Declaration (II) By The Government Of Japan It is the intention of the Japanese government formally to accede to the following international instruments within the shortest practicable time, http://www.taiwandocuments.org/sanfrancisco04.htm
Extractions: Declaration (II) by the Government of Japan 8 September 1951 D E C L A R A T I O N With respect to the Treaty of Peace signed this day, the Government of Japan makes the following Declaration: 1. Except as otherwise provided in the said Treaty of Peace, Japan recognizes the full force of all presently effective multilateral international instruments to which Japan was a party on September 1, 1939, and declares that it will, on the first coming into force of the said Treaty, resume all its rights and obligations under those instruments. Where, however, participation in any instrument involves membership in an international organization of which Japan ceased to be a member on or after September 1, 1939, the provisions of the present paragraph shall be dependent on Japan's readmission to membership in the organization concerned. 2. It is the intention of the Japanese Government formally to accede to the following international instruments within the shortest practicable time, not to exceed one year from the first coming into force of the Treaty of Peace:
Officialdom And The Press Too Clubby In Japan? Examines how japan's press club system stifles the free flow of news and usually just presents what the government wants the people to hear. Free registration required. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/international/asia/19lett.html
Analysis - Japanese Government Information japanese government Information New Rules for Access Since the 1980 s, many of japan s government offices have maintained windows for examination of http://www.freedominfo.org/analysis/japan1/
Extractions: A. INTRODUCTION After more than 20 years of lobbying by Japanese citizen's groups, opposition political parties and others, Japan's national Information Disclosure Law came into effect on April 1, 2001 ( Joho Kokai Ho , formally titled Gyoseikikan no Hoyu Suru Joho no Kokai ni Kansuru Horitsu , Law Concerning Disclosure of Information Held by Administrative Agencies). This law creates for the first time a legally enforceable right of access to Japanese national government files. Japan thus joins a growing list of countries with national laws providing a right of access to government information, including in Asia, the Republic of Korea and Thailand. The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which served as a model and inspiration for Japan's law, was enacted in 1966 and has been expanded and improved many times since. FOIA has been used by millions of people to access a vast range of previously confidential information concerning such matters as food and drug safety, the environment, government investigations, and virtually every topic of public interest.
Extractions: (All Households/ change over year(in real terms)) Statistical System Statistical System in Japan Guide to Official Statistics in Japan Statistical Standard Classifications ... OECD World Forum on Key Indicators "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy" What's New List of What's New September 21 "Population Estimates" (September 2005) September 21 "Monthly Statistics of Japan" (September 2005) September 6 "Family Income and Expenditure Survey" (Two-or-more-person Households) (July 2005, All Households) September 1 "Statistical Handbook of Japan 2005" August 30 "Labour Force Survey" (July 2005) August 30 "Family Income and Expenditure Survey" (July 2005, Workers' Households) August 26 "Unincorporated Enterprise Survey" (Trend survey) Latest quarter of 2005(2005.4-6) August 26 "Retail Price Survey" (July 2005) August 26 The 2000-base "Consumer Price Index" (August 2005, Ku-area of Tokyo(preliminary) / July 2005, Japan)
JET Programme Official government information on the JET Program. http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/jet/
Small And Midium Enterprises Information Of Japan An organization to provide a database on SMEs in japan, list government policies, and assist tieups with non-japanese firms. http://www.sme.ne.jp/japane.html
English Contents Documents several cases of ultraconservatives pushing and the government's use of school textbooks that distort history, manipulate facts, ignore historical research and issues of Comfort Women and Unit 731, and glorify Japanese aggression during East Asia. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kyokasho/net21/english_contents.htm
Extractions: Japanese English Contents Statement against Fuso-sha History Textbooks Adopted by the Tokyo Metropolitan School Board here Criticisms of the Japanese Government Authorization of Japanese History Textbooks ? the Case of g Koko Nihonshi B h (Senior High School Japanese History Textbook B) published by Meiseisha? here Appeal : A Textbook That Treads The Path of Constitution Denial and International Isolation Should Not Be Handed Over to Japanese Children (3 April 2001) here December 2000 Appeal by Japanese Historians and History Educators here Concerning Sankei E Fusosha Publishing E Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform f s Junior High School History Textbook (Plain Cover Draft Edition) here The Falsification of History Under the Guise of 'Self-Censorship'Has Been Forced onto Textbook Publishers
K-12 From Japan (Internet And Education) Lists of online schools, organizations and government agencies relating to education. Also covers tertiary and special education as well. http://www.osaka-kyoiku.ac.jp/educ/index-e.html
Extractions: We start interoperation between Simple and Safety School Search Japanese add URL schools ... Osaka Kyoiku Univ. [Search Word: 1 Calendar past present future 2 Research organization university tech college education center 3 School senior high junior high elementary special ... kindergarten 4 Resource book art museum resource ... report 5 Activity children health international society ... preoject 6 World children teacher project 7 Index japan world Japanese add URL ... Osaka Kyoiku Univ. Access count of this page is since 1/4/97- .
Extractions: From the Japan Times : Japan's telecommunications ministry announced yesterday it may force consumer WLAN users to pay spectrum user fees. [T]he ministry plans to hit the users with these fees because such appliances use almost the same spectrum as mobile phones, whose users are required to pay the fees, they said. The move might provoke stiff opposition from product manufacturers as it is likely to affect their sales. The ministry plans to collect fees from users of information appliances when they purchase these products, according to the sources. Manufacturers of home appliances are currently stepping up efforts to develop information appliances that are linked via wireless networks and can be controlled from anywhere. Spectrum user fees have been charged in connection with licensed broadcasting and radio stations, as well as with cellular phone companies.
Extractions: Only about 1% of Japan's population is registered as foreign An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem. Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, was speaking at the end of a nine-day tour of the country. He said Japan should introduce new legislation to combat discrimination. Mr Diene travelled to several Japanese cities during his visit, meeting minority groups and touring slums. Japan mulls multicultural dawn He said that although the government helped to organise his visit, he felt many officials failed to recognise the seriousness of the racism and discrimination minorities suffered. He was also concerned that politicians used racist or nationalist themes, as he put it, to whip up popular emotions. He singled out the treatment of ethnic Koreans and Chinese and indigenous tribes.
Consulate General Of Japan In New York japanESE government SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS In the year 2004, over 100000 students from around the world attended institutions of higher education in japan, http://www.cgj.org/en/h/01.html
JPRI Occasional Paper No. 17 Essay on Hirohito and the japanese government coming to grips with japan's decision to go to war and their postwar relationship with the United States. http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op17.html
Extractions: He said the Emperor had remarked to him several times that the name given his reign Showa, [meaning] Enlightened Peace now seemed to be a cynical one but he wished to retain that designation and hoped that he would live long enough to insure that it would indeed be a reign of "Splendid Peace." Gen. Courtney Whitney On April 28, 1952, the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, and the Administrative Agreement granting American military forces in Japan special privileges all went into effect simultaneously. GHQ was abolished; the occupation ended. Thousands of American armed forces began to go home. Japan now, at last, regained formal independence. At last also the long era of combined military-civilian rule, which had begun in the mid-1880s under Meiji and endured through MacArthur and Ridgway, came to an end. Hirohito finally realized his often stated wish that the occupation be long and followed by an alliance with the United States that would protect Japan militarily into the future. Probably the emperor had even foreseen that the alliance (as opposed to the presence of large numbers of American troops) would be relatively popular with about half the nation, as indeed it proved to be. That the peace treaty had been signed with forty-eight nations but not with the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and India did not bother Hirohito as it did most leftist and some conservative politicians. They opposed both the one-sided peace and the defensive military alliance that had as its main object the containment of China and the Soviet Union.
Japan Government japan government, japan government homepage, japan government web, japan government net, information about japan government. http://search.asiaco.com/Japan/Government/
Japan The annual U.S. government appraisal of Japanese laws, courts, human rights, and treatment of minorities, for 2004. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41644.htm
Extractions: Japan is a parliamentary democracy based on its 1947 Constitution. Sovereignty is vested in the citizenry, and the Emperor is defined as the symbol of state. Executive power is exercised by a cabinet, composed of a prime minister and ministers of state, which is responsible to the Diet, a two house parliament. The Diet, elected by universal suffrage and secret ballot, designates the Prime Minister, who must be a member of that body. The most recent national elections were in July. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Komeito Party make up the current coalition government headed by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The judiciary is generally independent. The Self-Defense Forces are responsible for external security and have limited domestic security responsibilities. The well organized and disciplined police force is effectively under the control of the civilian authorities. However, there continued to be credible reports that police committed some human rights abuses. In spite of a lengthy economic downturn, the industrialized, free market economy continued to provide the approximately 127,580,000 residents with a high standard of living and high levels of employment.
Japan - Government Publications (Monash University Library) Japanese government publications can be found in the library catalogue under title, government Publications Japanese language, no English version http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/govpubs/international/japan.html
Extractions: Government publications and links to Ministry home pages. There is a search engine in English but site is not replicated in English so navigation is limited. National Diet Library site, includes a full text (Japanese language only) database of the Diet session proceedings since the 1st session (May, 1947) Japanese Prefectures
Extractions: Greenpeace Japan Japanese English home World Greenpeace Greenpeace International Argentina Austria Australia Pacific Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece India Israel Italy Japan Lebanon Luxembourg Malta Mediterranean Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Norway Pacific Russia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tunisia Turkey United Kingdom USA Greenpeace Japan Press Release October 20, 2004 Tokyo - As the super-sized Typhoon Tokage (Typhoon 23) is about to hit Japan's capitol city, renew the history record on the number of typhoons hitting Japan, the international environmental group Greenpeace will hold an outdoor press conference in the storm, demanding that the Japanese government take further action to combat dangerous climate change and promote renewable energy. The outdoor news conference will be held near the statue of Hatchiko (dog) , outside of Shibuya Railway Station, from 5:00PM this afternoon. The increased strength of recent typhoons is consistent with scientific predications issued by the United States NOAA earlier this year. It predicts typhoons and hurricanes of greater intensity as a result of warmer ocean waters, which will give storms greater strength. Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean have been widely reported this year, south and east of Japan where the typhoons originate.
JPRI Working Paper No. 79 Essay on the growing friction in the Japanese government's directives to use wartime nationalist symbols to bolster student patriotism, and their possible connotations and effects. http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp79.html
Extractions: Flags and national anthems are potent political symbols that can be used for good or for ill. In Mississippi voters recently retained a state flag that contains a symbol of the Confederacy, deeply offensive to Black Americans. In almost all modern nations the coffins or bodies of soldiers or civilians killed in battle are draped in the national flag. Revolutionaries and political enemies burn the flags of their opponents both as a sign of their hatred and to provoke more violence. Japan, at the end of World War II, was forbidden by its victorious occupiers both to fly its flag, the Hinomaru (meaning literally "round sun") and to use its national anthem Kimigayo ("his majestic reign"). However, in 1952, after the Occupation ended, the Hinomaru was again displayed on public buildings and at public ceremonies, and Kimigayo was played even when the words were not always sung. As early as 1958, the Ministry of Education issued a "guidance" in its teachers' manual (gakushu shido yoryo) that it was desirable to raise the national flag (it did not say the Hinomaru, as if it were already established as such) and to sing Kimigayo at public school ceremonies. It should be noted that the term shido, often translated as "guidance," is actually a euphemism for directive, with the connotation of mandatory compliance. In 1961, the government also created subcommittees on the national flag and national anthem; however, they failed to recommend legislation due to the leftist parties' opposition. In 1974, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka expressed his intention to legislate the national flag and anthem but never did so.
Extractions: Greenpeace Japan Japanese English home World Greenpeace Greenpeace International Argentina Austria Australia Pacific Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece India Israel Italy Japan Lebanon Luxembourg Malta Mediterranean Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nordic Norway Pacific Russia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tunisia Turkey United Kingdom USA Greenpeace Japan Press Release November 12, 2004 Greenpeace The government commission to revise Japan's Long-term program for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy (long-term nuclear energy policy) is expected to conclude in favor of reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel today. Greenpeace Japan warns that reprocessing causes deadly radiation releases into the environment that are a threat to public health, and urges the committee to hold a more comprehensive review and public hearings. Activists from Greenpeace stood outside the meeting with a banner showing a map of expected radiation dispersal. Others inside the meeting brought a question to the committee members saying "Are you going to export radiation contamination from Rokkasho to Japan, and to the world.?" "There was almost no discussion on the environmental impacts and human health impacts from the reprocessing in the commission." Said Nogawa ATSUKO, nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace Japan. " Seeing names of members is to know the conclusion of continuing reprocessing. It is no surprise this commission supports reprocessing, as most come from organizations that will profit from the decision. Without a comprehensive review on the environment, safety and nuclear proliferation, conclusion should not be made." she continued.
