If you will ever visit Japan there are some things that might seem quite surprising to you. Only few people wear Kimonos unless they are forced to do so. Ikebena is not that on and there are these mindnumbing black soundtrucks circling the inner cities... This site has been set up in order to promote real intercultural understanding. This means that I'd like to try to give you some more input about everyday life in Japan and - of course - about my research on the new right wing extremists of the minzoku-ha.
Apart
from a number of other things you'll find a scientific paper here:
Japan's
New Right Wing. My major thesis on Suzuki Kunio and the "shin uyoku" (German).
My articles, e.g. my regular column "Letter from Germany" for "Kansai Time
Out", can be read using the links
on
this page.
"The New Observer"
covers Japanese issues which are not in the news
Asian NGOs and their
German supporters can be contacted via the Asienhaus in Essen
Explore the Kansai
area with "Kansai Time Out"
Have a look at Taiichi Goto's report about our tour across the devastated industrial wastelands of the Ruhrgebiet me (in Japanese)
The Japan Information
Network provides all kinds of information on Japan
