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3332	Melody Kemp	The Other Deadly White Dust: Russia, China, India and the Campaign to Ban Asbestos　　もう一つの白粉末——ロシア、中国、インドとアスベスト禁止運動 Read More
3334	Laura Hein, Nobuko TANAKA	Brushing with Authority: The Life and Art of Tomiyama Taeko　　威厳ある絵筆による権力との抵触——富山妙子の人生と芸術 Read More
3323	Jamie Doucette, Robert Prey	Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea　　移住者とミンジュン（民衆）のはざまで−−韓国における移住者の文化的政治運動の変貌 Read More
3324	Neal S. Parikh	Migrant Health in Japan: Safety-Net Policies and Advocates' Policy Solutions　　日本における移民の健康−−安全策と擁護側の解決策 Read More
3313	Mark Selden, Kim Dong-choon	South Korea's Embattled Truth and Reconciliation Commission 　困難に直面する韓国真実和解委員会 Read More
3307	Ruediger Frank	Money in Socialist Economies: The Case of North Korea　社会主義経済における貨幣−−北朝鮮の場合 Read More
3289	Paul A. Kramer	International Students and U.S. Global Power in the Long 20th Century　２０世紀を中心に見た留学生と米国の世界的勢力 Read More
3279	David H. Slater	The Making of Japan's New Working Class: “Freeters” and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market 日本の新しい労働者階級の形成−−フリーターおよび中学から労働市場への参入 Read More
3199	Chika Shinohara, Christopher Uggen	Sexual Harassment: The Emergence of Legal Consciousness in Japan and the US Read More
3182	Erin Murphy	Women's Anti-Imperialism, 'The White Man's Burden,' and the Philippine-American War Read More
3148	Terese Svoboda	U.S. Courts-Martial in Occupation Japan: Rape, Race, and Censorship Read More
3083	David McNeill	Justice for Some. Crime, Victims and the US-Japan SOFA Read More
3062	Miyume TANJI	Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan Read More
3064	Larissa Hjorth	Imaging Communities: Gendered Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific Read More
3019	Katharine H.S. Moon	Military Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia Read More
2972	Philip Seaton	The G8 Summit as "Local Event" in the Hokkaido Media Read More
2951	Andre Vltchek	The Cook Islands and the Pacific Island Nations: Will the Last Person Leaving Please Turn Off the Lights? Read More
2942	Hiroaki SATO	Personal Predilection in Compiling and Translating an Anthology of Japanese Women Poets Read More
2862	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empire Read More
2792	Laura Hein	The Cultural Career of the Japanese Economy: Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in Historical Perspective Read More
2788	Andre Vltchek	Samoa: One Nation, Two Failed States Read More
2776	Sonia Ryang	The Denationalized Have No Class: The Banishment of Japan's Korean Minority-- A POLEMIC Read More
2770	Andre Vltchek	Paradise Lost. Logging and the Environmental and Social Destruction of the Solomon Islands Read More
2762	Takeyuki Tsuda	Local Citizenship and Foreign Workers in Japan Read More
2763	Donald M. Seekins	The Social, Political and Humanitarian Impact of Burma's Cyclone Nargis Read More
2751	Okabe Itsuko, Greg Vanderbilt	From a Woman Aggressor. Reflections on Japan and the Asia Pacific War Read More
2737	Terese Svoboda	Race and American Military Justice: Rape, Murder, and Execution in Occupied Japan Read More
2732	Ishimure Michiko	Reborn from the Earth Scarred by Modernity: Minamata Disease and the Miracle of the Human Desire to Live Read More
2717	Andre Vltchek	The New Face of Indonesia's Islamic Fundamentalism: Pornography Ban Ignores the Starving Read More
2710	M Kawazoe	Action Against Poverty: Japan's Working Poor Under Attack Read More

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88	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Ban Ki-moon's Visit to Chernobyl　　潘基文のチェルノブイリ訪問 Read More
89		Fukushima Burning: Anatomy of a Nuclear Disaster　　福島炎上−−核災害の構造 •Japanese text available. Updated Read More
90	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Resign now, Prime Minister Kan　　菅首相、貴方は、即刻、首相を辞任すべきです Read More
91	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Learning From Japan's Nuclear Disaster　　日本の核災害から学ぶ Read More
92		Worldwide Responses to the 20 Millisievert Controversy　　20ミリシーベルト論争への世界的反響 Read More
94		Songs for Fukushima　　福島のための歌数曲 Read More
96	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Alternatives to the IAEA: Greenpeace and Japanese Municipalities Measure Radiation　　国際原子力機関に替わる手段−−グリーンピースと地方自治体、放射線を計量 Read More
97	Matthew Penney	Okinawa’s Fukushima Connection: Nuclear Workers at Risk　　沖縄の福島とのつながり−−原発作業員no Read More
98	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	74% of Japanese Favor Nuclear Phase-out 　　日本人の７４％が原子力廃止に賛成 Read More
99	Cara O'Connell	Feeling the Heat in Fukushima　　福島第一原発、高温での作業 Read More
100	Matthew Penney	Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation　　原発作業員と福島住民のさらされる危険−−ガン専門家の福島観 Read More
101	Andrew DeWit	Japan's Richest Man Challenges Nuclear Future　　日本第一の億万長者、核の将来を問題視 Read More
102	Matthew Penney	The Voices of Ten Million: Anti-Nuclear Petition Movement Launched in Japan　　千万人の声−−反原子力陳情運動、日本で始まる Read More
103	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	A Solar Future? Prospects, Problems, and Japan’s Solar Energy Plans　　太陽熱による将来？期待、問題、および日本の太陽エネルギー計画 Read More
105	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	US Nuclear Technology as a Cure for Japanese Ignorance?　日本人への療法としての米国核技術 Read More
106	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Tokyo Shimbun's Devastating Critique of Fukushima Compensation Bill　　東京新聞社説「東電賠償案株主責任はどうする」 Read More
107	David McNeill	A young man sacrificing his future to shut down Fukushima　　福島第一廃炉化のために自分の将来を犠牲にする若い男 Read More
108	John Eperjesi	Jeju: From peace island to war island　　済州島−−平和の島から戦争の島へ Read More
109	Pio d'Emilia	Dispatches from the No-Go Zone　　立ち入り禁止地帯からの特報 Read More
110	Greg Mitchell	From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Uninhabitable Due to Radiation　　ヒロシマからフクシマ−−日本政府、放射線による居住不可能の広域設定発表へ Read More
112	Matthew Penney	Contamination Outside Fukushima　　福島の範囲を超える汚染 Read More
113	Koide Hiroaki	Japanese Radiation Expert Koide on Fukushima Dangers　原子核物理学専門家小出裕章、福島の危険を語る　 Read More
114	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	What are the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown? Japanese Press Assessments　　福島原発炉心溶融のもたらす結果は？−−日本の諸新聞記事による評価 Read More
115	Hase Michiko	“We want genpatsu in Tokyo!” – The new sarcastic edge of Japan’s anti-nuclear demos　　「東京に原発を！」−−日本の反原発デモに見える新たな風刺性 Read More
116	David McNeill	Blood Money - Fukushima Victims Bitter Over Compensation　　涙金−−補償額を不服とする福島の犠牲者たち Read More
117	David H. Slater	Fukushima women against nuclear power: finding a voice from Tohoku　　福島の女性対原子力発電−−東北からの声 Read More
118	William Underwood	Overseas Hibakusha Lawsuit: Lee Keun-mok's Legacy　　在外被爆者訴訟：三菱徴用工判決から４年　元原告の李さん死去、その足跡 Read More
119	Andrew DeWit	Japan’s Nuclear Village Wages War on Renewable Energy and the Feed-in Tariff　　日本の原発村、再生可能エネルギーと固定価格買取り制度に対し戦闘へ Read More
120	Hirose Takashi	Farewell to Nuclear Power – A Lecture on Fukushima　　原発を即時廃炉に Read More
121	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Japan Nuclear Safety Agency: Radioactive Water Leaks to the Ocean 'Zero' 　　保安院　海への汚染水、ゼロ扱い　「緊急」で法適用外 Read More