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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American Inertia and Drift in Asia Alan Tonelson , , , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia southeast-asia usa apec clinton cold-war economy gulf-war nixon sino-soviet
South Korea’s Academic Lobby Bruce Cumings , asia-pacific korea north-korea northeast-asia occasionalpapers south-korea education history
Japan Adrift Without Moral Mission/ Addressing Japan’s Cartels of the Minds Steven C. Clemons, Ambassador Walter F. Mondale , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa asahi-shimbun culture diplomacy ldp society
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia occasionalpapers usa hirohito modern-japan post-american-administration
Strengths and Weaknesses of Education in Japan / Academic Apartheid at Japan’s National Universities Masao Kunihiro, Ivan P. Hall , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia usa workingpapers academic-apartheid diplomacy education
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
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
Postwar Japan - A Reminiscence Hans H. Baerwald , , , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers ghq jcp post-war-japan scap
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
The End of the “Special” U.S.-Japan Relationship John W. Dower , , asia-pacific china japan north-america northeast-asia usa workingpapers pacific-war sino-japanese-war westernization
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
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
The Importance of Yoko Ono Murray Sayle , , , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia occasionalpapers dada lennon postwar yoko-ono
Korean Scandal, or American Scandal? Bruce Cummings , , , , asia-pacific japan korea north-america north-korea northeast-asia south-korea usa workingpapers cia dipolmacy foreign-policy korean-war republic-of-korea
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
Blindside Revisited Eamonn Fingleton , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa economy ministry-of-finance trade world-war-ii
State Suppression of New Religions in Prewar Japan and Its Lessons for Today/ Aum Shinrikyo and Oklahoma Sheldon Garon, Sheila K. Johnson , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa aum-shinrikyo oklahoma omotokyo religion state-suppression
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
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 U.S. Government’s Photographic Film and Paper Case Against the Government of Japan Charles Lake , , , , , , asia-pacific critiques japan north-america northeast-asia usa fair-trade-commission ftc fuji-film kodak liberalization miti organization-for-economic-cooperation-and-development
The Left in Japanese Politics: Is There Movement Toward a Third Pole? Lonny E. Carlile , , , , , , asia-pacific japan northeast-asia workingpapers ldp liberal-democratic-party new-frontier-party nfp politics sdpj social-democratic-party
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
Fund-Raising in Japan: A Sasakawa Saga Hans H. Baerwald , , asia-pacific japan north-america northeast-asia occasionalpapers usa international-student-center sasakawa-fund ucla
The U.S. General Accounting Office’s Report on the Proposed Marine Corps Floating Heliport Off Okinawa Chalmers Johnson , , , , , asia-pacific japan korea north-america north-korea northeast-asia occasionalpapers okinawa southeast-asia usa vietnam environmental-impact gao military saco special-action-committee-on-okinawa us-general-accounting-office