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Gavan McCormack

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

Norma Field

From Fukushima: To Despair Properly, To Find the Next Step

PERSPECTIVE

Noriko Manabe

Japanese Elections: The Ghost of Constitutional Revision and Campaign Discourse

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

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

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

Helen Macnaughtan

Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?

Benjamin Young

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

Oguma Eiji

Japan's 1968: A Collective Reaction to Rapid Economic Growth in an Age of Turmoil

Gavan McCormack

“All Japan” versus “All Okinawa” - Abe Shinzo’s Military-Firstism

Justin Jesty

Tokyo 1960: Days of Rage & Grief: Hamaya Hiroshi’s Photos of the Anti-Security-Treaty Protests

FEATURE

Alexander Brown and Vera Mackie

Introduction: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

FEATURE

Takanori Tamura

The Internet and Personal Narratives in the Post-Disaster Anti-Nuclear Movement

FEATURE

Allison Holland

Natural Disaster, Trauma and Activism in the Art of Takamine Tadasu

David McNeill and Justin McCurry

Sink the Asahi! The ‘Comfort Women’ Controversy and the Neo-nationalist Attack ！

Uemura Takashi and Tomomi Yamaguchi

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

Gavan McCormack

Storm Ahead: Okinawa's Outlook for 2015

Nogawa Motokazu and Nishino Rumiko

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

Hyun Lee

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

Andrew DeWit

Japan’s Resilient, Decarbonizing and Democratic Smart Communities

Gavan McCormack

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

Andrew DeWit

Japan's Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japanese-Style 'Stadtwerke' (FiT)Stadtwerke （）

Marshall Sahlins

Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware

Camellia Webb-Gannon and Jim Elmslie

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

Ho-fung Hung

Three Views of Local Consciousness in Hong Kong

Linda Hoaglund

Protest Art in 1950s Japan: The Forgotten Reportage Painters

Peter Dale Scott

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

Tyrell Haberkorn

Martial Law and the Criminalization of Thought in Thailand

Shota Ogawa

Korean Film Companies in U.S. Occupied Japan: Imagining an Independent Korea

Misook Lee

The Japan-Korea Solidarity Movement in the 1970s and 1980s: From Solidarity to Reflexive Democracy

Andrew DeWit

US Pacific Command, Climate Change and Collaborative Society

Rick Baldoz

“Comrade Carlos Bulosan”: U.S. State Surveillance And the Cold War Suppression of Filipino Radicals

Noriko Manabe

Uprising: Music, youth, and protest against the policies of the Abe Shinzō government

Christopher Gerteis

Political Protest in Interwar Japan Part I

Christopher Gerteis

Political Protest in Interwar Japan--Part II

William Andrews

Trial Support Groups Lobby for Japanese Prisoner Rights, Fight to Rectify Injustices

Takahashi Tetsuya

What March 11 Means to Me: Nuclear Power and the Sacrificial System

Jung-Sun Han

Japan in the public culture of South Korea, 1945–2000s: The making and remaking of colonial sites and memories

Peter Dale Scott

The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing

Tyrell Haberkorn

Hannah Arendt, Nidhi Eoseewong, and the Spectre of Totalitarianism in Thailand

Lawrence Repeta

Japan’s 2013 State Secrecy Act -- The Abe Administration’s Threat to News Reporting

Peter Dale Scott

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld (Updated March 13, 2014)

Philip C. Brown

Call it A ’Wash’? Historical Perspectives on Conundrums of Technological Modernization, Flood Amelioration and Disasters in Modern Japan

Gavan McCormack

The Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy in Japan – Nago City, Okinawa

Mark Selden and Yabuki Susumu

The Origins of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute between China, Taiwan and Japan

Gavan McCormack

Bitter Soup For Okinawans - The Governor’s Year-End Betrayal