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Peter Matanle, Joel Littler and Oliver Slay

Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Change: Is Japan’s Seawall a New Maginot Line?

Gail Hershatter

Women and China’s Socialist Construction, 1949–78

People’s Tribunal on War Crimes Committed by South Korean Troops during the Vietnam War

Japan's F-35 Acquisition and the Arms Race in the Western Pacific: Strategic Game Changer or Epic Boondoggle?

Alicia E and Thomas David DuBois

China Eats—Innovation, E-Commerce and Food Safety at the Hangzhou Food Forum

Jackie Kim-Wachutka

When Women Perform Hate Speech: Gender, Patriotism, and Social Empowerment in Japan

The FOIA and the Study of US Policy on Okinawa and Japan

Samuel J. Timinsky

The Nation That Never Rests: Japan’s Debate Over Work-Life Balance and Work that Kills

From Singapore to Hanoi and Beyond: How (Not) to Build Peace between the U.S. and North Korea

Abdication, Succession and Japan’s Imperial Future: An Emperor’s Dilemma

Jennifer Hubbert

Globalizing China: Confucius Institutes and the Paradoxes of Authenticity and Modernity

An Open Letter to Emperor Akihito: For establishing a genuine democracy in Japan

By Tamaki Rieko, Translation by Steve Rabson Illustrations by Yamashiro Saburō

Amidst War’s Devastation: How a Ten-year-old Girl Barely Survived the Battle of Okinawa

The Mutual Gaze of Okinawans and Zainichi Koreans in Post-War Japan: From 1945 to the 1972 Okinawa Reversion

Higa Tami and Douglas Lummis

Every day except Sundays, holidays and typhoon days, Okinawans confront the US military at Henoko, site of a planned new base

Yoshikawa Hideki

Hesitant Heritage: U.S. Bases on Okinawa and Japan’s Flawed Bid for Yambaru Forest World Heritage Status

Ryan Holmberg, Joelle Chaftari, Maximilien Berthet, Hidaka Mari, Vanessa Yue Yang, Fujimoto Takako, Noémie Lobry and Yumi Song

Kanto Loam Stories: Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today

David McNeill, Justin McCurry

Reinventing the Japan Times: How Japan’s oldest English-language newspaper tacked right: Updated

Ishimure Michiko with Introduction and Translation by Bruce Allen

Hara Castle: Ishimure Michiko's Historical Novel on the 17th Century Shimabara Rebellion and the Massacre of Christians

Chelsea Szendi Schieder

A “Necessary Evil”? Keeping Women Out of Medical Schools Won’t Fix What Ails the Japanese Medical Profession

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