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The Japan Observer Online	Online site and monthly print magazine carrying  storiesandviewpointswhich are ignored by the mainstream press, and serve asa notice-boardanddiscussion forum for political, economic, and cultural topics of interesttoforeign residents and workers. The dominant language in the magazineisEnglish, but there are occasional articles in Spanishand Japanese aswell.	E
Tokyo Progressive Website	Also know as the "Chocopaul" site because of the webmaster's addictionto chocolate, containing a good list of progressive net resources aroundtheworld. Also has a weekly newsletter and a  page of articlesonJapan.	E/J
Japan Computer Acces s	JCA is a Japan-based computer service provider for people's movements,linked to the international APC networks. This page has lots of links,mostly inJapanese, on Japanese social movements.	E/J
Darrell G Moen	Site with research links, film transcripts for students and progressives,essays, readings, film transcripts, etc. Deals with such issues as as human rights, Third World development, postwar U.S. foreign policy, militarization,andthe environmental impact of globalization, etc.	E
Ohara Insitute/�@黷�ﾂ舳�ﾂ螂鬲籌�庭ﾋ蟋聢鞴	Comprehensive list/reviews of various social movements in Japan. AffiliatedwithHoseiUniversity.  There is anotherlistfromsomeone at Toyama University here.	E/J
Japan Policy Research Institute	Site run by Chalmers Johnson and Steven C. Clemons with information on a range of issues, including Okinawan military bases.	E/J

 

United for a Multicultural Japan	An organization for foreign residents of Japan who aremarriedtoJapanese nationals and other long-term residents.	E/J
I SSHOKikaku	ISSHO KIKAKU is a non-profit organization formed by Tokyo-based foreignnationalswhichuses performing arts projects, symposia and computer networkingtofacilitatethe internationalization process in Japan.	E/J
The Community	A home page and mailing list devoted to issuesofconcernto foreigners in Japan. The Japan Observer is one of the participatingorganizations.	E
Minamata Forum/�ﾖ��ﾅ@Forum	Website devoted to this  ecological and human health disaster.	E/J

The sites here are all maintained by individuals with a variety of interestsandhistoriesrelated to Japan.

WilliamWetherall'ssitecovers a great deal of ground and features articles and researchon thefollowing Japan-related issues:  Crime, Death,HEalth, History,Language,Literature, Media, Minorities, Sex, Society,Suicide and Welfare.It alsofeatures contributions by ohn C. Maher, StephenMurphy-Shigetmatsu, MarkSchreiber, and Tei Taikin (Chung Daekyun).  David Arudou's (Dave Alderwinckle)sitehasa number of essays on such issues as nationality and internationalization,Healso insitutued a suitagainsttheoperators of a public bath in Hokkaido as well as the cityof Otarufordiscrimination.  Tony Boys has a site witharticles(manybilingual) on such issues as food and energy in Japan. He alsohas links to a variety of ecological organizations.  Professor Watanabe Takesato of Doshisha University, Kyoto, has severalinformative articles on the Japanese media and history:  Japan'sMedia at Present,  BrainFoodPoisoning ,and  Infringementsof Privacy Rights . Also, TheRevisionistFallacy in The Japanese Media is here in both Japanese  and English-- ﾉﾅﾉfﾉBﾉAﾇﾃ�ﾜﾇﾃ�暮j錣黻鯆總ﾅ[ﾅ[ﾉiﾉ`ﾅqﾉKﾉX驢ﾅr�､�ﾋﾇ隻mﾇgﾇjﾅw鱚�_ﾅE�_�_ﾅxﾉﾜﾉ_ﾉﾑ麝�_ﾇﾃﾉPﾅ[ﾉXﾅEﾉXﾉ^ﾉfﾉBﾅxﾅ@�ﾘ騏鬲�ﾂ舳麝�丈w籌ﾅw�]�_ﾅE鬲籌篏舳ﾅx衵纉釛ﾅA猩纉纉纉�N餔裨葹.

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NuclearInformation Center/ 螂駲 �ﾕ 鴉 �� 勒 �ﾒ 驢	The Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, a Japanese groupworkingagainstnuclear power.	E/J
Tokyo Rape Crisis Center	Support for victims of sexual violence.	E/J
Anti-wiretapping site	Fighting police abuse of civil rights.	J
VAWW Site/ﾅi頤�ｴﾇﾃ麝袿ﾉAﾉWﾉA�@�ﾏﾇ管ｮﾇﾘﾇﾈ ﾅu�裙��ﾈ褂ﾅv1994�Nﾅj	On violence against women, including the Women's International WarCrimesTribunal2000 for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery	E/J
�夘ﾃ荀｣｢薇ﾇ��謄  ﾇﾕﾇ｢ﾇﾁﾇｻﾇ｢ﾅI猩罕ﾅEﾇど管�ﾇ� ﾉlﾉbﾉgﾉ霰[ﾉN	Group in West Tokyo opposing Hinomaru and Kimigayo.	J
�夘ﾃ荀ﾅE薇ﾇ��毒@蔔�A鴉��/猩罕鷏��	University student page on Hinomaru and Kimigayo.	J
�夘ﾃ荀ﾅE薇ﾇ��読TﾇO�追TﾇO��	Another site on the flag and anthem.	J
�ﾏ�c�･��ﾅE蝟鯣ﾉzﾅ[ﾉﾄﾉyﾅ[ﾉW	Homepage of HIV activist Ryuhei Kawada, who contracted HIV through unheated blood products. Links to many sites, including his mother's.  Etsuko Kawada  was elected to political office when another politican washit by a political scandal.	J
�褥kﾇgﾇhﾇuﾉRﾉ~ﾉﾖﾉjﾉPﾅ[ﾉVﾉ睨�ﾉY	Hiv-related site.	J
筅�ﾋ��ﾉ菲�ﾉN鏝	JCA list of links on social and political issues, mostly in Japanese,thoughsome of the sites listed may have English pages.	E/J
Japan ProgressiveDirectory/JCA-NET�S�丞�迸	Similar listing from JCA, presented alphabetically. Also search engine.	E/J
Japan Council againstA&HBombs/ 螂�ﾖ羝	Anti-nucleargroup.	E/J
Forum90DeathPenalty Watch/ 鯑藝�p驃鉈遉阨�ﾒﾇﾃ�ｷ閇ﾇ輔ﾅﾇ�ﾇﾈﾉtﾉHﾅ[ﾉ篷ﾄ90	Links to other groups, such as AmnestyInternationalJapan. All links are in Japanese, but here aresome Englishlinks to AmnestyInternational andits anti-DeathPenaltycampaign.	J
Jubillee2000-DebtNet/ �r闢鉈ﾇﾃ隨�ｱﾇ撰n遒ﾉlﾉbﾉgﾉ霰[ﾉN鴦�ｱ罩ﾅi蜆ﾉWﾉﾖﾉrﾉ菁[2000鴦�ｱ罩ﾅj	A global movement of coalitions of civil society  organizations in both indebted and creditor countries for cancellation of all unpayable and illegitimate debts burdening the countries of the global South.	E/J
Corporate Watch Japan	Localversion of the international Corporate Watch website, a watchdog site showinghow people are directly affected by corporate abuses. Concernedwith  corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmentaljustice.   A list of Japaneseissuescan be found here.Alistof international issue-oriented links on such topics as biotechnology, human rights, indigenousrights ,etc. can be found here(fulllist).	E/J
Friends of the Earth Japan/�n聊ﾇﾃ�FﾉWﾉﾉﾉpﾉ�	International environmental NGO	E/J
Migrant's Net/燻鏤�J�るｳﾇ泉A�局�ﾇﾈ�S鉈ﾉlﾉbﾉgﾉ霰[ﾉN	Solidarity with Migrant/Undocumented workers	E/J
Japan Press Service	Good non-mainstream coverage of Japanese social issues and politics.There is a weekly print version which you can order by email.	E
Anti-Kobe Airport Site	The next Narita?	J
NuclearSurvival	Following the JCO accident, a site dedicated to anti-nuclear powerissues	E/J
PARC-Pacific Asia ResourceCenterandAMPO Magazine	PARC is a secular, non-profit, multifunctional organization workingtogether with the various people's movements in Japan to facilitate developmentofsolidarity links with people in struggle in Asian, Pacific and other countries.Thesite is mostly in Japanese but there is a list of theirexcellent EnglishlanguageAmpoMagazine(paper only) here.	E/J
Problems ofU.SMilitaryBases in Okinawa  (PDF FILE)	Good background information onthe struggle against U.S.basesinJapan	E
IMADR  and the Burakumin issue.	IMADR is devoted to eliminating all forms ofdiscriminationaroundthe world and was founded by one of the groups representingthe Burakuminminoritygroup, the BurakuLiberation LeagueﾅiKaidoﾅj,havingbeen affiliated with the former Socialist Party.  As in anyprogressivecommunity, there are sometimes differences on basic ideologyand strategy.Another major Buraku group,affiliated with the Japanese CommunistParty, is Zenkairen ,andtheir Englishpageis here.  There is also a group affiliated with the mainstreamLiberal Democratic Party. An overview of  some of the issues involvedcan befound on William Wetherall's site:  RecentMediaCoverage, CensorshipinRising Sun  and  MonkeyBusinessandCaste.   Together with George A. De Vos, hewrote "MinoritiesinJapan".	E/J depending on the link
Political Parties (see middle column)	The home pages of the following political parties are here.  �呶{罘餾�}/Japanese Communist Party	E/J
Japan Environmental Monitor	Although no longer published, the site is still maintained and hasawealthof material.	E/J
Other Peace and Human Rights ﾇｪﾇﾃ�ｺﾅF���a秧�ﾆ/麝袿	ActAgainstAids AmnestyInternationalJapaneseSection Citizen'sCentreforDiplomacy ECPAT,Japan,Kansai JapanInternationalCenterfor the Rights of the Child	E/J depending on the link
More Environmental Sites ﾇｪﾇﾃ�ｺﾅF莅羔�庭ﾋ	ASEEDJapan ActionforGreeningSahel, AGS MidorinoSahel GlobalEnvironmentalForum GreenpeaceJapan SarawakCampaignCommittee	E/J depending on the link
Health and medical 褊躁/燗��	AssociationofJapaneseAgencies for Supporting Africa ChernobylChildren'sFund,Japan JapanChernobylFoundation JapanInternationalFoodfor the Hungry KonkokyoPeaceActivityCenter MadCowDisease	E/J depending on the link
Educational and Vocational Training 繖狠/鉈遉羝�ﾕﾉvﾉ酲Oﾉ篷ﾄ	India-JapanMaitriAssociation	E
ODA-related	OdaNet AsiaMinkanKoryuGroup JapanInformationNetworkJapan Directory CampaignforFutureof Filipino Children, CFFC ﾉAﾉCﾉZﾉbﾉN InternationalAngelAssociation JapanCommitteeforNegros Campaign, JCNC JapanInternationalFoodfor the Hungry, JIFH NipponKokusaiKiga-TaisakuKiko JapanInternationalVolunteerCenter, JVC JapanSilverVolunteers,JSV JapanTeamofYoung Human Power, JHP GakkowoTsukurukai MinsaiCenter NipponInternationalCooperationfor Community Development OISCAInternational PlanInternationalJapan SavetheChildrenJapan, SCJ ShaplaNeer-Citizens'Committeein Japan for Overseas Support TerraPeopleAssociation,TPA ChikyuShiminnoKai TheHungerProjectJapan TheJapanAsianAssociation and Asian Friendship Society TheKiyosatoEducationalExperiment Project Inc., KEEP Wakachiai(Sharing)Project WorldVisionJapan	E/J depending on the link

Kanto ForeignLanguageTeachers'Unions' Federation	KTUF was formed in 1990 and its membership comprises unionswhosemembersare foreign language teachers in the Kanto region. Almost all ofthese unionsare members of NUGW (national Union of General Workers-Zen Rokkyo) butmembership of KTUF is not restricted to NUGW unions.  Also a link to the University Teachers' Union.	E
Tokyo GaigoUnion	Site in Japanese, English and French.	J/E/F
General Union(Kansai)	Organizing many small to medium sized enterprises.	E
NOVA TeachersUnion	ﾅ@ﾅ@ﾅ@	E
BlacklistedJapanese Universities   GreenlistedJapanese Universities	Schools which discrimitae against non-Japanese nationals get on theblacklist.Theblacklistis predictably longer than the greenlist.	E
NationalUnionofGeneral Workers-Zen Rokyo (Kanto)   �S鉈猩���J�ろg釿�裙��ﾏ��ﾇﾃﾉzﾅ[ﾉﾄﾉyﾅ[ﾉW	Organizing many small to medium size enterprises, including langaugeteachers	J/E
Zenroren	National Confederation of Labor Unions	E/J
J R(JapanRailway Workers) Union	Wokers who have been struggling against ever since the railways wereprivatizedandtheir members were fired.	E/J
Nichibenren/Japan Federation ofBarAssociations		E/J
Japanese LawyersInternationalSolidarity		E/J
Japan Lawyers AssociationforFreedom		J
Japan Young Lawyers Association		J
Japan Judges Network		J

Japan via the Web	Lots of links on Japan, on a varietyofsubjects.	E
Japan Documentation Center and Asian Reading Room	Documents from the Library of Congress in theU.S.,concerningJapan. A good resource for researchers.	E
Asiaco	Asiaco.com, a good search engine for the Asian region.	E
Okinawa Current Events	A well designed and well informed site on current events and the historyofOkinawa,the "island of U.S. bases."	E
Hemp in Japan	A web page with interesting information on the history of hemp in Japanandcurrentanti-marijuana laws, etc.	E