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These are some older stories that you may still find relevant. You can also search using the following categories:
2007-2000 by month Chronologically By topic 1997-2002 By topic 2002-2008
Note that the web site was revised several times using different hosts over the first 10 years, Some lost material has also been recovered using the WAYBACK machine (Internet Archive). As a result, the same article may often be found in two different categories, some dates may be wrong, a link may have stopped working, or stories may appear with different dates due to being re-edited.
1997-2002
GENDER/ ジェンダ
Includes women and advertising.
GLOBALISATION/グ ローバリゼーション
Includes articles on corporate criminals, the dangers of privatisation, how neoliberalism affects Indian famers, historical information on the Seattle protests and the WTO, and water privatisation among others. Also privatisation of education, world debt, and the effectof multinationals Pepsi and Coca Cola on the environment and people in India.
GM FOOD/遺伝仕組み会食品
Various articles on corporate criminal Monsanto, the pros and cons of GM food, and Mad Cow disease.(Also see THIS Mad Cow report from the Japan section)
HEALTH-ENVIRONMENT/環 境問題 -健康上の問題
Links on tobacco, disability and capitalism, sustainable agriculture, climate change and more.
HUMAN RIGHTS...WAR/人権..戦争
A very large section with many articles and links on Iraq and Afgahnistan, protest, Israel and Palestine, repression, the School of the Americas terrorist training school, 9-11, media censorship, racism, the wars in the former Yugoslavia/Baltic area, U.S. use of weapons of mass destruction, East Timor, more.
JAPANESE SOCIETY/日本の社会
Articles on selective memory and World War II (Nanking, Hiroshima), the Japanese right wing, Japanese police repression, privatisation and neoliberalism Japanese-style, unemployment, nuclear accidents, the relationship beween Alberto Fujimori and Japan, Amesty International reports on Japanese human rights issues, the docile Japanese media, the myth of increasing foreign crime, forced confessions, immigration and ethnicity, the Ehime Maru sinking, Okinawa and US bases, NHK censorship, the destruction of Mt Takao for a new roadway, homelessness, education, Japan Tobacco, promoting pollution in developing countries, food safety, Mad Cow.
2002-2008
MEDIA/メ ディア
Burma, HIV Scandal, Niigata earthquake, Mad Cow Disease report blocked by Japanese government, the Japanese peace constitution, Democracy Now Japan, more.
JAPANESE/ 日本語
Many Japanese links and articles, for example:
ア フガニスタン、パレスチナ／イスラエル、東チモール・インドネシア, イ ラク侵略攻撃について ( 益岡賢), 厚 生労働省「住居喪失不安定就労者等の実態に関する調査」における,など
JAPAN & ASIA/日本とアジア
Articles on the increasing number of poor as people slip through the social safety net, teachers opposing the forced singing of Kimigayo, nationalism and militarism, Okinawa, Japan and US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Japanese death penalty, Comfort Women, North Korea,
WORLD/ 世界
Burma, HIV Scandal, Niigata earthquake, Mad Cow Disease report blocked by Japanese government, the Japanese peace constitution, Democracy Now Japan, more.
JAPANESE/ 日本語
Many Japanese links and articles, for example:
ア フガニスタン、パレスチナ／イスラエル、東チモール・インドネシア, イ ラク侵略攻撃について ( 益岡賢), 厚 生労働省「住居喪失不安定就労者等の実態に関する調査」における,など
JAPAN & ASIA/日本とアジア
Articles on the increasing number of poor as people slip through the social safety net, teachers opposing the forced singing of Kimigayo, nationalism and militarism, Okinawa, Japan and US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Japanese death penalty, Comfort Women, North Korea,
WORLD/ 世界
The American Psychological Associations's defense of torture. Palestine and Israel, 9-11 (1973), Iraq and Afganstan, the U.S as a terrorist power, global warming, escalating threats to attack Iran., cosmetic surgery and suicide, the gay rights movement after same-sex marriage, Harold Pinter on U.S. atrocities, the Tsunami in South East Asia, lax meat slaughtering procedures and Mad Cow, U.S helicopter crash at an Okinawan university