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Gavan McCormack

Japan’s Problematic Prefecture – Okinawa and the US-Japan Relationship

Yang Ching Ja

Are You Listening to the Voices of the Victims? My Critique of Park Yuha’s Comfort Women of the Empire

PERSPECTIVE

Steve Rabson

Perry’s Black Ships in Japan and Ryukyu: The Whitewash of History

Tim Shorrock and Steve Rabson

Okinawans Say “No Pasarán” to the U.S. Marines: A delegation to Washington asks the Obama administration to respect democracy

Yoshikawa Hideki

All Okinawa Goes to Washington – The Okinawan Appeal to the American Government and People

Gavan McCormack

To the Courts! To the Streets! Okinawa at December 2015

Robert Jacobs

The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene

FEATURE

Gavan McCormack

Introduction: The Experts Report and the Future of Okinawa

FEATURE

Okinawan Experts Comission

Okinawan Experts Commission Reports Flaws in Authorization Process for New Military Base at Henoko

FEATURE

Sakurai Kunitoshi

To Whom Does the Sea Belong? Questions Posed by the Henoko Assessment

Takazane Yasunori

Should “Gunkanjima” Be a World Heritage site? - The forgotten scars of Korean forced labor

Kimie Hara

Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in United States–Japan–China Relations

Christine Ahn

Opening the Door to Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Women Cross DMZ

Ellen Sebring

Civilization & Barbarism: Cartoon Commentary & “The White Man’s Burden” (1898–1902)

Lawrence Repeta

Japan’s Proposed National Security Legislation — Will This Be the End of Article 9?

Mel Gurtov

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Deeply Flawed Partnership (TPP)

Zeljko Cipris

To Hell With Capitalism: Snapshots from the Crab Cannery Ship

Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

The March 2015 Bombings of Yunnan and the Decline in Sino-Myanmar Relations 20153

Peter Dale Scott

Islam, a Forgotten Holocaust, and American Historical Amnesia

Benjamin Young

Juche in the United States: The Black Panther Party’s Relations with North Korea, 1969-1971

Rowena Ward

The Asia-Pacific War and the Failed Second Anglo-Japanese Civilian Exchange, 1942-45

Yong-ho Ch'oe

Japan’s 1905 Incorporation of Dokdo/Takeshima: A Historical Perspective

Fran Martin, Chris Healy, Koichi Iwabuchi, Olivia Khoo, Claire Maree, Keren Yi and Audrey Yue

Australia’s “Asian Century”: Time, Space and Public Culture

Young Min Moon

Citizenship and North Korea in the Zainichi Korean Imagination: The Art of Insook Kim ･

Moe Taylor

'Only a disciplined people can build a nation': North Korean Mass Games and Third Worldism in Guyana, 1980-1992

Peter Hayes

Ending a Nuclear Threat via a Northwest Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone

Uemura Takashi and Tomomi Yamaguchi

Labeled the reporter who “fabricated” the comfort woman issue: A Rebuttal

Herbert P. Bix

Showa History, Rising Nationalism, and the Abe Government

Nogawa Motokazu and Nishino Rumiko

The Japanese State’s New Assault on the Victims of Wartime Sexual Slavery

Richard Tanter

Australia in America's Third Iraq War

Mel Gurtov

China's Triangle Diplomacy

Jeremy Kuzmarov

'Distancing Acts': Private Mercenaries and the War on Terror in American Foreign Policy

Peter Hayes

US Strategic Negligence, North Korea and the Sony Slideshow

Christine Hong

Stranger than Fiction: The Interview and U.S. Regime-Change Policy Toward North Korea

Hyun Lee

The Erosion of Democracy in South Korea: The Dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party and the Incarceration of Lee Seok-ki （）

Gavan McCormack

The End of the Postwar? The Abe Government, Okinawa, and Yonaguni Island

Marshall Sahlins

Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware

Camellia Webb-Gannon and Jim Elmslie

MSG Headache, West Papuan Heartache? Indonesia's Melanesian Foray MSG（）

Adam Broinowski

Undermining Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Energy and Security Politics in the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Nuclear Nexus ···

Alicia Campi

Transforming Mongolia-Russia-China Relations: The Dushanbe Trilateral Summit

Ho-fung Hung

Three Views of Local Consciousness in Hong Kong

Peter Dale Scott

The Fates of American Presidents Who Challenged the Deep State (1963-1980) (1963-1980)

David McNeill

'If we don't face our past, we're bound to repeat the same mistakes.' Japanese wartime medical orderly reports on army's role in maintaining 'comfort women' system

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the Making of Japan's Transwar Regime (Part 2)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the Making of Japan's Transwar Regime (Part I)

Yoshikawa Hideki

An Appeal from Okinawa to the US Congress. Futenma Marine Base Relocation and its Environmental Impact:: U.S. Responsibility

Guy Almog

The Myth of the 'Pacifist' Japanese Constitution

Vince Scappatura

The US ‘Pivot to Asia’, the China Spectre and the Australian-American Alliance

Karl Jakob Krogness

Jus Koseki: Household registration and Japanese citizenship

Andrew DeWit

Hiroshima's Disaster, Climate Crisis, and the Future of the Resilient City