake and the search for "gaman"The Japanese philosophy of gaman - dignified endurance in the face of suffering - perhaps best explains the...
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Published in: Participation NowDemocratizing inequalitiesParticipation has become a necessary basis for institutional authority in an era of declining social mobility and...
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Published in: openSecurityBeyond Yasukuni: Japan's march towards militarism
From constitutional revisions to education reform, the Japanese government is intent on undoing the country's...
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