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Matthew Penney is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and a Japan Focus associate. He is currently conducting research on popular representations of war in Japan. His dissertation, entitled "Victims and Victimizers - Representations of War in Japanese Popular Culture," is concerned with Japanese historical memory and popular attempts to deal with war crimes and aggression from the 1950s to the present day. He is the author of a number of articles, including "Rising Sun, Iron Cross - Military German in Japanese Popular Culture," Japanstudien, Vol. 17 (2005); and "Far From Oblivion - The Nanking Massacre in Japanese Popular Writing for Children and Young Adults," Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming).

'Why on earth is something as important as this not in the textbooks?' – Teaching Supplements, Student Essays, and History Education in Japan

Miyazaki Hayao’s Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)

The NHK Comfort Women Documentary -- 10 Years Later

Reports from Tohoku: Assessing Death, Dislocation, and Flight of the Victims−−

Outpouring of International Support for Japan

Heroes or Victims? - The

Bodies in Fukushima

“Unforgivable” – TEPCO’s Plan to Add Reactors in Fukushima

Unease or Untruth? – The Removal of Nakamura Koichiro

「サイエンス」「ネイチャー」両誌における福島原発事故評価

Songs for Fukushima

Okinawa’s Fukushima Connection: Nuclear Workers at Risk−−no

Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation−−

The Voices of Ten Million: Anti-Nuclear Petition Movement Launched in Japan−−

Contamination Outside Fukushima

Business as Usual - Controversy Flares Over Japanese Nuclear Exports−−

Nuclear Power and Shifts in Japanese Public Opinion

The Fukushima Anniversary: Japanese Press Reactions−−

Japan's Green Energy Push

Neo-nationalists Target Barefoot Gen

The Abe Cabinet - An Ideological Breakdown

“Racists Go Home!”, “Go Crawl Back to the Net!” – Anti-Racism Protestors Confront the Zaitokukai ！！

Abe and History - The Kobayashi Yoshinori Interview —

Public Opinion and the July 21 Election

Miyazaki Hayao and the Asia-Pacific War

Nuclear Nationalism and Fukushima

Matthew Penney and Mark Selden

What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima？

Nationalism and Anti-Americanism in Japan – Manga Wars, Aso, Tamogami, and Progressive Alternatives

War and Japan: The Non-Fiction Manga of Mizuki Shigeru

Foundations of Cooperation: Imagining the Future of Sino-Japanese Relations

"The Most Crucial Education": Saotome Katsumoto and Japanese Anti-War Thought