Japan Link List for January 2009 - a draft

Armstrong, Shiro
Improving Japan-China relations and the global trading system
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/18/improving-japan-china-relations-and-the-global-trading-system/

Auslin, Michael
The Prosecution of Power in Japan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704842604574642981216140274.html

Brooks, William
Ozawa’s position weakens as media smell blood
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/ozawas-position-weakens-as-media-smells.html

Japan polls: The rot has stopped
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/japan-polls-rot-has-stopped.html

Golden opportunity to reaffirm vows, editors hope
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/golden-opportunity-to-reaffirm-vows.html

America: Japan loves you
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/america-japan-loves-you.html

Unhappy New Year for Hatoyama's foreign policy
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/unhappy-new-year-for-hatoyamas-foreign.html

Dickie, Mure and Daniel Dombey
US-Japan relations clouded by Okinawa
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4266b212-04c1-11df-9a4f-00144feabdc0.html

Drifte, Reinhart
A new start for Japan-China relations?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/05/a-new-start-for-japan-china-relations/

Funabashi, Yoichi
Testing time in Japan for Hatoyama’s diplomatic skills
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/20/testing-time-in-japan-for-hatoyamas-diplomatic-skills/

Gaunt, Jeremy
What can Kan do?
http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2010/01/07/what-can-kan-do/

Green, Michael, et al
Analysis of Secretary of State Clinton’s Asia Architecture Speech
http://csis.org/publication/analysis-secretary-state-clinton%E2%80%99s-asia-architecture-speech

Harden, Blaine
Japan's prime minister weakened by arrests, scandals in ruling party
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011801028.html?hpid=sec-world

Harris, Tobias
The Ozawa saga continues in Japanese politics
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/19/the-ozawa-saga-continues-in-japanese-politics

A new US-Japan alliance in the making?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/13/a-new-us-japan-alliance-in-the-making/

Masuzoe threatens Japan’s LDP
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/12/masuzoe-threatens-japans-ldp/

Kan will replace Fujii as Japan’s new finance minister
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/07/kan-will-replace-fujii-as-japans-new-finance-minister/#more-9008

The unrealistic DPJ?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/05/the-unrealistic-dpj

Japan: Returning to Asia
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/01/japan-returning-to-asia/

Hosoya, Juji
Japan's Hidden Champions Hold the Key to Revitalization of Regional Economies
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/columns/a01_0275.html

Koike, Yuriko
Change in the Japan-U.S. Alliance
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2010/01/16/201001160033.asp

Klingner, Bruce
Military Base Dispute Strains U.S.-Japan Alliance
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm2769.cfm

Kubota Yoko
Date Therapy for Japan’s Bureaucrats
http://blogs.reuters.com/japan/2010/01/22/date-therapy-for-japan-bureaucrats/

Kwan, Chi Yun
China Set to Pass Japan and Become World's Second Largest Economy
- Sights now on surpassing the United States in terms of GDP -
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/china/09122502.html

Ikenberry, G. John and Charles P. Kupchan
A New Japan, a New Asia
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22iht-edikenberry.html

Madsen, Robert
Playing Politics With Japan's Money Supply
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011752940201526.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Masters, Coco
New Scandal Hits Japan's Ruling Party
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1955028,00.html

Mattich, Allen
Is It Too Soon to Worry About Japanese Debt?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704320104575015102055698476.html?mod=WSJ_Markets_LEFTSecondNews

Marx, W. David
Japanese Music: 200-2009
http://neojaponisme.com/2010/01/14/japanese-music-2000-2009/

Mulgan, Aurelia George
Japan’s Ozawa Ichiro – the power of one
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/21/japans-ozawa-ichiro-the-power-of-one/

Asia’s New Strategic Partnerships
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/20/asias-new-strategic-partnerships/

Is Japan’s DPJ a party of reform on agriculture and agricultural trade?
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/01/13/is-japans-dpj-a-party-of-reform-on-agriculture-and-agricultural-trade/

Munekata, Naoko
The U.S., China, and Japan in an Integrating East Asia
(Contribution to the Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/special/policy-update/037.html

Nagaoka Sadao
Seeking the Differences in Research and Development in Japanese and U.S. Companies
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/about/Highlight_26/chap4.pdf

Penn, Michael
Why DPJ said 'no' to an Indian Ocean mission
http://newasiapolicypoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-dpj-said-no-to-indian-ocean-mission.html

Samuels, Richard J.
Tokyo and Washington Celebrate their Alliance -- Too Soon
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/21/tokyo_and_washington_celebrate_their_alliance_too_soon

Scalise, Paul
When ‘Revolution’ Turns To Despair
http://www.newsweek.com/id/231128

Shinada, Naoki
Stock ownership and corporate performance in Japan: Corporate governance by institutional investors
http://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/10e005.pdf

Slater, David
The Making of Japan's New Working Class: "Freeters" and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market
http://japanfocus.org/-David_H_-Slater/3279

Takahashi, Kosuke
Hatoyama to Nanjing, Hu to Hiroshima? The New Face of China-Japan Relations
http://japanfocus.org/-Kosuke-TAKAHASHI/3290

Urashima, Etsuko
Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches
http://japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/3291

Japan Productivity Center
International Comparisons of Labor Productivity
http://www.jpc-net.jp/eng/research/2009_11.html

Any suggestions of additions would be much appreciated.