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日本・アジア・世界の独立メディア
Some useful alternative media sites in Japan.
Finding information in Japanese and English.  Use keywords like the following:

(1) homeless -or- ホームレス  (2) Genetically modified food, GMO or 遺伝子組換え作物、etc.


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Sex Slave issue and NHK


Global Article 9 Campaign

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Ehime Maru Incident
Ehime Maru, Arrogance and Apologies

An article by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post has caused quite a commotion.
The article, viewable is NOT available online anymore without paying the Washington Post for it. luckily other people have saved copies of it:  Here    Here is an overly intercultual analysis  (which ignores the fact that it is not only Japanese who found the incident ugly). Here is a non Japanese critique of the empty apology whcih gives the lie to the notion that the main problem is a cultural misunderstanding.

Various issues including ATARASHII LEKUSHI WO TSUKURUKAI (revisionist textbook)
Japanese Text Denies Truth

Hinomaru/Kimigayo

Japan: History (Nanking) by Phillip Cunningham

Human rights and war/人権..戦争

Ehime Maru by Paul Arenson
Ehime Maru and Washington Post by Paul Arenson
Japan Times and its CIA Connection
Also mentioned in this piece I wrote after my hospitalization
See this newsletter for the role of CSIS (CIA) in East Timor (scroll down to Issue 39)
9/11, Iraq, Good and Evil, Drums of War and a Call for Sanity From CPN #140 The death of a fish and 9/11 September 15, 2002
Special Issue: Iraq Bombing--David McReynolds. Also: Japan and the U.S. Military, Japan Times Coverage
Rearming Japan
Japan and Missile Defense
World Trade Center and Japan
Japanese Constitution
Koizumi and U.S.
Koizumi Spits on Graves of Hibakusha
Tiananmen and Nanking: Selective Amnesia
Howard Zinn on Holocausts and Responsiblity (indirect relation to Japan)
Okinawa and U.S. Bases
Okinawa, Bases, Dugongs
NHK Censors War Crime Tribunal Story
Yasukuni Shine
Japan/US Defense
Citizen Peace Coalition
Women Against Violence in War
Problems of US Military in Okinawa (pdf)
Women & War
Korean Comfort Women - Silence Broken Foundation

Global Article 9 Japanese website
http://www.article-9.org/jp/index.html


Resolution 1325 Japanese translation

Resolution 1325 website
history, background, translations - from Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Hague Appeal for Peace
The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of organizations and individuals dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. The Global Campaign for Peace Education was launched at the Hague Appeal for Peace conference in May 1999. After the conference, Hague Appeal for Peace took the responsibility of coordinating the Campaign.