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Ikeda Hiroshi

Hitler's dismantling of the constitution and the current path of Japan's Abe administration: What lessons can we draw from history?

Gavan McCormack

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

Christine Ahn

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

Katsuya Hirano

Fukushima and the Crisis of Democracy: Interview with Murakami Tatsuya

Hans-Joachim Bieber

Zen and War: A Commentary on Brian Victoria and Karl Baier's Analysis of Daisetz Suzuki and Count Dürckheim

Brian Victoria

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

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

Gavan McCormack

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

Charles J. Hanley

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

Michael G. Chang

The Emperor Qianlong’s Tours of Southern China: Painting, Poetry, and the Politics of Spectacle

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

Herbert P. Bix

Showa History, Rising Nationalism, and the Abe Government

Tomoko Akami

Japan's New Empire and the Dōmei News Agency in Occupied Southeast Asia, 1942-45

Mel Gurtov

China's Triangle Diplomacy

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 （）

Peter Dale Scott

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

Ota Masahide

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

Marshall Sahlins

Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware

Alicia Campi

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

Ho-fung Hung

Three Views of Local Consciousness in Hong Kong

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)

Emma Campbell

“Fieldwork” North Korea: Observations of daily life on the ground inside the country

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

Misook Lee

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

Kirk A. Denton

Exhibiting the Past: China’s Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum

Henri Feron

Doom and Gloom or Economic Boom? The Myth of the 'North Korean Collapse'

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

Yoshiko Sakumoto Crandell

Surviving the Battle of Okinawa: Memories of a Schoolgirl

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

Christine Hong

War by Other Means: The Violence of North Korean Human Rights

David McNeill

Japanese Government Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Meltdown

Lawrence Repeta

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

David Adam Stott

Indonesia’s Elections of 2014: Democratic Consolidation or Reversal?

Peter Dale Scott

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

Mark Caprio and Mizuno Naoki

Stories from Beyond the Grave: Investigating Japanese Burial Grounds in North Korea

Se-Woong Koo and Jamie Doucette

Distorting Democracy: Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea [UPDATE]

John W. Dower

The San Francisco System: Past, Present, Future in U.S.-Japan-China Relations

Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George

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

Su-kyoung Hwang

South Korea, the United States and Emergency Powers During the Korean Conflict

Brian Victoria

A Zen Nazi in Wartime Japan: Count Dürckheim and his Sources—D.T. Suzuki, Yasutani Haku’un and Eugen Herrigel

Luigi Tomba

A New Chinese Land Reform?