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JAPANESE NATIONALISM LINKS SHINTARO ISHIHARA, MAYOR OF
TOKYO JAPANESE Governor's Homepage Governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro's official public website.Ishihara Resource Center A collection of links
relating to Ishihara..
Support group based in
Kyushu for making Ishihara Prime Minister in Japan.
Ishihara’s personal
website.
ENGLISH GENERAL JAPANESE
POLITICS
ENGLISH Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Nippon Keidanren) An organization consisting of nearly 1500 Japanese big businesses. Know for being one of the most, if not the most, influential special interest group with the LDP. National Agricultural Federation (Zennoh) An organization that contains most of Japan's nearly 5 million farming housholds. Has heavy influence with the LDP and has probably played an instrumental role in developing Japan’s trade policies. The Power of Soka Gakkai This 1995 Time Magazine article explains how the religion known as Soka Gakkai (an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism) came to hold so much political power in Japan. Very relevant today, as Soka Gakkai’s political party, Komeito, is now part of a ruling coalition with the LDP. The Association of Shinto Shrines (Jinja Honcho) This is an organization of over 80,000 Shinto Shrines throughout Japan. They promote a link between Shinto and government and support other Shinto groups such as the Shinto-Government Association.
Mapping the Japanese Security Debate
JAPANESE Shinto-Government Association (Shinto Seiji Renmei) An organization that strives for Shinto affiliation in government. Supported by many LDP hawks.
The Association of Shinto Shrines (Jinja Honcho) Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Nippon Keidanren) An organization consisting of nearly 1500 Japanese big businesses. Know for being one of the most, if not the most, influential special interest group with the LDP. National Agricultural Federation (Zennoh) An organization that contains over 90% of Japan’s private farmers. Has heavy influence with the LDP and has probably played an instrumental role in developing Japan’s trade policies. The personal website of former prime minister and
leading LDP hawk, Hashimoto Ryutaro
HISTORY DEBATES ON JAPANESE
IMPERIALISM JAPANESE Japan Society for History Textbook Reform (Atarashi Rekishi Kyokasho wo Tsukuru Kai) This is the organization that has led the effort to change Japanese history text books, removing the accounts of Japanese war atrocities. ENGLISH Japan Society for History Textbook Reform (Atarashi Rekishi Kyokasho wo Tsukuru Kai) This is the organization that has led the effort to change Japanese history text books, removing the accounts of Japanese war atrocities. Fujioka Nobukatsu’s
opinion on history education.
Research paper about the
current issue of history textbooks.
From the University of
Indiana.
JAPANESE NATIONALISM TODAY JAPANESE Seinensha This is one of Japan’s more popular right-wing organizations. Issuikai This is probably the most popular and main-stream of Japan’s present-day right-wing organizations. They are affiliated with a number of nationalistic authors. The Revival of Nationalism and the Contents of its Ideology (Kokka Shugi no Fukkatsu to sono Ideorogi no Naiyo) Hanazaki Kouhei, a Hokkaido scholar, writes this pamphlet trying to explain Japan’s recent nationalistic trends. This is the
website for Gentosha Publishing House Web Magazine, which has frequent
features on comics by one of their best selling artists, Kobayashi
Yoshinori. In his two most popular series', Declaration of War (Sensou
Ron) and Washism, Kobayashi portrays a remilitarized Japan that feeds
nationalistic sentiment.
Contemporary forms of
Japanese nationalism and racism.
From the Japan Economic
Foundation.
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