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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