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Reminder: Submissions to Cornell University’s 2021 Selden Prize Competition for translations from Japanese is coming up fast! Materials may be submitted electronically or by hard copy by August 1. Translations of works from across all time periods and genres are welcomed! For details see the prize announcement at: http://asianstudies.cornell.edu/selden-prize

Japanese Swords as Symbols of Historical Amnesia: Touken Ranbu and the Sword Boom in Popular Media

Gavan McCormack

Tokyo 2020-21: The Troubled Games of the XXXll Olympiad

Donald M. Seekins

The February 1, 2021 Coup d’Etat in Burma: Some Reasons Why

Edible Wild Plants in Japanese Culture and Cuisine: A Look at the Japanese Horse Chestnut

Glenn Moore and Cassandra Atherton

Shrine Forests, Bonsai and Public Parks in Tokyo: Old Trees as Symbols of Continuity

“The Backside of Japan,” Development, and Imperialism in Northeast Asia

Early Meiji Diplomacy Viewed through the Lens of the International Treaties Culminating in the Annexation of the Ryukyus

Stevan Harrell and Mary Alice Haddad

The Evolution of the East Asian Eco-Developmental State

The Abuse of History: A Brief Response to J. Mark Ramseyer’s 'Contracting for Sex'

Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert

Amy Stanley, Hannah Shepherd, Sayaka Chatani, David Ambaras and Chelsea Szendi Schieder

“Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue, Freedom of Speech, and Academic Integrity: A Study Aid

Miki Dezaki, Mark R. Frost and Edward Vickers

Debating Shusenjo - the Main Battlefield of the Comfort Women Issue: Director Miki Dezaki in conversation with Mark R. Frost and Edward Vickers

When National Narratives Clash in Multinational University Classrooms: A Pedagogical Perspective

Sexual Violence in Wartime and Peacetime: Violence Against Women in the 20st Century

Voices of the ”Comfort Women”: The Power Politics Surrounding the UNESCO Documentary Heritage

Reconstructing the History of the “Comfort Women” System: The Fruits of 28 years of Investigation into the “Comfort Women” Issue in China

Daniel Schumacher

Asia’s global memory wars and solidarity across borders: diaspora activism on the “comfort women” issue in the United States

Slaves to rival nationalisms: UNESCO and the politics of ‘comfort women’ commemoration

Transmitting Knowledge and Gaining Recognition: Chinese “Comfort Women” Reparation Trials in the 1990s and 2000s

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