Selected features
Japan's Nationality Law
Elements of citizenship
Alien residence laws and stats
Fingerprinting in Japan
The racialization of Japan
One-hundred-million hybrids
The Empires of Japan
75 years after Pacific War
1952 ROK-Japan nationality agreement
Soshi kaimei myths
The continuing annexation (ROK & DPRK)
Recognition politics (ROC & PRC)
Zaitokukai vs. Zainichiism
Forthcoming
Special Permanent Residents vanishing
Where are the historians?
Comfort women, prostitutes, sex slaves
Freedom of (hate?) speech
Moritomo Gakuen incidents
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Updated 5 August 2024

Forthcoming
Personality and culture revisited
Sugiyama v. State, 1978-1988: 1981 Tokyo District Court decision
ROC and PRC: The unfinished civil war and the failure of recognition politics
Belonging in Japan past and present: Before and after "nationality" and "citizenship"
The Civil and Pacific Wars: Two continuing conflicts 160 and 80 years later
Nogawa et al. v. State, 2018-2021:
Loss of nationality caused by Article 11 not unconstitutional

Eric C. Han on Japan's 1899 Nationality Law:
How "exclusive" was the status of being Japanese?

Deokhyo Choi on postwar "Korean minority question":
Another example of writing the "Empire" out of history

Historical fiction or fictional history? A review of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko
SPR extinction: Why Special Permanent Residents are a vanishing species
Where are the historians? A cry in the wilderness of victimhood history
Hate speech: What it is and isn't, and should it be muzzled?
Moritomo Gakuen incidents: Romantic ethnonationalism run amok

Posting history
2024-07-17   "Yosha Bunko" was reconfigured without the "yoshabunko.com" domain
2024-01-01   New Kunioki Yanagishita, Catch 51: A Han-Japa Odyssey
2024-01-01   New Medical welfare in Japan in 1883
2024-01-01   Updated Japan's Nationality Law: A primer and guide to other articles
2024-01-01   Updated Nationality in Japan: The legal foundations of a raceless nation
2024-01-01   Updated Race boxes in US censuses, 1790-2020
2024-01-01   Updated Reports from early records: Natives and barbarians at the dawn of Japanese history
2024-01-01   Updated The Kawakita Treason Case: The double-edges of dual nationality
2024-01-01   Shapiro and Sugiyama v. State: 1977-1988 nationality lawsuits
2024-01-01   Revised Legal terminology related to nationality, status, courts, and agencies
2024-01-01   Revised 1872 Family Register Law: Japan's first "law of the land"
2024-01-01   Revised Social status laws in Japan: Caste, class, and titles of nobility since 1868
2024-01-01   Revised Tokyo's 1872 Ishiki kaii jōrei: Policing public order, safety, hygiene, and morality
2024-01-01   Revised Status and applicable law: Governing the civil affairs of territorialized people
2024-01-01   Revised The Interior: The legal cornerstone of the Empire of Japan
2023-10-06   Updated "Comfort women" or "sex slaves"? Accurate history v. ideological exaggeration and denial
2020-10-15   Updated And then there were none: A review of Kim Soom's Han myŏng as Hitori
2018-03-23   Updated Japan's Nationality Law   A primer and guide to other articles
2017-04-15   New Zaitokukai and the Japanese roots of Zainichiism
    Special Permanent Residents as a caste of descendants of former Japanese
2017-04-05   "yoshabunko.com" domain acquired from Sakura Internet in Japan
    The domain was used to identify the "Yosha Bunko" website
2015-08-25   New Nationality after World War II   Japan's bilateral talks with ROC and ROK
2011   "Yosha Kenkyujo" was restyled "Yosha Bunko"
1995   Internet inauguration of "Yosha Kenkyujo" -- my "shop name" as a researcher and writer

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