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Wada Haruki with an introduction by Alexis Dudden

Overcoming the San Francisco System: One Japanese Person’s View

C. Douglas Lummis

We’re Not So Good at Running ... But We Still Know How to Sit: On The Political Culture of Okinawa’s Anti-Base Sit-In

Gavan McCormack

Irresistible Force (Japan) Versus Immovable Object (Okinawa): Struggle Without End?

Philip J. Cunningham

Retracing Steps at Beijing University, 1989-2019

The Chuo Shinkansen Project: High Speed Rail in Japan

Taoka Shunji With Introduction and Translation by Steve Rabson

Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from South Korea is Long Overdue: Examining the Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula

Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Amidst an Explosion of Anti-Korean Hate: Thoughts on Overcoming Colonialism and Bringing Peace to the Korean Peninsula

“Book Burning” in Japan

Etsuko Takushi Crissey

Okinawa’s G.I. Brides: Their Lives in America

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

“I was exposed to nerve agent on Okinawa” – US soldier sickened by chemical weapon leak at Chibana Ammunition Depot in 1969 breaks silence on what happened that day.

“Yamazaki, Shoot Emperor Hirohito!” Okuzaki Kenzo’s Legal Action to Abolish Chapter One (The Emperor) of Japan’s Constitution

Nicholas Johnson

Ghosn, Yamashiro and the United Nations -- Japan’s Coercive Police Practices in the International Spotlight

Peter Wynn Kirby

Slow burn: Dirt, Radiation, and Power in Fukushima

Pinar Temocin and Noriyuki Kawano

Citizen Advocacy: The Achievements of New Zealand`s Peace Activism

In Memory of Jan Ruff-O’Herne ジャン・ラフ・オハーンさん追悼文

James D.J. Brown

Japan-Russia Relations and the Miraculous Revival of Suzuki Muneo

Reclaiming the Community One Bomb at a Time: The View From Indochina

Radomir Compel, Fumihiko Yoshida and Hibiki Yamaguchi

What role did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet entry into the war play in Japan’s decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Bikini Atoll Is Not A Beer: Pacific Islanders Speak Out

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