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Subscription & Fundraising Drive July 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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Korea’s Sipjangsaeng Iconography: The Quest for Longevity and Immortality in the Visual Arts of the Joseon Dynasty

The Illiberal Turn in Indonesian Democracy

Abe Prioritized Olympics, Slowing Japan’s Pandemic Response

Gavan McCormack

Abe Shinzo and Japan’s One-Strong (Ikkyo) State

Andrew DeWit, Riyanti Djalante and Rajib Shaw

Building Holistic Resilience: Tokyo’s 2050 Strategy

Astghik Hovhannisyan

The Testimony of a Victim of Forced Sterilization in Japan: Kita Saburō

Networking for War Criminal Amnesty: The Establishment of Japan’s War Convicted Benefit Society

Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Canada's “History Wars”: The “Comfort Women” and the Nanjing Massacre

Tomomi Yamaguchi

The “History Wars” and the “Comfort Woman” Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan and the U.S.

Seized Hearts: “Soft” Japanese Counterinsurgency Before 1945 and Its Persistent Legacies in Postwar Malaya, South Vietnam and Beyond

Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

Japanese Government Keeps Plugging Away at Henoko Base Construction Despite Clear Structural Obstacles

Sean Michael Wilson

Some Pages from the Manga Book ‘Tokyo and Olympics Guide’ with Commentary on Social and Environmental Significance, written by Sean Michael Wilson, illustrated by Makiko Kodama, published by Kodansha, bilingual edition, Dec 2019.

An Opportunity for Japan to Change People’s Perception

William Andrews

Playful Protests and Contested Urban Space: the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Protest Movement

Sonja Ganseforth

Anti-Olympic Rallying Points, Public Alienation, and Transnational Alliances

As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure

Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Fukushima and the Olympic Games

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics

Light, Currency, Spectacle, and War: Kobayashi Erika’s She Waited (2019)

Christian Tagsold

Symbolic Transformation: The 1964 Tokyo Games Reconsidered

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