Examines Japan's rising crime rate, as well as various misconceptions about it.

Documents how after women started speaking out, some men now fear false accusations of groping women on trains. Explores Japan's legal system and culture of losing face.

Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century.

An essay addressing how Japan has responded and changed through the War on Terror.

Young Japanese civilians taken hostage and nearly killed in Iraq return home to be treated like criminals.

Investigation on the stationing of nuclear weapons in Japan on US military bases and vessels, violating Japan's stand to be a nuclear weapon free nation.

Essay on the growing friction in the Japanese government's directives to use wartime nationalist symbols to bolster student patriotism, and their possible connotations and effects.

An article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, analyzing Japanese gun control laws and history of firearms in Japan.

Editorial giving a warning that there is a current radicalization of an otherwise stable and healthy Japanese nationalism, and it could cause strong friction in the future. [Free registration required].

Article documenting how Japan's quality of life rates compared to other countries, through factors including infant mortality, health care, education, and labor conditions.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government outlaws the trade in soiled knickers from the underaged, but some school girls see another opportunity arise.

Looks at the ideological tools that maintain the idea of Japan as a mono-cultural, homogeneous society and investigates multiculturalism and internationalization in Japan.

Documents a close encounter with hard Japanese nationalism.

Two short essays on Japanese construction, including the corruption among Japanese corporations and obstruction of US firms resulting in the fleecing of American taxpayers.

Study concluding that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes.

Examines several characteristics of modern farming in Japan along with changing situations, trends, and its economic future.

Personal musings about how the Japanese identify themselves.

Editorial on the nation's deep-seated reluctance to open the labor market wider to foreigners.

Article on shady bait-and-switch tactics used to force Southeast Asian women into prostitution in Japan's 2.37 trillion yen a year entertainment industry.

Proposes opening up Japan to more third world immigrants to solve its population crisis.

Examines the Japanese characteristic of "nihonjinron", a kind of ethnic nationalism.

Examines a few social characteristics of Japanese.

Article on train cars in Tokyo for women only to address the growing problem of men groping women commuters.