Isa Ducke is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

• 1. Introduction 2. Internet and New Technologies in Japan 3. Civil Society in Japan 4. Use of the Internet by Political Actors in the Japanese-Korean Textbook Controversy 5. Web Site Strategies of Small Citizens’ Groups. A Quantitative Web Site Analysis 6. How Umbrella Organizations in Japan, Korea, and Germany Use New Technologies. A Comparative Approach 7. The Internet as a Platform for Political Participation and Mobilization in the Debate about the Dispatch of Troops to Iraq

Isa Ducke is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

• 1. Introduction 2. Internet and New Technologies in Japan 3. Civil Society in Japan 4. Use of the Internet by Political Actors in the Japanese-Korean Textbook Controversy 5. Web Site Strategies of Small Citizens’ Groups. A Quantitative Web Site Analysis 6. How Umbrella Organizations in Japan, Korea, and Germany Use New Technologies. A Comparative Approach 7. The Internet as a Platform for Political Participation and Mobilization in the Debate about the Dispatch of Troops to Iraq

Isa Ducke is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

• 1. Introduction 2. Internet and New Technologies in Japan 3. Civil Society in Japan 4. Use of the Internet by Political Actors in the Japanese-Korean Textbook Controversy 5. Web Site Strategies of Small Citizens’ Groups. A Quantitative Web Site Analysis 6. How Umbrella Organizations in Japan, Korea, and Germany Use New Technologies. A Comparative Approach 7. The Internet as a Platform for Political Participation and Mobilization in the Debate about the Dispatch of Troops to Iraq