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News and opinion in Japan (E and J)

JAN JAN :  市民記者によるネットニュースサイト

 反戦翻訳団-Antiwar Translation Brigade- :  主として反戦運動にかかわる海外記事の翻訳紹介

 Japan Focus contains articles on modern and contemporary Japanese politics, economics and society, Japan in the world, and war and peace in the Asia Pacific

課題別リンク 集  and  50 音順リンク集:
例えば 高齢者, 農業および食糧問題, 動物保護,チャレンジド、
バリアフリー, 子ども,市民のイニシアティブ, コンピュータとインターネット
, 消費者, ディープエコロジ

田中宇の国際ニュース解説

Nikkan Berita
 「日刊ベリタ」

Many links in Japan and Asia
Buraku,  Ishihara Shintaro, Ehime Maru, などなど

Japan: Third World, Environment,  Peace, Health
World: Fair Trade,  Media, Labor, Globalization
By Darrel Moen

Debito.org
Human rights in Japan

Ohara Institute for Social Research  /  大原社会問題研究所

ASIA MEDIA FORUM

INTER PRESS-ASIA

アムネスティ・ニュースリリー ス

 IMC Japan:
IMC(インディメディア)ジャパン
 ニュー ズワイア
Indymedia Japan is news 'by' 'for' and 'of' the people.

 Ken Masuoka News Translations 
(益岡賢のページ)

 Kyoto Journal,

 大原社会問題研究所

Yosha Reseach (minorities, etc.)

Sekai

Shuukan Kinyoubi

New Internationalist Japan
-バックナンバー
-Langauge learners.
-Teacher's Page
-Link section


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Media issues in Japan
ABOUT the media

What is Alternative Media
By Paul Arenson

Asano KenIchi's page
Well known journalist and professor
One of the links on his page is this, about the 'criminal activity' of Bush and
Koizumi in Iraq:
「イラク国際戦犯民衆法廷」 ICTI (The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq)

Japanese media and Iraq
Asano article

What is wrong with the Japanese media
Another by Asano



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Media issues in general

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Well-known US site

Media Lens
Correcting for the distortrd lens of the corporate media

Who owns the media?

Who owns it (2)


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VIDEO


Democracy Now
One of the most popular alternative media news shows. Every day, with Amy Goodman

Freespeech TV


TokyoProgressive Video News


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News debates and resources
Articles on issues in Japan such as Mad Cow, the Environment,
Nuclear Power, NHK problems, China...etc.



BUY NOTHING DAY/無買日

アド バスターズ

Economic Justice
  オックスファム/Oxfam :オックスファムは、世界100ヶ国以上で貧困を克服しようとする人々を支援し、貧困を生み出す状況を変えるために活動する民間の国際協力団体です。長年 に渡る実績が評価され1992年と2005年 .
Oxfam believes that in a world rich in resources, poverty isn’t a fact of life but an injustice which must be overcome. We believe that everyone is entitled to a life of dignity and opportunity, and we work with poor communities, local partner organisations, volunteers and supporters to make this a reality. Oxfam’s goal is a world where every person is safe, healthy, secure, skilled, heard, and equal..



Environment/Whaling

An issue that demands clarification. The issue of whaling in the media is presented as one of culture or country vs. other.  But it  is not that simple. If the Japanese government cares about small coastal  whalers, why does it also promote giant factory whale fleets?  And why  does it not offer the same protection to Japanese rice against foreign imports?  If the U.S.  opposes whaling, as does Greenpeace (including Greenpeace Japan), why  does the U.S. oppose Greenpeace on almost every other environmental  issue?  And why does the world’s media treat Japanese whaling as if it  was more barbarous than the treatment by all countries of livestock? Why too does the Japanese media say it is a cultural issue when the  Scandinavian countries share almost the same culture yet have different  views on whaling?  And wasn’t the US also a whlaing nation until fairly recently, historically speaking? Here are two groups with essentially Japanese members.  Please send other links from all sides of the issue to us:  グリーン ピース ジャパンイルカ&クジラ・アクションネットワーク

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International Green Network Japan


Environment/Nuclear Power
Tokaimura accident
Hamaoka plant safety

Environment/Water
Maude Barlow in Japan
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Education
Tsukurukai textbook issue


Food/Mad Cow
A university student of ours reports on Japanese government instigated censorship.
Food/Genetically Modified Organisms and Japan


HIV/AIDS
Japan Network


Japan and the World

加藤哲郎のネチズ ン・カレッジ


Justice
アムネスティ・インタナショナル・ジャパン/Amnesty International Japan :  International human rights NGO, Japanese Site. 世界人権宣言が守られる社会 の実現をめざし、世界中の人権侵害をなくすため, 国境を越えて声を上げ続けて いる国際的な市民運動です。

Debito.org
Massive site on justice issues related to Japan.日本語のペイジもあります。



Police Corruption in Japan

Labor
レイバー ネット日本 :  インターネットを活用し、日本の労働運動を紹介し、 海外の労働者のたたかいを日本に紹介。労働運動の発展を願うサイトです。 Nambu, Foreign Workers Caucus.


Palestine/Israel

パレスチナ情報センター/Palestine Information Center :  日本語で読めるパレスチナ情報を網羅。


Peace and War
ゆらゆら/戦争抵抗者の会 :  「海外派兵をやめろ!戦争抵抗者の会」の運営するウェブサイト。首都圏で日本の海外派兵・戦争参加に反対して活動している諸個人の集まりです。

China and Japan, Nanjing and Tienanmen: Selective Amnesia

Sex Slave issue and NHK

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Better than CNN
Alternative media outside Japan


The New Standard
TNS strives for accountability and fairness, and to uphold rigorous rules for sourcing, transparency and ethics.

Project Censored
Un-reported and underreported news from around the world/. They also publish a list of mainstream and non-mainstream sources

Common Dreams and ZNet  both publish news and commentary on the important world issues; 

 Democratic Media Index

 Media Channel




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Creative/Education

Gender Awareness, Poetry and songs....

Teaching Critical media
Some links may not work

The Radical Psychology Network
We challenge psychology's traditional focus on minor reform, because enhancing human welfare demands fundamental social change instead. Moreover, psychology itself has too often oppressed people rather than liberated them.

Alfie Kohn
The negatives of competition in the classroom


Wise Hat (Japan)
First, and perhaps foremost we support co-operative learning. The games and activities in these pages, and the material we sell are designed to be used non-competitively... We all still working things out, we are experimenting, but our aim is clear. We are going to initiate a giving economy...You can help create a giving economy too. Like ripples in water, giving can spread. If you use our products, if you like our ideas, send us some energy so we can keep on creating them. But send some energy elsewhere too. I'm not talking about faceless charity contributions but genuine giving. Give some energy to someone you meet or know. It can be money but it doesn't need to be. Give a gift, give time, give a little living.

And the fear will go.
And love will take it's place.


Dechooling Society
Ivan Illich became well known in 1970, when he published Deschooling Society which argued that the top-down management of schools makes students powerless - and that the same top-down management is typical of the modern, technological economy that prevents people from learning. Tools for Conviviality made the same criticism of technology generally. Along with Energy and Equity, this book made Ivan Illich one of the most important theorists of the radical ecology movement of the 1970s.

Paul  Goodman
Paul Goodman became one of the most influential social critics of the 1960s after he published Growing Up Absurd, which looked at the problems of youth in the "organized system" of modern American society. He wrote on many subjects, criticizing the failings of our organized technological society, and making practical proposals to create a modern society on the human scale.

Radical Teaching
Honest teaching that respectfully helps us to unlearn the lies that support systematic oppression, including the lie of our own powerlessness.

Radical Teacher
a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching

Rethinking Schools

Friere on Educational  "Banking"

People's History of the U.S.

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Gender Awareness in Language Education

Women Educators and Language Learners




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