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Robert Jacobs

The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene

Kimie Hara

Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in United States–Japan–China Relations

Roger Pulvers

Illusions of Self: The Life and Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku

Benjamin Young

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

Peter Hayes

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

Tomoko Akami

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

Mel Gurtov

China's Triangle Diplomacy

Peter Dale Scott

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

Margaret Mehl

Going Native, Going Global: The Violin in Modern Japan

Alicia Campi

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

Kuroshima Denji and Michael Bourdaghs

The Two-Sen Copper Coin

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)

Noam Chomsky

How Many Minutes to Midnight? On the Nuclear Era and Armageddon

Sahr Conway-Lanz

The Ethics of Bombing Civilians After World War II: The Persistence of Norms Against Targeting Civilians in the Korean War

Robert Jacobs

The Radiation That Makes People Invisible: A Global Hibakusha Perspective

Herbert P. Bix

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

Peter Dale Scott

The Dulles Brothers, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and the Fate of the Private Pre-War International Banking System

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

John W. Dower

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

Feng Jianyong

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

Jonathan Marshall

Cooking the Books: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962

Kimie Hara

From Cold War Thaws to the Arctic Thaw: The Changing Arctic and Its Security Implications for East Asia

Roger Cavazos and Peter Hayes

North Korean and US Nuclear Threats: Discerning Signals from Noise

Timothy A. Mousseau and Anders Pape Møller

Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Nuclear Accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl

Richard Falk

The 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War

JJ Suh and Taehyun Nam

Rethinking the Prospects for Korean Democracy in Light of the Sinking of the Cheonan and North-South Conflict

Geoffrey Gunn

The Passing of Sihanouk: Monarchic Manipulation and the Search for Autonomy in the Kingdom of Cambodia

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Bomb After Bomb: US Air Power and Crimes of War From World War II to the Present

Peter Dale Scott

Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars

Morton H. Halperin

A New Approach to Security in Northeast Asia: Breaking the Gridlock

Jon Mitchell

“Seconds Away From Midnight”: U.S. Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break Fifty Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962 -- −−１９６２５０

Piers Williamson

Plutonium and Japan’s Nuclear Waste Problem: International Scientists Call for an End to Plutonium Reprocessing and Closing the Rokkasho Plant−−

Afghan Peace Volunteers and C. Douglas Lummis

An Afghan Okinawa

Peter Dale Scott

The NATO Afghanistan War and US-Russian Relations: Drugs, Oil, and WarNATO−−

Gerhard Krebs

World War Zero? Re-assessing the Global Impact of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05０？１９０４−１９０５

Gavan McCormack

North Korea's 100th – Celebrations Gone Awry１００−−

Peter Lee

Uranium Boom and Plutonium Bust: Russia, Japan, China and the World−−，

Kimie Hara

The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Frontier Problems in the Regional Order in East Asia: A Sixty Year Perspective−−６０

Eelke P. Kraak

The Geopolitics of Hydropower in Central Asia: the Syr Darya −−

Gavan McCormack

North Korea's 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?１００−−

Peter Hayes

Global Perspectives on Nuclear Safety and Security After 3-11３．１１

Rüdiger Frank and Bruce Cumings

North Korea’s Dynastic Succession

Bruce Cumings

Dominion From Sea to Sea: America's Pacific Ascendancy

Ran Zwigenberg

“The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power１９５６

Richard Falk

War, War Crimes, Power and Justice: Toward a Jurisprudence of Conscience−−

Urashima Etsuko, Sakurai Kunitoshi and Gavan McCormack

Okinawa, New Year 2012: Tokyo’s Year End Surprise Attack

Rüdiger Frank

North Korea after Kim Jong Il: The Kim Jong Un era and its challenges