All of the below are here:https://www.zmag.org/asiawatch/japan_focus.htmAbout Japan FocusKeiichi Tsuneishi, Disposing of Japan's World War II Poison Gas in China (Nov. 10, 2003)Hiratate Hideaki, Teacher Suicides and the Future of Japanese Education (Nov. 4, 2003)Asahi Shimbun, Article 9, Iraq and Revision of the Japanese Constitution (Nov. 4, 2003)Yoshida … [Read more...] about -Recent Japan articles in English
-Thousands Try to Stop Nuclear Train
A convoy of highly radioactive nuclear waste started the last and trickiest stage of its journey by rail to a German dump, as thousands of protesters plotted to disrupt the transport.Anti-nuclear campaigners dragged police into running confrontations as the train rumbled slowly from Lueneburg to Dannenberg in northern Germany.Full … [Read more...] about -Thousands Try to Stop Nuclear Train
-London Plans to protest bush, Bush Seeks to Stop Protests
LONDON - President Bush may be subjected to the humiliating sight of an effigy of himself being dragged to the ground by anti-war protesters in London's Trafalgar Square next week.But if police and White House officials have their way, the president, who had the staunch support of Britain's Prime Minister during the Iraq war, will be spared the embarrassment of seeing a … [Read more...] about -London Plans to protest bush, Bush Seeks to Stop Protests
-You can fool some people sometimes… Fighting Neo Liberalism in Germany
By Andrea NollHurrah - we’re export champion again! Germany is the largest export nation in the world - larger than the U.S., larger than Japan. We’re the greatest! And at the same time we cut old people’s pensions and blow our social security systems to kingdom come.October 17th was a big day for the dismantlers of the German welfare state. They won their crucial vote in … [Read more...] about -You can fool some people sometimes… Fighting Neo Liberalism in Germany
-The Ishihara Statement and the 1930s:Japan’s National Psyche Adrift
by Yoshida TsukasaTranslation for Japan Focus by Richard Minear and Michael Molasky[Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro, and a man widely considered a leading candidate to succeed Koizumi as Prime Minister, is notorious for shooting from the hip, that is for making inflammatory and racist statements. Perhaps none so resonated with the logic of assassination that marked 1930s … [Read more...] about -The Ishihara Statement and the 1930s:Japan’s National Psyche Adrift