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On August 18, 2006, the entire collection of English language commentaries was abruptly pulled from the website of the Japan Institute of…
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Tanaka Tetsuro has been protesting his dismissal from an electronics company for a quarter of a century. Now his struggle, one of…
[This Japan Focus special report was coordinated and is introduced by David McNeill.] In July 2005, the United Nations special rapporteur on…
Imelda Marcos, once ranked as one of the ten richest women on the planet, is broke. Or so she says. “I am…
Japanese democracy took a large step backwards with the arrest and conviction of three people for posting antiwar fliers. Is Obora Toshiyuki…
Hollywood superstar Clint Eastwood wants to tell both sides of one of the Second World War’s most infamous battles. Is he walking…
“Nothing attests more dramatically to the psychological sway of its lingering shadow than the very reluctance of today’s Japanese to debate in…
The granddaughter of Japan’s wartime leader Tojo Hideki has become one of his staunchest public defenders since emerging from obscurity a decade…
Over 35 years since returning home from the Vietnam War, a former US soldier has returned a poignant diary he recovered from…
After nine years of stalling and prevarication over the replacement of Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, and nearly eighteen months of protests…