...Hiroaki Sato Culturally and traditionally, there have been, and are, considerable differences between Japan and Western countries. At the same time, from the start of its history Japan has always sought and adopted foreign institutions, manners, and customs, as appropriate, while creating...

...Chelsea Szendi Schieder Chelsea Szendi Schieder, a political scientist at Tokyo’s Meiji University, describes how, in the wake of Japan’s triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown), the country has moved to fortify national harmony and women’s place in the traditional family unit...

...Masaru Tamamoto Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 REFLECTIONS Masaru Tamamoto is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. He writes on Japanese national identity and international relations, and resides in Japan. Japan and Its Discontents A Letter...

... and do not reflect those of the U.S. government. Will the Real Japan Please Stand Up John H. Miller Contemporary Japan presents something of were expected to die rather than accept dis­ a “black box”: although changes are clearly grace. When their emperor called on them afoot...

...Masaru Tamamoto Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 Masaru Tamamoto is editor o/JIIA Commentary, an online journal of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo (www.jiia.or.jp/en and a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. How Japan Imagines China and Sees...

...Eri Hotta Historian Eri Hotta shows how throughout Japan’s history, leaders have used a rhetoric of peace to justify aggression and imperialism. Peace is an apparition, Hotta argues, that needs to be challenged if the country is to come to terms with its wartime past and confront the virulent...

... on Japanese political reform. The Failure of Japan’s Political Reform Ko Mishima In Japan, a revealing political drama unfold­ likely rebel. Thirty years ago, he won elec­ ed this past summer. Its featured star was tion for the first time by inheriting his par­ the charismatic prime...

... World Policy Journal visits prison cells in the U.S., Nicaragua, Norway, and Japan. ANATOMY THE WORLD BEHIND BARS World Policy Journal visits prison cells in the U.S., Nicaragua, Norway, and Japan. HOLMAN CORRECTIONAL LA MODELO...

... M asaru Tamamoto Junichiro Koizumi, in office only since great gamble in backing Koizumi. Still, it is April, is by far Japan’s most popular prime far from clear how a people so used to egali­ minister in more than one hundred years of tarian harmony will go in enduring what...

...Paul Sullivan The future may appear a bit complex and bleak right now, but do not underestimate the Japanese. These are a resilient, even an anti-fragile people, who have come back from disasters many times before. The greatest source of and reason for hope for Japan has been its people...

...- the United States for more than 50 years— fitting clothes. The retrenchment could not so much so that most Americans will find it be repeated after World War II; once Ger­ hard to imagine a world without them. But many and Japan were defeated, our erst­ such a world is coming, and as with all big while...

... candidates are India, Japan, nations should be given veto powers. No Brazil, Germany, Egypt, and either Nigeria single proposal has ever won majority sup­ or South Africa— as well as three new two- port. As a result, the Security Council con­ year-term nonpermanent members. Option tinues to reflect...

... was with the industri­ Taiwan, and South Korea all experienced alized democracies, especially the United varying degrees of economic stagnation.3 States, its security guarantor, and Japan, Given the growing intra-Asian trade then by far the dominant economic actor in linkages, weak central bank regulation, inef­...

...). This article is based on a year-long investigation that has taken him to Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Gas and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia Pipelines, Regional Stability, and the Korean Nuclear Crisis Selig S. Harrison The enormous potential of East...

.... And though geographically in the heart of Europe, it’s not even a member of the European Union or the eurozone. Every other EU nation is growing at less than 1 percent. Indeed Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Lithuania, and Latvia are actually shrinking in population, which puts them alongside Japan, in the same...

... to realize our ideas. WPJ: So basically Japan has some extraordinary people like you who are great scientists and inventors, developers of new and great techniques, and China can take those and develop them for the world more effectively on a massive scale. Are you happy that Japan is taking this kind...

... will be published next year. Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom When Chinese students marched against made Tiananmen Square a household word Japan in Beijing this April, their demon­ and a familiar sight on television news...