Administrative reform

Planning (committees, etc).

Deregulation

Financial deregulation

Privatization (JNR)

Privatization (NTT)

Aging/Welfare

Agriculture, forestry & fisheries (rice)

Anti-trust

APEC

Art/Aesthetics

Asia

Central

Northeast

Southeast (ASEAN)

Hongkong/Taiwan
*see also Korea, Foreign relations, NIEs

Bureaucracy

Business

General

Auto Industry

Banking industry
*see also Construction, Defense, Economy, Financial markets, Foreign businesses in Japan, Transportation, U.S. Business in Japan

China (PRC)

COCOM

Competitiveness

Computers

Constitution

Construction (dango, etc)

Consumers

Crime (yakuza, terrorism; see also Political ethics)

Defense/SDF

Deregulation (see Administrative reform)

Diet (Parliament)

Diplomacy

Direct investment (overseas by Japan)

Distribution system

Domestic demand boost policy (minkatsu, see also Maekawa report)

Economy

Education

Elections

Emperor

Imperial Household Agency

Showa

Heisei

Energy

Environment (whaling, pollution, natural disasters)

Finance

Financial markets (securities industry)

Fiscal policy (see also Administrative reform)

Foreign affairs/internationalization

Foreign aid (ODA, NGOs)

Foreign businesses in Japan

Foreign relations with

Africa

China

Eastern Europe

EC

Korea

Latin America

Mideast

Pacific Basin (Australia, Canada, Oceania; see also APEC)

Russia (includes all former Soviet republics)

Taiwan

United States
*see also Asia

Foreigners in Japan

FSX

Futurology

Government

Nakasone (Nov 82-Nov 87)

Takeshita (Nov 87-June 89)

Uno (June 89-Aug 89)

Kaifu (Aug 89-Oct 91)

Miyazawa (Nov 91-Aug 93)

Hosokawa (Aug 93- )

Hata ( 94- 94)

Murayama ( 94-Jan 96)

Hashimoto (Jan 96- July 98)

Obuchi (July 98 - April 2000)

Mori (April 2000 - April 2001)

Koizumi (April 2001 - present)
*see also Political parties

Health & medical

History (official apologies, Hiroshima) Income distribution

Industrial policy

Intellectual policy

Japan-U.S.

High-tech cooperation/competition

Trade
*see also Foreign relations

Japanese companies overseas

Japan's new world role (PKO, burden sharing, etc)

Keiretsu

Korea (see also Foreign relations)

Labor (guest workers, immigration policy; see also Foreigners in Japan)

Land policy

Law/legal (see also Crime, Intellectual property)

Living conditions/lifestyles (leisure, sports)

Local government (decentralization)

Maekawa Report (see also domestic demand)

Manufacturing (kudoka, hollowing out)

Media

Minorities (Ainu, Burakumin, Koreans; see also Foreigners in Japan)

Nationalism/right wing

New media (multimedia; see also Media, Telecommunications)

NIES (Taiwan, Hongkong, Korea, Singapore)

Obituaries

Overseas Japanese

Philanthropy

Political ethics (scandals)

Political parties

Democratic Socialist Party (Minshato, 1960- )

Japan Communist Paprty (Kyosanto, 1922- )

Japan New Party (Nihon Shinto, 1992-94)

Japan Socialist Party (See Social Democratic Party of Japan)

Komeito (Clean Government, 1964- )

LDP (Liberal Democratic Party)

New Frontier (1994- )

New Liberal Club (Shinjiyu Kurabu, 1976-86)

Shinseito (1993- )

Shinto Sakigake (1993- )

Social Democratic Party of Japan (Shakaito, 1945- )

United Social Democratic Party (Shaminren, 1978- )

Political reform

Political trends/citizen's movements

Public opinion polls

Radicals (Narita; see also Crime)

Regional development (see also Local government, Decentralization)

Religion

Rengo (see also Labor, 1992- )

Science & technology/R&D

SDI

Semiconductors

Small & medium-scale enterprises (see also Business)

Socio-cultural trends

Soviet Union (see also Foreign relations)

Summits/G-7

Tax (see also Administrative reform)

Telecommunications

Third World

Trade (see also Japan-U.S. trade)

Transportation (maglev, air routes)

United Nations

United States

Business in Japan

Economy
*see also Foreign relations, Japan-U.S. Trade)

Women

Yen Bloc (see APEC)

Yen in world financial markets (Black Monday 1987)

Youth