https://www.japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/3173 Yoshiko NOZAKI and Mark Selden Japan’s neonationalists have launched three major attacks on school textbooks over the past half century.1 Centered on the treatment of colonialism and war, the attacks surfaced in 1955, the late 1970s, and the mid-1990s. The present study examines three moments in light of Japanese … [Read more...] about Japanese Textbook Controversies, Nationalism, and Historical Memory: Intra- and Inter-national Conflicts (Japan Focus)
Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children (Japan Focus)
Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children David McNeill, Matsutani Minoru, Alex Martin, Kamiya Setsuko, and Hongo Jun Introduction Two decades ago, as Japan’s economic engine hurtled along at full throttle, the Justice Ministry announced a policy that seemed to signal an end to its attempt to keep the world at … [Read more...] about Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children (Japan Focus)
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)
U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issueshttps://www.japanfocus.org/-Lawrence-Repeta/3147Lawrence RepetaIntroductionHow can Japan move toward gender equality, the elimination of authoritarian police practices and realization of the human rights enshrined in its laws and treaty obligations? Many Japanese human rights … [Read more...] about U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues (Japan Focus)
Recent Israel, Iran, Iraq, Wall Street, and more: from Information Clearing House, ZNET, and other sources
As news comes in with various takes on the legitimacy of the presidential vote in Iran, not much is cleaer except one thing: the hypocrisy of western news media and government offcials who downplay, ignore or criminalize dissent in their own, supposedly democratic country but are its most vociferous defenders when the perpertrators are the so-called "rogue states". Here are … [Read more...] about Recent Israel, Iran, Iraq, Wall Street, and more: from Information Clearing House, ZNET, and other sources
Criminal acts by police go unpunished; Ishihara promotes corporal punishment
This letter was not published by the Japan Times, so I am uploading it here.While it is heartening to read that DNA evidence finally resulted in an exoneration for Toshikazu Sugaya, it is an outrage that a man presumably forced to confess by overzealous officials merited only an indirect apology from the Supreme Prosecutor's Office (June 11: Freed Lifer: apology is no … [Read more...] about Criminal acts by police go unpunished; Ishihara promotes corporal punishment