Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 4

The Future of Japan’s Immigration Policy: a battle diary

Sakanaka Hidenori

April 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

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

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Responsibility Denied: Japan’s Debate Over the Comfort Women

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Chimera: A Portrait of Manzhouguo. Harmony and Conflict

Joshua A. Fogel, S Yamamuro

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Cartoons for Peace: The Global Art of Satire

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Mobilizing Transnational Korean Linkages for Economic Development on China’s Frontier

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Bullets and Trains: Exporting Japan’s Shinkansen to China and Taiwan

Christopher P. Hood

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

The United States, China and Africa: eyes on the prize

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Gaijin Hanzai Magazine and Hate Speech in Japan: The Newfound Power of Japan’s International Residents

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific: Binding Japan and Australia, containing China

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Tragic Fire Illuminates South Korea’s Treatment of Migrant Workers

Robert Prey, S O Lee

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Koreans Under Assault From the Japanese Right

Takahashi Tetsuya

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’: It’s time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Bullets and Trains: Exporting Japan’s Shinkansen to China and Taiwan

Christopher P. Hood

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

The Forgotten Victims of the North Korean Crisis

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Abe’s Violent Denial: Japan’s Prime Minister and the ‘Comfort Women’

Alexis Dudden, K MIZOGUCHI

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

China’s Strategic Southeast Asian Overture

David Fullbrook

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

The North Korean Nuclear Problem, Japan, and the Peace of Northeast Asia

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Is Press Freedom Being Eroded in Japan?

David McNeill, Tony McNicol

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Japan’s Top Court Poised to Kill Lawsuits by Chinese War Victims

Kang Jian, William Underwood

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

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

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Multicultural Japan? Discourse and the ‘Myth’ of Homogeneity [Indonesian Translation Available]

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Another “Mediterranean” in Southeast Asia

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

The Great Japan-Mongolia Love Affair: What price the UN Security Council Seat?

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 3

Enhancing U.S. Engagement with North Korea

March 1, 2007

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Volume 5 | Issue 3

Japan Shields Itself from Attack

March 1, 2007

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Volume 5 | Issue 3

Left Behind: Japan’s Wartime Defeat and the Stranded Women of Manchukuo

March 1, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Chinese Labor Rights Debated

Brendan Smith, Catherine Gelb, Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello

February 20, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

China and the Future of the World Economy

Ho-fung Hung, Walden Bello

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire

Chalmers Johnson

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Eastwood’s War: The Battle of Iwo Jima

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Prisons of the Stateless: The Derelictions of the UN High Commission for Refugees and the Japanese Role

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

The Whale and the Cherry Blossom Festival

Brenda Peterson

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Politicians, Teachers and the Japanese Constitution: Flag, Freedom and the State

Lawrence Repeta

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Japan’s Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Stumbles on ‘Baby Machines’

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

The Courts, Japan’s ‘Military Comfort Women,’ and the Conscience of Humanity: The Ruling in VAWW-Net Japan v. NHK

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Japanese Visions of Lu Xun in the Light of the Magic Lantern Incident

Christopher Robins

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Postwar Japanese Intellectuals’ Changing Perspectives on “Asia” and Modernity

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Japan-Australia Cement Military and Economic Ties: Defence pact with Australia to extend Japan’s security relationship with US

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Finding Home: Immigrant Life in Japan

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the Kaesong Industrial Complex, and U.S.-Korea Relations

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

The Good Son Falters: Japan’s Abe Regime in Decline

A. Kashiwagi, Christian Caryl

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Robert Lang and the Global Reach of Origami

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Japan and the Whaling Ban: Siege Mentality Fuels ‘Sustainability’ Claims

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Self-Determination in Oceania: New Roles for US, Japanese and Asian Power?

Terence Wesley-Smith

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Dance, Or Else: The Politics of Ethnic Culture on China’s Southwest Borders

Sara L. M. Davis

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

Japan in the Edo Period: Global Implications of a Model of Sustainability

Eiichiro Ochiai

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing: The Prospect of Ending the 20th Century in East Asia

Gavan McCormack

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 2

North Korea: Nuclear Menace or Paper Tiger?

Georgy Bulychev

February 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea

Gavan McCormack, S Kamiya, Yonhap News

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Al Qaeda’s Southeast Asia, Jamaah Islamiyah and Regional Terrorism: Kinship and Family Links　　アルカイダの東南アジア、ジャマー・イスラミヤー、および地域テロ−−王建と家族的つながり

Noor Huda Ismail

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Little Birds: A Japanese Filmmaker’s Devastating Window on the Iraq War

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Can Economic Theory Demystify North Korea?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Government, the Military and Business in Japan’s Wartime Comfort Woman System

Hayashi Hirofumi

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Remake Politics, Not Nature: Tanaka Shozo’s Philosophies of ‘Poison’ and ‘Flow’ and Japan’s Environment

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Internationalizing the Okinawan Struggle: Implications of the 2006 Elections in Okinawa and the US

Yoshikawa Hideki

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Japan’s Wishful Nuclear Thinking: What Price Power?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Is Japan a Cultural Looter?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

A Strategic Partnership Between Japan and India?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Restoring Order: Conquering Iraq in the 13th and 21st Centuries. Could Genghis Khan teach the US?

Jack Weatherford

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions: Lessons for Iraq from Vietnam, El Salvador and the Middle East

William E. Odom

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Sanctions and the Road to War in Korea

John Feffer, M Hart-Landsberg

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Natural Farming Greening the Deserts: Japanese Farmer-Philosopher Fukuoka Masanobu

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Japan’s Korean Residents Caught in the Japan-North Korea Crossfire

H Matsubara, John Feffer, M Tokita

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Crime and Punishment in Japan: From Re-integrative Shaming to Popular Punitivism

K. HAMAI, Tom Ellis

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Can a Japanese Official Criticize George W. Bush? U.S. protests Kyuma’s criticism of Iraq invasion, but Japan’s Defense Chief raps Washington again

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Hubris, Intransigence, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Anthony DiFilippo

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

China’s Tortuous Middle East Journey: Israel, Iran, and Saudia Arabia

M K Bhadrakumar

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Geopolitics of the Afghanistan War: US Elevates Pakistan to Regional Kingpin. Implications for Russia, NATO, Iran and the Arab States

M K Bhadrakumar

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Indonesia: Natural Disasters or Mass Murder?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

China’s Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution and Pitfalls of Reform

C.K. Lee, Mark Selden

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

First into Nagasaki: George Weller’s Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on the atomic bombing and Japan’s POWs

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

The End of Overtime Pay: More Production or Just More Work for Japan’s White Collar Workers?

Charles Weathers, Scott North

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

China Moves Oil Up the Mekong: What price the environment?

Marwaan Macan-Markar

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

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

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

The Euro-American Psyche and the Imaging of Samoa in the Early 20th Century

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

A Foot soldier in the War Against Forgetting Japanese Wartime Atrocities

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

Love Your State, Love Your Boss: Whither Japan?

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 5 | Issue 1

The End of Overtime Pay: More Production or Just More Work for Japan’s White Collar Workers?

Charles Weathers, Scott North

January 2, 2007

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Wartime Sex Slave Exhibition Exposes Darkness in East Timor

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The New Cold War and US-Russian Relations

Stephen F. Cohen

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The History of U.S.Torture

Alfred W. McCoy

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Nanjing Massacre: Changing Contours of History and Memory in Japan, China, and the U.S.

Takashi YOSHIDA

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Literature, Ideology and Japan’s Revised Education Law: Kinoshita Junji’s Yuzuru

Takashima Nobuyoshi

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Free Speech – Silenced Voices: The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Militarization of Space and U.S. Global Dominance: the China Connection

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Donald Richie: A lifetime’s observations of Japan

Alexander Jacoby

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Chinese Advance in the South Pacific: Entrepreneurs Undaunted by Papua New Guinea Dangers

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Thinking the Unthinkable: Toward Japanese Nuclear Armament?

Yoshibumi Wakamiya

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

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

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Case for Japanese Constitutional Revision Assessed

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s FTA Drive, East Asian Regional Leadership and the China Challenge

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation! The Deterioration of Japan’s Fundamental Law of Education

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Neonationalist Offensive and the Military

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Overfishing to Overconsume. Lure of money set to empty the oceans

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Live Ammo: Testing of Biochemical Agents on U.S. Sailors

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Oil and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Japan-Iran Partnership in Azadegan

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Education Law Reform and the Hearts of Children

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

From Flags of Our Fathers to Letters From Iwo Jima: Clint Eastwood’s Balancing of Japanese and American Perspectives

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional Development

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Christmas Bombing of Vietnam

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Ethnic Detective and the Atomic Bomb: A Japanese American Mystery series

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society

A. Kashiwagi, Christian Caryl

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Relatives Hunt for Japanese War Dead: Remains of 1.2 Million MIAs Overseas

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Burden Sharing, Security and Equity in the Straits of Malacca

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

An Unyielding Demand for Justice: Wartime Chinese Laborers Sue Japan for Compensation

Norimitsu ONISHI

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine

Takahashi Tetsuya

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

North Korea’s Nuclear Test–Bush’s Godchild?

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society

A. Kashiwagi, Christian Caryl

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Chinese Labor Law Reform: Guaranteeing Worker Rights in the Age of Globalism

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

North Dakota Braves and the Atomic Bomb: Priest and Two Veterans in WMD Protest Sentenced for Prayer for Peace (Updated)

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Okinawan Election With US Base Plan in the Balance

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Bush May Face Religious Wrath in Indonesia

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan’s Military First Politics

Gavan McCormack

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

George Bush’s Visit to Indonesia, the Indonesia-US Relationship and the 1965 Coup

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

By What Power am I Called Hither? The Impunity of Kings and Presidents

Geoffrey Robertson

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Political Economy of Sanctions Against North Korea

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Goodbye Iran, Hello Iraq: Japan’s and China’s Oil Prospects in the Balance

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Sino-Russian Arms Dilemma

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Vietnam’s Roaring Economy, the World Stage and the US

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Japan’s New Miracle Economy: Neoliberalism and the Poverty of Wealth

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Perilous Journeys: North Korean Famine and Flight to China and Beyond

The International Crisis Group

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Maritime Interdiction of North Korean WMD Trade: Toward a Second Korean War?

Mark J. Valencia

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Time to End the Korean War: The Korean Nuclear Crisis in the Era of Unification

Sheila Miyoshi Jager

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

North Korean Famine, Refugees, and International Aid

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Inoue Hisashi: Crusader with a Pen

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Japan’s Missing Economic Link: Lagging Consumption and the China Factor

Stephen S. Roach

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Northern Territories Impasse, Russia and Japanese Dependence on the U.S.

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Tokyo Homes May Sit on World War II Mass Grave

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Against the System: Antiwar Writing of Kuroshima Denji

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

After the Bomb: North Korea Isn’t Our Problem

Anatol Lieven, John Hulsman

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

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

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Time of Reckoning: The North Korean Bomb, the United States, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

Alexandre Y. Mansourov

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Emerging Russian Giant: The US, Eurasia and Global Geopolitics

F William Engdahl

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Russian Energy Maneuvers Challenge Japan: The Sakhalin Ploy

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The New Pacific Wall: The U.S., Australia, and New Zealand Isolate and Divide Small Insular Nations

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Supranationalism and Mythologies of American Power

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Cold Comfort: The Japan Lobby Blocks Congressional Resolution on World War II Sex Slaves

Ken Silverstein

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Duree Perspective

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Russian Energy Geostrategy Redefines Relations with the US and EU

M K Bhadrakumar

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The “Integrated Community”: Toward the Transformation of the Hikikomori Archipelago Japan

Asano Shirou, Futagami Nouki

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

“Back to the Stone Age”: Origins of a Cliche

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Stalker State: North Korean Proliferation and the End of American Nuclear Hegemony

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Did North Korea Successfully Conduct a Nuclear Test? A Technical Analysis

Jungmin Kang, Peter Hayes

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Chinese Discovery of America: Gavin Menzies and 1421

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Japan and China: The Next Fifty Years

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Legacy of Long-Gone States: China, Korea and the Koguryo Wars

September 4, 2006

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