Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity
Dual nationality is the predicament or privilege of most of the growing population called haafu. With their contributions to society they are expanding what it means to be Japanese.
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Resignation of Osaka Governor and Mayor
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 11, 2019.
Japan Times Goes Rightwing
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 30, 2018.
The Fall of Carlos Ghosn
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 25, 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.
Okinawa Double Election Set for September 30
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on August 19, 2018.
China Overtakes Japan as UN Contributor
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on August 15, 2018.
Abe Wants North Korea to Surrender Before Talks Begin
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 25, 2018.
Japan Getting Away with Murder
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on February 13, 2018.
Henoko: A Needless Military Base
Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa, must close—on that much everyone agrees. But the insistence by the United States and the Japanese central government on building a replacement facility in another part of Okinawa is bitterly opposed by Okinawa’s people and prefectural government.
