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REMINDER: The deadline for the 2019 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize competition is soon approaching. Translations should be submitted by the deadline of August 1, 2019. The 2018 prizes were awarded to Dawn Lawson for Nakajima Shōen’s A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (Sankan no meika, 1889) and to Max Zimmerman for the short story, “An Artificial Heart” (Jinkō Shinzō, 1936) by Kosakai Fuboku. For further information please see the Cornell Asian Studies Department website.

Articles by Jeff Kingston

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Jeff Kingston is Director of Asian Studies, Temple University (Japan Campus) and a Japan Focus associate. He is the author of “Burma’s Despair,” Critical Asian Studies, 40:1 (March 2008), 3-43, several recent articles on East Timor, and Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2004). He also is the editor of Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan’s 3/11, Routledge 2012. He is the author of Contemporary Japan. (2^ndedition), London:Wiley 2013 and Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).

Nationalism in the Abe Era

The Japan Lobby and Public Diplomacy

Japanese University Humanities and Social Sciences Programs Under Attack

SEALDs: Students Slam Abe’s Assault on Japan’s Constitution

Testy Team Abe Pressures Media in Japan

Abe’s Nuclear Energy Policy and Japan’s Future

After 3.11: Imposing Nuclear Energy on a Skeptical Japanese Public

Japan's Nuclear Village

Mismanaging Risk and the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village

Ousting Kan Naoto: The Politics of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in Japan−−

Justice on Trial: Japanese Prosecutors Under Fire

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Tomihisa Taue, Tadatoshi Akiba and Jeff Kingston

The Nuclear Age at 64: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Struggle to End Nuclear Proliferation

After the Whirlwind: Post-Nargis Burma, the 2010 Elections and Prospects for Reform

Nanjing's Massacre Memorial: Renovating War Memory in Nanjing and Tokyo

Tom Hyland and Jeff Kingston

Japan's Nuclear Disaster and Plans to Export Reactors to Indonesia

Convulsions of Nation-Building: Violence-ridden East Timor on the eve of elections

East Timor's Search for Justice and Reconciliation

Peace or Justice? East Timor's Troubled Road

Compensating Colonial Lepers, Slave Laborers and Hibakusha: Troubling Legacies and Evolving Standards of Postcolonial Justice in Japan

Self-immolation Protests PM Abe Overturning Japan’s Pacifist Postwar Order

Asano Ken'ichi and Jeff Kingston

Japanese Mass Media Buries Self-Immolation Protest Over Abe Government's Constitutional Coup

Extremists Flourish in Abe's Japan