Publications

JPRI publishes scholarly and journalistic works, in a variety of formats, on Japan and the Pacific Rim.

Working Papers

Critiques

Occasional Papers

Books

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The Limits of Calculation: Hiroshima Michael Walzer , , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia occasionalpapers usa churchill hiroshima turman world-war-ii
Okinawa Update: Japan Policy Research Institute Special Report JPRI Staff , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia okinawa usa sexual-assault us-air-force us-marin us-military us-navy
Assimilation Policy in Okinawa: Promotion, Resistance, and “Reconstruction” Steve Rabson , , asia-pacific china japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers okinawa pacific-war world-war-ii
Paving Over the Kansai/ On Dango: The Famous "Yokosuka Navy Base Toilet Job" Gavan McCormack, Tom Logan , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia occasionalpapers usa dango kansai us-military
Nationalism and the Market: China as a Superpower Chalmers Johnson , , asia-pacific china japan north-america northeast-asia usa workingpapers economics nationalism world-bank
American Press Illusions About Japanese Politics Steven K. Vogel , , , asia-pacific critiques japan usa northeast-asia north-america clinton liberal-democratic-party sakigake shinseito
Japan's Press Clubs as Information Cartels Laurie A. Freeman , , , , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia workingpapers asahi-shimbun japan-newspaper-publishers-and-editors-association jnpea ldp liberal-democratic-party
Japan and the U.S. Suffer a Security Imbalance/ Japanese Security Policy: Stuck in a Time-Warp Tatou Takahama, Edith Terry , , , , , asia-pacific china critiques guam japan north-america northeast-asia oceania okinawa usa acsa clinton michael-powell ryutaro-hashimoto security-policy u-s-japan-security-treaty
The Great Hanshin Earthquake/ The Relief Effort Seen by a Participant Glen S. Fukushima, Robert M. Orr, Jr. , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers hanshin-earthquake kobe
The YS-11 Project and Japan’s Aerospace Potential Stephen C. Mercado , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia occasionalpapers usa aerospace postwar-japan ys-11
Perspective on Violence: Explaining America to the Japanese / How to Open a Rice Market and Still Keep it Closed Sheila K. Johnson, Ulrike Schaede , , , , , critiques japan north-america northeast-asia asia-pacific crime gatt rice-market us-films violence yakuza
Mental Castration, the HIV Scandal, and the Japanese Bureaucracy Masao Miyamoto , , , , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia workingpapers aids amakudari bureaucracy hiv mental-castration
Needed: A Japan Strategy Chalmers Johnson , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa clinton industry japanese-american-auto-agreement trade
Market Access in the Global Economy: The Problem of Cartels Alan Wm. Wolff , , , , , , , asia-pacific europe north-america northeast-asia workingpapers east-of-burma-agreement european-union gatt international-trade-organization london-agreement oecd trade-liberalization wto
School Bullying Causes Teenage Suicides/ Holocaust Denial in Japan: Marco Polo Demonstrates Insensitivity Teresa Watanabe, Tatou Takahama , , , asia-pacific critiques japan northeast-asia bullying bungei-shunju holocaust-denial mental-health
Denying History: Cancelling the A-Bomb Stamp/ Prospects for U.S.-Japan Relations in 1995/ A Spark in North Korea: “This Tragic Loss of Life Was Unnecessary” Sheila K. Johnson, Chalmers Johnson , , , china critiques europe japan north-america north-korea northeast-asia russia usa asia-pacific carter cold-war pacific-war xiaoping
APEC--Australia’s Pragmatic Asia Policy? Lincoln Wright , , asia-pacific australia hong-kong japan northeast-asia oceania singapore south-korea taiwan workingpapers southeast-asia apec asian-tigers oecd
Building Japan’s Information Superhighway Joel West , , , , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia usa workingpapers communications multimedia national-information-infrastructure nihon-telephone-and-telegraph nii ntt
Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War Frank Gibney , , asia-pacific critiques japan northeast-asia history senso world-war-ii
Remembering the Past / Those Nasty Japs Again: War Memories and the Movies Patrick Smith, Sheila K. Johnson , , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa economy films industry policy post-war-japan trade
SPECIAL REPORT: OKINAWA AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY Why Are American Troops Still in Okinawa? / Supreme Court of Japan Testimony on U.S. Troop Presence Chalmers Johnson, Governor Masahide Ota , , , asia-pacific critiques japan korea north-america northeast-asia okinawa philippines southeast-asia usa land-aquisition ryukyu-islands ryukyu-kingdom us-military
Being “Japanese” in Brazil and Okinawa Kozy K. Amemiya , , asia-pacific brazil guam japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers oceania philippines southeast-asia latin-america culture immigration nationalism
The U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement of September 1994: Contending Views of Believer and Skeptic High Government Official vs. Pensioner of Cardiff High Government Official vs. Pensioner of Cardiff , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia usa workingpapers ntt policy trade
Japanese Cartels Still Block Imports / Tokyo Bureaucrats Rule as Leaders Come and Go Mark Tilton / E. B. Keehn , critiques japan usa northeast-asia asia-pacific north-america bureaucracy u-s-japan-relations
Machiavellian Politics and Japanese Ideals: The Enigma of Japanese Power Eight Michael Mosher , , asia-pacific china germany japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers europe karel-van-wolferen machiavellian-politics politics