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Japan described as running dog of U.S.
Korean News, 23 November 2001. Soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are reported to have begun performing guard duties inside the U.S. military bases in Japan. Rodong Sinmun says: This proves that Japan is a running dog of the U.S.
Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
By Eva Cheng, Green Left Weekly, [16 November 1995]. Under the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement, Japanese jurisdiction does not apply to members of the US forces until the suspects are charged. Case of US rapists avoiding being charged. The 4500 crimes committed by US servicemen.
Illogical argument
Korean News 26 February 1997. Japanese reactionaries are making efforts to keep up U.S. military bases in Japan. Their excuse of the Korean situation is an unreasonable and folish cover up. Actually, U.S. military bases in Japan are a factor straining the situation of the Korean Peninsula.
Use Resources to Ease Poverty, Tokyo Told
By Suvendrini Kakuchi, IPS, 19 October 1998. Experts are urging the government to make Japan's aid budget, the largest in the world, focus more on social services—rather economic development—especially in its two biggest aid recipients China and Indonesia.
Review of Iriye, Japan and the Wider World
Reviewed for H-Japan by David Tucker, Univeristy of Iowa, H-Asia list, 20 February 1999. Book begins in 1868 and ends about 1990. It includes a useful survey of English-language literature, has no notes, and says nothing about its sources. It is a work about the socio-intellectual framework of foreign relations. The dichotomy of Japan and its international environment.
Japan open to return of two disputed isles
The Japan Times, Monday 2 October 2000. The government is leaning closer to accepting a two-stage accord over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets off Hokkaido in which Russia would hand over two of them with assurances that the remaining two will also eventually be returned.
Insecure, exasperated and bored with the old politics: The American shogunate
By Chalmers Johnson, Le Monde diplomatique, March 2002. A central, unspoken aspect of the Japanese crisis: the influence of the United States on a society unable to set national objectives and define a political role commensurate with its economic weight.
It's time to overhaul the Japan-U.S. alliance
By Jitsuro Terashima, Asahi Shimbun, 30 May 2002. Looking back from the 50th anniversary of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, there have been landmark events in Japan's diplomcatic history and a vacuum in Washington's Asian policy/