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Subscription & Fundraising Drive Summer 2020

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus is a reader-supported journal. We invite your support at a time when the Asia-Pacific and our world is being turned upside down by the combination of US-China conflict in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic coinciding with economic, political, climate and nuclear crisis. $12,000 is our goal for the present drive.

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Mark Selden for the editors

From Hiroshima to Hollywood: How Pressure from Leslie Groves and President Truman Sabotaged the First Movie About the Bomb

Makoto Ibusuki and Lawrence Repeta

The Reality of the “Right to Counsel” in Japan and the Lawyers’ Campaign to Change It

Japan’s Marital System Reform: The Fūfubessei Movement for Individual Rights

Muto Ruiko and Norma Field

This Will Still Be True Tomorrow: “Fukushima Ain’t Got the Time for Olympic Games”: Two Texts on Nuclear Disaster and Pandemic

Mariko Asano Tamanoi

The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) in Postwar Japan

Stephen Epstein and Christopher K. Green

Crash Landing on You and North Korea: Representation and Reception in the Age of K-Drama

Masao Sugiura, Kaye Broadbent and Mana Sato

Against the Storm: How Japanese printworkers resisted the military regime, 1935-1945

New Film Explores U.S. Suppression of Key Footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Cold War Panic and the Korean War Film: From Bamboo Spears to Body Snatchers

The Quality of Emperorship in 21st Century Japan: Reflections on the Reiwa Accession

Japan’s Streets of Rage: The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Uprising and the Origins of Contemporary Japan

Japan’s Integration of All-Hazard Resilience and Covid-19 Countermeasures

John A. Mathews

Oil Price Wars, Covid-19 Havoc and the Evolving US-China Trade War

Mark W. Frazier

Hong Kong in 2020: Pandemic, Protest and Great Power Rivalry

Tracing Individual Perceptions of Media Credibility in Post-3.11 Japan

Damming the Mekong: China, Laos, Cambodia and the fate of Tonle Sap Lake

Is There Left Populism in Japan? The Case of Reiwa Shinsengumi

Levi McLaughlin

Japanese Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Preliminary Report

PM Abe’s Floundering Pandemic Leadership

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement

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