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David McNeill is a professor at the Department of English Language, Communication and Cultures at Sacred Heart University in Tokyo. He was previously a correspondent for The Independent and The Economist newspapers and for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is co-author of the book Strong in the Rain (with Lucy Birmingham) about the 2011 Tohoku disaster. He is an Asia-Pacific Journal editor. Follow David on Twitter @DavidMcneill3
davidamcneill@gmail.com

Johnny Kitagawa and the Code of Omerta in Japanese Entertainment

The Abe Legacy: A Compendium

Union City Blues

The Scoop Machine: Shukan Bunshun vs Access Journalism and Censorship in Japan: An Interview with Shintani Manabu

“I Have No Regrets”

Mind the Gender Gap: Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Feminism and Literature in Japan

Spinning the Rings: The Media and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Freedom Fighting: Nagoya’s censored art exhibition and the “comfort women” controversy

The Great Survivor

Justin McCurry and David McNeill

Reinventing the Japan Times: How Japan’s oldest English-language newspaper tacked right: Updated

Justice Postponed: Ito Shiori and Rape in Japan

Murder of the Soul - Shiori and Rape in Japan

Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill

Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl?

False Dawn: The Decline of Watchdog Journalism in Japan

Nippon Kaigi and the Radical Conservative Project to Take Back Japan

Androniki Christodoulou and David McNeill

Inside Fukushima's Potemkin Village: Naraha

David McNeill and Justin McCurry

Sink the Asahi! The ‘Comfort Women’ Controversy and the Neo-nationalist Attack ！

'If we don't face our past, we're bound to repeat the same mistakes.' Japanese wartime medical orderly reports on army's role in maintaining 'comfort women' system

Justin McCurry and David McNeill

After the Deluge: Tsunami and the Great Wall of Japan

Japanese Government Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Meltdown

Paul Jobin and David McNeill

Japan’s 3.11 Triple Disaster: Introduction to a Special Issue

David McNeill and Paul Jobin

Special Issue: Japan’s 3.11 Triple Disaster (Table of Contents)

Al-Jazeera America on the Fukushima Triple Disaster, Three Years On

Back to the Future: Shinto, Ise and Japan’s New Moral Education

David McNeill and Justin McCurry

Japan's Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup

Mission Impossible. What Future Fukushima?

Cover-Up: Toyota and Quality Control

Life and Death Choices: Radiation, children, and Japan’s future

Truth to Power: Japanese Media, International Media and 3.11 Reportage

After the Quake: Journey to Fukushima

In the Shadow of Japan’s Wounded Nuclear Beast

Back from the Brink

Why I love Japan even more since the earthquake

Sato Eisaku's Warning

Japan’s government faces looming crisis over ‘whack-a-mole’ nuclear policies

‘We’ve no idea when we’ll be back’

A young man sacrificing his future to shut down Fukushima

Blood Money - Fukushima Victims Bitter Over Compensation−−

Warning: Genius at Work - The Art of Aida Makoto ！

Fukushima - Two Years On —

Whaling as Diplomacy

The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation

Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster Zone−−

Implausible Denial: Japanese Court Rules on Secret US-Japan Pact Over the Return of Okinawa−−

Jake Adelstein and David McNeill

What happened at Fukushima?

After Fukushima: Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds in Britain and Japan−−

Waiting for Doomsday: Living next to the 'world’s most dangerous nuclear power plant.'−−

Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill

Meltdown: On the Front Lines of Japan's 3.11 Disaster

Back from the Brink: A city in ruins looks to the future−−

Communities Struggle to Rebuild Shattered Lives on Japan's Coast

Waiting for the Dam to Break: WikiLeaks and Japan −−

Peter Alford and David McNeill

Stop the Press? The Sankei and the State of Japan's Newspaper Industry ？

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Toyota and the consequences of the drive to be the world’s No.1 −−

Secrets and Lies: Ampo, Japan's Role in the Iraq War and the Constitution−−

Gravity Defying: Whither Korea’s bid to build a world-class city entirely from scratch?

The Terminators. Police Death Squads in the Philippines

Hongo Jun, Kamiya Setsuko, Alex Martin, Matsutani Minoru and David McNeill

Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children

Modern Life is Rubbish: Miyazaki Hayao Returns to Old-Fashioned Filmmaking

Tokyo's Mean Streets

Justice for Some. Crime, Victims and the US-Japan SOFA

T. Taniguchi and David McNeill

A Solution to the Whaling Issue? Former MOFA spokesman speaks out

Justin McCurry and David McNeill

Japan's King of Fish Faces Extinction

Campaigners fight to clear "Tokyo Two" in Whaling Case. Treatment of Greenpeace activists creates worldwide protests

Yomiuri and David McNeill

Unmasking Capital Punishment: A Wave of Executions, The Yomiuri and Japan's Death Penalty

Out of the Shadows: Can Japan's Nuclear Power Renaissance Reduce Global Emissions?

Jake Adelstein and David McNeill

Magnificent Obsession: Japan's Bone Man and the World War II Dead in the Pacific

Martyrs for Peace: Japanese antiwar activists jailed for trespassing in SDF compound vow to fight on

John Junkerman and David McNeill

Freedom Next Time. Japanese Neonationalists Seek to Silence Yasukuni Film (UPDATED)

Suffer little Children: Legacies of War in Cambodia

Certain Justice. Japan's Detention System and the Rights of the Accused

The Last Samurai

Look Back in Anger. Filming the Nanjing Massacre

Eros & Death: The World of Araki Nobuyoshi

Kicking Your Head to Get Rid of a Headache: Palm Oil & the Imminent Extinction of the Orangutan

Shaken to the Core: Japan's Nuclear Program Battered by Niigata Quake

International Media Scream 'Yellow Peril'. Race and sensationalism in coverage of Japan's Hawker, Blackman murders

Softly, Softly. Did the Japan Institute of International Affairs buckle under right-wing pressure? No, says Amb. Satoh Yukio. Yes, say his critics.

Adam Lebowitz and David McNeill

Hammering Down the Educational Nail: Abe Revises the Fundamental law of Education

Harpooned. Japan and the future of whaling

Kaji Maki: First he gave us sudoku

C.M. Mason and David McNeill

Dead Men Walking: Japan's Death Penalty

Japan's History Wars and Popular Consciousness

Tony McNicol and David McNeill

Is Press Freedom Being Eroded in Japan?

In the Shadow of Hiroshima. U.S. Marines and Japanese SDF collaborate at Iwakuni six decades after the bomb

Japan and the Whaling Ban: Siege Mentality Fuels 'Sustainability' Claims

Taiji: Japan's Dolphin Cull and the Clash of Cultures

A Foot soldier in the War Against Forgetting Japanese Wartime Atrocities

Ryuichi SAKAMOTO: From Bach to Rock to Pop . . . and the Fate of the Corporate Earth

Still Taboo After All These Years: Japan's New Imperial Heir and the Media

The Struggle for the Japanese Soul: Komori Yoshihisa, Sankei Shimbun, and the JIIA controversy

Selective Pain: Kidnapping, Contemporary Japan and Media Obsession

John Junkerman, David McNeill and Gavan McCormack

Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads

Ian Mather and David McNeill

Japan and the Intensifying Global Whaling Debate

Clifford Coonan and David McNeill

Japanese Flock to China for Organ Transplants

Enemies of the State: Free Speech and Japan's Courts

Still Angry After All These Years: Imelda Marcos responds to critics of the Marcos dictatorship

Flags of Our Fathers: commemorating Iwo Jima

What Role Japan's Imperial Family?

Family Ties: The Tojo Legacy