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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

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

Ellen Sebring

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

Richard Minear and Franziska Seraphim

Hanaoka Monogatari: The Massacre of Chinese Forced Laborers, Summer 1945 1945

Hans-Joachim Bieber

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

Zeljko Cipris

To Hell With Capitalism: Snapshots from the Crab Cannery Ship

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

Jon Mitchell

Vietnam: Okinawa's Forgotten War

Benjamin Young

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

Yong-ho Ch'oe

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

Justin Jesty

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

Michael G. Chang

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

David McNeill and Justin McCurry

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

Herbert P. Bix

Showa History, Rising Nationalism, and the Abe Government

Yoshimi Yoshiaki

Reexamining the “Comfort Women” Issue An Interview with Yoshimi Yoshiaki. Intoduction by Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Jeremy Kuzmarov

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

Ota Masahide

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

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

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)

Roger Pulvers

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

Misook Lee

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

Miyazaki Hayao

Constitutional Amendment is Out of the Question

Rick Baldoz

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

Urashima Etsuko and Gavan McCormack

Okinawa’s “Darkest Year”

Jonathan Marshall

Dirty Wars: French and American Piaster Profiteering in Indochina, 1945-75

Brian Victoria and Narusawa Muneo

“War is a Crime”: Takenaka Shōgen and Buddhist Resistance in the Asia-Pacific War and Today

Andrew Gordon

Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905

Kirk A. Denton

Exhibiting the Past: China’s Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum

Cemil Aydin

Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010

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

Jordan Sand

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

Peter Dale Scott

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

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Addressing Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ Issue From an Academic Standpoint

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

Feng Jianyong

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

Brian Victoria

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