Nationalism in the Abe Era
The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 15 | Issue 21 | Number 1 | Nov 01, 2017
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What is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan’s Abe Administration?¹
Tawara Yoshifumi
Translation by Asia Policy Point, Senior Fellow William Brooks and Senior Research Assistant Lu Pengqiao Introduction by Tomomi Yamaguchi (http://apjjf.org/#_edn1)


Introduction

Nippon Kaigi (http://www.nipponkaigi.org/) [The Japan Conference], established in 1997, is the largest right-wing organization in Japan. The organization is a major supporter of the current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, and both Japanese and foreign media report that Abe, and many of his cabinet, are prominent member of its Diet Members League. Despite Nippon Kaigi’s influence on governmental policies of Japan, the organization was little known to the general public until 2015. In 2016, however, numerous books and magazine articles focusing on Nippon Kaigi were published, some becoming best sellers. This created a “Nippon Kaigi boom” in the publishing world.2

"Trostfrauen", "Comfort Women"
The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 15 | Issue 19 | Number 4 | Oct 01, 2017
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Thinking About Coercion in the Context of Prostitution:
Japan’s Military ‘Comfort Women’ and Contemporary Sexually-Exploited Women

Onozawa Akane and Kitahara Minori
Introduction and Translation by Caroline Norma

Abstract:
Leading feminist thought leaders Onozawa Akane and Kitahara Minori discuss in dialogue the contemporary relevance of the Japanese military scheme of wartime sexual slavery. They identify the recruitment tactics of Japan’s pornography and prostitution businesses today as similar to those used in the wartime trafficking of women, and suggest that low level comprehension of women’s human rights means male demand for prostitution continues unhindered in Japan, as it has throughout modern history.

Nordkorea:   06.01.2016 ff H-Bom Tests
                  07.02.2016 ff Missiles; 29.08.2017 ICBM


29.08.2017 Süddeutsche Zeitung
Kim Jong-un blufft.
Nach dem erneuten Raketentest fürchten Beobachter eine Zuspitzung im Konflikt zwischen den USA und Nordkorea. Doch wie ernst die Bedrohung wirklich ist, zeigt sich an der innerkoreanischen Grenze - und da bleibt alles ruhig.
Kommentar von Christoph Neidhart

Hiroshima & Nagasaki 2017 - Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons

03.08.2017,  Pressemitteilung

Der Friedensbeauftragte des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), Renke Brahms, hat die Bundesregierung aufgefordert, dem von 122 Staaten beschlossenen Atomwaffenverbotsvertrag beizutreten. „