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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?

Katharine McGregor

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

Ellen Sebring

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

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

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

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David T. Johnson

Wrongful Convictions and the Culture of Denial in Japanese Criminal Justice

Tomoko Akami

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

Roger Pulvers

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

Herbert P. Bix

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

Sven Steinmo, Ismail Emre Bayram and Andrew DeWit

The Bumble Bee and the Chrysanthemum: Comparing Sweden and Japan’s Responses to Financial Crisis

Peter Dale Scott

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

Tyrell Haberkorn

Hannah Arendt, Nidhi Eoseewong, and the Spectre of Totalitarianism in Thailand

Peter Dale Scott

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

Brian Victoria

D.T. Suzuki, Zen and the Nazis

Jonathan Marshall

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

Jeremy Kuzmarov

The Responsibility of Intellectuals Redux: Humanitarian Intervention and the Liberal Embrace of War in the Age of Clinton, Bush and Obama

Timothy A. Mousseau and Anders Pape Møller

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

Andrew DeWit

The US Military, Green Energy, and the SPIDERS at Pearl Harbor

John Gittings

History of Peace Thought East and West: its Lessons for Today

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

Caroline S. Hau

Becoming “Chinese”—But What “Chinese”?—in Southeast Asia−−

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−−

Peter Hayes

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

Bruce Cumings

Dominion From Sea to Sea: America's Pacific Ascendancy

Andrew DeWit

Megasolar Japan: The Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear Power−−

Richard Falk

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

Sheldon Garon

Postwar Japan's National Salvation

Peter Lee

A New ARMZ Race: The Road to Russian Uranium Monopoly Leads Through MongoliaARMZ−−

Peter Dale Scott

The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11（）：9.11 *Japanese translation available

Andrew DeWit

Fallout From the Fukushima Shock: Japan’s Emerging Energy Policy−−

Stephen Epstein and Rumi Sakamoto

The True Origins of Pizza: Irony, the Internet and East Asian Nationalisms−−

Peter Dale Scott

Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites−−

Sergey Radchenko

Japanese Business, Soviet Development, and Territorial Conflict, 1975-1985１９７５−１９８５

Peter Dale Scott

Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists−−

Peter Lee

The Labyrinthian International Geopolitics of the Libyan Conflict

Vanessa Ward

“Lifelong homework”: Chō Takeda Kiyoko’s unofficial diplomacy and postwar Japan-Asia relations−−（）

Chris Busby and Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Fukushima is Worse than Chernobyl – on Global Contamination

Madoka Futamura

Japanese Societal Attitudes Towards the Tokyo Trial: A Contemorary Perspective−−

Murakami Haruki

Speaking as an Unrealistic Dreamer

Peter Dale Scott

Coming to Jakarta and Deep Politics: How Writing a Poem Enabled Me to Write American War Machine (An Essay on Liberation)−−（)

Sakai Yasuyuki

Japan’s Decline as a Robotics Superpower: Lessons From Fukushima −−

Matthew Penney and Mark Selden

What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima？

Karel van Wolferen

Japan, Europe and The Dangerous Fantasy of American Leadership

Herbert P. Bix

The Middle East Revolutions in Historical Perspective: Egypt, Occupied Palestine, and the United States−−

Mark Selden

Electronic Publication and the Critical Intellectual in the Post-Print Era: An Asia-Pacific Perspective−− •Korean translation available

Tanaka Sakai

How Long Will US Forces Continue to Occupy Japan and Korea? China, the US and the New Division of Power in the Asia-Pacific •Japanese original available

David Adam Stott

South Korea's Global Nuclear Ambitions