Diamond Princess Puts Japan Under the Microscope
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the first half of February 2020.
Tag Archives: Article 9 of the Constitution
Document: Political Mission of the Japan Communist Party
Whereas most Japanese political parties, whether the ruling conservatives or the mainstream opposition, effectively have little in the way of fixed party policies, the Japan Communist Party, the nation’s oldest political party, is very different, taking its own platforms very seriously.
Bread & Roses: How Nakasone Crushed Japan’s Labor Movement
Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister from 1982 to 1987 and died this past November 29, broke the back of Japan’s labor movement.
South Korea Pressured on Japan Military Information Pact
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the first half of November 2019.
Ruling Coalition Loses Supermajority
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the second half of July 2019.
Osaka Headed to Second Referendum
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on May 12, 2019.
The Reiwa Era Begins
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on May 5, 2019.
US State Department Highlights Japan Human Rights Problems
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 21, 2019.
Most Japanese No Longer See United States As Friend
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 19, 2018.
The Campaign to Overwrite the Comfort Women Past
In 1993, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono made the most full-throated admission and apology acknowledging that Japan had coerced women across Asia into being sex slaves—euphemistically referred to as “Comfort Women”—for the Japanese military during the Pacific War. More recently, however, conservative politicians such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura have engaged in a campaign that is less about carving out a path toward reconciliation than to overwrite memories of an unsavory past.
