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Tanaka: Defending the Peace Constitution in the Midst of the SDF Training Area

Znet Article, February, 09 2005 Nobumasa Tanaka
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The severe rainstorm from last night has stopped. The sunshine is bright for early winter. The leaves on the trees have not yet turned a vivid color. Although the gusts of wind blowing in...

Tanaka: Yasukuni Shrine and the Double Genocide of Taiwan's Indigenous Atayal:

Znet Article, July, 27 2004 Nobumasa Tanaka
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[Who enshrines the dead? A widely held international principle, that surviving family members determine the disposition of the dead, including those who die in combat, is being tested anew in Japanese courts. Nearly 50,000 Taiwanese and Korean sol...

Tanaka: The Dead Must Not be Abused:

Znet Article, April, 18 2004 Nobumasa Tanaka
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[Approximately 6,000 people in Japan and overseas have filed lawsuits in six district courts, charging that Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro's repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine in his capacity as Prime Minister violates principles of freedom of r...

Tanaka: Conscience and a Music Teacher's Refusal to Play the National Anthem

Znet Article, January, 28 2004 Nobumasa Tanaka
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[The singing of Japan's national anthem Kimigayo, an ode to the emperor, and the flying of the Hinomaru flag, both evocative of Japan's colonial era, have become flashpoints of conflict in recent years as the Japanese government presses to reincor...

Tanaka: Yasakuni Shrine, Japanese Nationalism, and the Constitution

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Nobumasa Tanaka
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The Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead, more specifically to those who gave their lives for the Japanese emperor, has long been a center of controversy in postwar Japan. Now it becomes the focus of a series of judicial challenges to its constitut...

Tanaka: High School Students Struggle Against National Anthem Enforcement

Znet Article, December, 14 2002 Nobumasa Tanaka
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According to a survey by the Ministry of Education and Science, this spring's graduation ceremonies' enforcement rate of singing "Kimigayo" (the Japanese national anthem) crept ever closer to their target of 100%. Behind these figures, there remai...