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3677	Hiroshi Onitsuka	Hooked on Nuclear Power: Japanese State-Local Relations and the Vicious Cycle of Nuclear Dependence 原子力に繋ぎとめられて−−国対地方の関係と原子力依存の悪循環 Read More
3673	Gavan McCormack, Sakurai Kunitoshi, Urashima Etsuko	Okinawa, New Year 2012: Tokyo’s Year End Surprise Attack　　未明の「奇襲」、評価書「置き去り」　 Read More
3671	Tom Gill	Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men　　日本都市部路傍に男を下げて−−ホームレス男性にとって自助の意味とは Read More
3668	Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong	Gilded Outside, Shoddy Within:The Human Rights Watch report on Chinese copper mining in Zambia　　表面は金ぴか、内実は粗悪−−ザンビアにおける中国の銅山についてのＨＲＷ報告 Read More
3644	tammy ko Robinson	South Korea’s 300 Day Aerial Sit-in Strike Highlights Plight of Precarious Workers in Korea and the Philippines　　韓国の３００日間空中坐り込みストライキ、コリアとフィリピンの労働者の苦境を浮かび上がらせる　 Read More
3645	Andrew DeWit	Fallout From the Fukushima Shock: Japan’s Emerging Energy Policy　　フクシマ衝撃の余波−−今後の日本のエネルギー政策 Read More
3648	Sachie MIZOHATA	Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, Democratic Governance and Japan’s Fukushima Disaster アマルティア・センのケイパビリティ・アプローチ、民主政と福島の大惨事 Read More
3651	Satoko NORIMATSU	Fukushima and Okinawa – the “Abandoned People,” and Civic Empowerment　　福島と沖縄−−「棄民」、および市民の力 Read More
3625	Philip Brasor	Gender, Equity and the Japanese Welfare System　　ジェンダー、公正、日本の福祉制度 Read More
3622	Yoshio SHIMOJI	Futenma: Tip of the Iceberg in Okinawa’s Agony　　普天間−−沖縄の苦悶の氷山の一角 Read More
3599	Fujioka Atsushi	Understanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere •Japanese original text is available　　福島で進行中の核の大惨事をどう見るか　−−「双頭の天龍」を地球生命圏に降下させた危険を見据えよう Read More
3592	Sergey Radchenko	Japanese Business, Soviet Development, and Territorial Conflict, 1975-1985　　日本の企業、ソヴィエトの発展、領土確執、１９７５−１９８５年 Read More
3583	Oguma Eiji	The Hidden Face of Disaster: 3.11, the Historical Structure and Future of Japan’s Northeast　　東北と戦後日本――近代日本を超える構想力の必要性 •Japanese text available Read More
3588	Winifred Bird, Elizabeth Grossman	Chemical Contamination, Cleanup and Longterm Consequences of Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami　　日本の地震と津波、化学汚染・除染・長期的結果 Read More
3546	Sakai Yasuyuki	Japan’s Decline as a Robotics Superpower: Lessons From Fukushima 　ロボット大国としての日本の衰退−−フクシマからの教訓 Read More
3537	Peter Bosshard	Will Fukushima Make China Reconsider Its Hydropower Boom?　　フクシマを機に中国はその水力発電ブームを再考するだろうか Read More
3529	Philip Hirsch	China and the Cascading Geopolitics of Lower Mekong Dams　　中国とメコン川下流ダム地政学的奔流 Read More
3515	David McNeill	Back from the Brink: A city in ruins looks to the future　　危機よりの復帰−−廃虚化した一都市、未来に目を向ける Read More
3516	Makiko Segawa	Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, TEPCO and Government. Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone　　福島県民、マスコミ・東京電力・政府からの交錯する信号の中で答を模索−−自主避難要請区域よりの報告 Read More
3514	Onuki Satoko	Former Fukushima Governor Sato Eisaku Blasts METI –TEPCO Alliance: “Government must accept responsibility for defrauding the people” 　　佐藤栄佐久・前福島県知事が告発　「国民を欺いた国の責任をただせ」 Read More
3508	Kaneko Masaru	The Plan to Rebuild Japan: When You Can't Go Back, You Move Forward. Outline of an Environmental Sound Energy Policy　　日本再建の計画−−後戻りできない時は前へ。環境的で健全なエネルギー政策のあらまし Read More
3510	David McNeill	Communities Struggle to Rebuild Shattered Lives on Japan's Coast　　破壊された生活を建直そうと苦闘する日本沿岸の地域社会 Read More
3488	Herbert P. Bix	The Middle East Revolutions in Historical Perspective: Egypt, Occupied Palestine, and the United States　　歴史的視点から見た中東の革命−−エジプト、被占領国パレスティナ、米国 Read More
3490	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls　　日本国境守備−−占領、朝鮮戦争、境界地域の支配 Read More
3480	Mark Selden, Wu Jieh-min	The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs　　中国国家、不完全なプロレタリア化、二つの時期における不平等の構造 Read More
3483	Geoffrey Gunn	The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited　　1944−45年ヴィエトナム大飢饉再訪 Read More
3419	Yoshio Sugimoto	Class and Work in Cultural Capitalism: Japanese Trends　　文化資本主義における階級と労働−−日本の潮流 Read More
3417	Andrew DeWit, Elliot Brownlee	Revisiting Postwar Taxation in Japan and its Contemporary Implications　　戦後日本税制の再検討とその今日的意味合い Read More
3408	Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun	Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State　　若手出稼ぎ中国人の抗議自殺−−フォックスコン、グローバル資本、国家 Read More
3410	Nobuko Adachi	Ethnic Identity, Culture, and Race: Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad　　民族、文化、人種−−本土及び海外の日本人と日系日本人 Read More

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56	R Taggart Murphy	Assessing the Economic Aftershocks of Japan’s March 11 Earthquake　　日本の3.11地震の経済的余波を評価する Read More
57		Fukushima: The Situation on the Ground 　福島ーー現地の状況 Read More
58	Lawrence S. Wittner	How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety": The Politics of Denial Read More
59		“Long Since Passed the Level of Three Mile Island” – The Fukushima Crisis in Comparative Perspective Read More
60	David McNeill	In the Shadow of Japan’s Wounded Nuclear Beast Read More
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71	Lawrence S. Wittner	『核の安全』を日本はどのように学び覚えたのか――否認の政治 Read More
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73	Matthew Penney	Unease or Untruth? – The Removal of Nakamura Koichiro Read More
74	Matthew Penney	"Science" and "Nature" on Fukushima Read More
75	David McNeill	Why I love Japan even more since the earthquake Read More
76	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Japanese Energy Options After Fukushima Read More
77	R Taggart Murphy	3/11 and Japan: A Hinge of History? Read More
78	R Taggart Murphy	３月１１日の地震の経済的余震の影響を見極める Read More
79	David McNeill	Sato Eisaku's Warning Read More
80	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Okinawan Appeal to US Senate Read More
81	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Save the Children: Radiation Exposure of Fukushima Students Read More
82	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Another Appeal from Okinawa Read More
83	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	20 Millisieverts for Children and Kosako Toshiso’s Resignation Read More
84	David McNeill	Japan’s government faces looming crisis over ‘whack-a-mole’ nuclear policies Read More
85	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Nuclear Energy and Risk Read More
86	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Protests: The 20 Millisievert Decision and the Future of Atomic Energy in Japan Read More
87	David McNeill	‘We’ve no idea when we’ll be back’ Read More