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Gavan McCormack

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

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

Roger Pulvers

'Do we have peace now?' poem by Okinawa teen Chinen Masaru

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

Lawrence Repeta

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

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

Katherine Muzik and William B.C. Chang

The Sense of Sacred: Mauna Kea and Oura Bay

Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan

Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia, and Weighing Their Implications

Jon Mitchell

Vietnam: Okinawa's Forgotten War

Hamish McDonald

The Wired Seas of Asia: China, Japan, the US and Australia

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

Oguma Eiji

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

Rowena Ward

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

Gavan McCormack

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

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

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

Masako Shinjo Summers Robbins and Steve Rabson

My Story: A Daughter Recalls the Battle of Okinawa

Michael G. Chang

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

FEATURE

Alexander Brown and Vera Mackie

Introduction: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan

Andrew DeWit

Komatsu, Smart Construction, Creative Destruction, and Japan’s Robot Revolution ､

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

Peter Hayes

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

Gavan McCormack

Storm Ahead: Okinawa's Outlook for 2015

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

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 （）

Peter Dale Scott

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

Andrew DeWit

Japan’s Resilient, Decarbonizing and Democratic Smart Communities

Gavan McCormack

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

Ota Masahide

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