Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico (Nov 2007)

Japan 2006 in historical perspectives

  • Michiko Tanaka Nishishima

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 95 – 114

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Readings of the current Japanese politics with the historic and social insight through analysis of four facts registered in 2006: the visit of the prime minister Koizumi to the Yasukuni shrine; the election of Abe Shinzo as the president of Liberal Democratic Party and the formation of Abe cabinet; the Atomic bomb experimentation by the North Corea; the publication of the book of feminist counteroffensive against the numerous rightist conservative harassment.

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