1. Age of Extremes 
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
2. American Power and the New Mandarins 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
3. Another view: The South takes the pictures
   New Internationalist August 2007 - #403
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2007
   A look at the states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and South Africa and their experience of change presented in pictures.
4. Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Pilot Copy, February 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
8. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
   Principles of Economic Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
9. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
12. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
13. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
14. 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
    Enough
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
15. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
16. Gatekeeper
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2016
    In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
17. How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
18. Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
19. Marxism in Japan
    Resource Type: Article
    Selected documents.
20. A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
21. The Okinawa missiles of October
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
    Depression and Joy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
23. A People's History of the United States 
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
24. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
25. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
26. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
27. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
28. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
29. Socialist Register 1996
    Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    
30. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
31. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
32. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
33. The Young Man Was
    Part 1: United Red Army
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.

Experts on Japon in the Sources Directory

1. The Hermitage
2. Tokyo National Museum
3. United Nations