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Suzuki Shin’ichi

Selections from Nurtured by Love

Katharine McGregor

Transnational and Japanese Activism on Behalf of Indonesian and Dutch Victims of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War II

Lawrence Repeta

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

Brian Victoria

Sawaki Kōdō, Zen and Wartime Japan: Final Pieces of the Puzzle

Katherine Muzik and William B.C. Chang

The Sense of Sacred: Mauna Kea and Oura Bay

Tawara Yoshifumi

The Abe Government and the 2014 Screening of Japanese Junior High School History Textbooks 2014

Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

Repatriation But Not “Return”: A Japanese Brazilian Dekasegi Goes Back to Brazil

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

Richard Sams and Saotome Katsumoto

Saotome Katsumoto and the Firebombing of Tokyo: Introducing The Great Tokyo Air Raid

Charles J. Hanley

In the Face of American Amnesia, The Grim Truths of No Gun Ri Find a Home

Justin Jesty

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

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Alexander Brown and Vera Mackie

Introduction: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

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

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

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Matthew Carney and David T. Johnson

Will Wrongful Convictions Be a Catalyst for Change in Japanese Criminal Justice?

Young Min Moon

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

David McNeill and Justin McCurry

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

Kathryn M. Tanaka and Hōjō Tamio

'Life's First Night' and the Treatment of Hansen's Disease in Japan

Moe Taylor

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

Ran Zwigenberg

Never Again: Hiroshima, Auschwitz and the Politics of Commemoration

Uemura Takashi and Tomomi Yamaguchi

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

Peter Dale Scott

North American Universities and the 1965 Indonesian Massacre: Indonesian Guilt and Western Responsibility 1965

Gavan McCormack

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

Margaret Mehl

Going Native, Going Global: The Violin in Modern Japan

Ota Masahide

Ryukyu Shimpo, Ota Masahide, Mark Ealey and Alastair McLauchlan, Descent Into Hell: The Battle of Okinawa

Marshall Sahlins

Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware

Stephanie Assmann

Gender Equality in Japan: The Equal Employment Opportunity Law Revisited

Ho-fung Hung

Three Views of Local Consciousness in Hong Kong

Elisheva A. Perelman

The Japanese Way of Silence and Seclusion: Memes of Imperial Women

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)

Tyrell Haberkorn

Martial Law and the Criminalization of Thought in Thailand

Roger Pulvers

The Life and Death of Lafcadio Hearn: A 110-year perspective

Tsurumi Kazuko and Tom Gill

New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata

Rick Baldoz

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

Hiroshi Mitani

Why Do We Still Need to Talk About “Historical Understanding” in East Asia?

Brian Victoria

Sōka Gakkai Founder, Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, A Man of Peace?

Kirk A. Denton

Exhibiting the Past: China’s Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum

Herbert P. Bix

Abe Shinzo and the U.S.-Japan Relationship in a Global Context

Jung-Sun Han

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

Koide Reiko

Critical New Stage in Japan’s Textbook Controversy

David McNeill

Japanese Government Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Meltdown

John Mock

Hidden Behind Tokyo: Japan's Rural Periphery

Jordan Sand

Imperial Tokyo as a Contact Zone: the Metropolitan Tours of Taiwanese Aborigines, 1897-1941

Holly H. Ming

Migrant Workers’ Children and China’s Future: The Educational Divide

Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George

Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan

Feng Jianyong

The 1911 Revolution and the Frontier: The 'Political Game' and 'State-Building' in Outer Mongolia during the 1911 Revolution

Matthew Penney

'Why on earth is something as important as this not in the textbooks?' – Teaching Supplements, Student Essays, and History Education in Japan

Pekka Korhonen

Leaving Asia? The Meaning of Datsu-A and Japan’s Modern History

Robert Moorehead

Separate and Unequal: The Remedial Japanese Language Classroom as an Ethnic Project