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Volume 4 | Issue 12

Free Speech – Silenced Voices: The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Militarization of Space and U.S. Global Dominance: the China Connection

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

From Flags of Our Fathers to Letters From Iwo Jima: Clint Eastwood’s Balancing of Japanese and American Perspectives

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Thinking the Unthinkable: Toward Japanese Nuclear Armament?

Yoshibumi Wakamiya

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Chinese Advance in the South Pacific: Entrepreneurs Undaunted by Papua New Guinea Dangers

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Ryuichi SAKAMOTO: From Bach to Rock to Pop . . . and the Fate of the Corporate Earth

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s FTA Drive, East Asian Regional Leadership and the China Challenge

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Donald Richie: A lifetime’s observations of Japan

Alexander Jacoby

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Neonationalist Offensive and the Military

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Overfishing to Overconsume. Lure of money set to empty the oceans

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Live Ammo: Testing of Biochemical Agents on U.S. Sailors

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The History of U.S.Torture

Alfred W. McCoy

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Oil and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Japan-Iran Partnership in Azadegan

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Education Law Reform and the Hearts of Children

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional Development

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Christmas Bombing of Vietnam

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Case for Japanese Constitutional Revision Assessed

December 2, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 12

Japan’s Wartime Sex Slave Exhibition Exposes Darkness in East Timor

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation! The Deterioration of Japan’s Fundamental Law of Education

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The New Cold War and US-Russian Relations

Stephen F. Cohen

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

The Nanjing Massacre: Changing Contours of History and Memory in Japan, China, and the U.S.

Takashi YOSHIDA

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 12

Literature, Ideology and Japan’s Revised Education Law: Kinoshita Junji’s Yuzuru

Takashima Nobuyoshi

December 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Political Economy of Sanctions Against North Korea

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine

Takahashi Tetsuya

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Sino-Russian Arms Dilemma

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

North Korea’s Nuclear Test–Bush’s Godchild?

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Perilous Journeys: North Korean Famine and Flight to China and Beyond

The International Crisis Group

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society

A. Kashiwagi, Christian Caryl

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Chinese Labor Law Reform: Guaranteeing Worker Rights in the Age of Globalism

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

North Dakota Braves and the Atomic Bomb: Priest and Two Veterans in WMD Protest Sentenced for Prayer for Peace (Updated)

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Japan’s New Miracle Economy: Neoliberalism and the Poverty of Wealth

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Okinawan Election With US Base Plan in the Balance

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan’s Military First Politics

Gavan McCormack

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

By What Power am I Called Hither? The Impunity of Kings and Presidents

Geoffrey Robertson

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Goodbye Iran, Hello Iraq: Japan’s and China’s Oil Prospects in the Balance

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Vietnam’s Roaring Economy, the World Stage and the US

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Bush May Face Religious Wrath in Indonesia

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Maritime Interdiction of North Korean WMD Trade: Toward a Second Korean War?

Mark J. Valencia

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

George Bush’s Visit to Indonesia, the Indonesia-US Relationship and the 1965 Coup

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

This Is the New Japan: Immigrants are Transforming a Once Insular Society

A. Kashiwagi, Christian Caryl

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

The Ethnic Detective and the Atomic Bomb: A Japanese American Mystery series

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Relatives Hunt for Japanese War Dead: Remains of 1.2 Million MIAs Overseas

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

Burden Sharing, Security and Equity in the Straits of Malacca

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 11

An Unyielding Demand for Justice: Wartime Chinese Laborers Sue Japan for Compensation

Norimitsu ONISHI

November 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The “Integrated Community”: Toward the Transformation of the Hikikomori Archipelago Japan

Asano Shirou, Futagami Nouki

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Still Taboo After All These Years: Japan’s New Imperial Heir and the Media

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Emerging Russian Giant: The US, Eurasia and Global Geopolitics

F William Engdahl

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Chinese Discovery of America: Gavin Menzies and 1421

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Russian Energy Maneuvers Challenge Japan: The Sakhalin Ploy

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

North Korean Famine, Refugees, and International Aid

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Supranationalism and Mythologies of American Power

October 2, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 10

Time of Reckoning: The North Korean Bomb, the United States, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

Alexandre Y. Mansourov

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Japan’s Missing Economic Link: Lagging Consumption and the China Factor

Stephen S. Roach

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Cold Comfort: The Japan Lobby Blocks Congressional Resolution on World War II Sex Slaves

Ken Silverstein

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Tokyo Homes May Sit on World War II Mass Grave

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Duree Perspective

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Russian Energy Geostrategy Redefines Relations with the US and EU

M K Bhadrakumar

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

After the Bomb: North Korea Isn’t Our Problem

Anatol Lieven, John Hulsman

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

“Back to the Stone Age”: Origins of a Cliche

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The New Pacific Wall: The U.S., Australia, and New Zealand Isolate and Divide Small Insular Nations

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Stalker State: North Korean Proliferation and the End of American Nuclear Hegemony

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Did North Korea Successfully Conduct a Nuclear Test? A Technical Analysis

Jungmin Kang, Peter Hayes

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Time to End the Korean War: The Korean Nuclear Crisis in the Era of Unification

Sheila Miyoshi Jager

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Inoue Hisashi: Crusader with a Pen

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

The Northern Territories Impasse, Russia and Japanese Dependence on the U.S.

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 10

Against the System: Antiwar Writing of Kuroshima Denji

October 2, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Struggle for the Japanese Soul: Komori Yoshihisa, Sankei Shimbun, and the JIIA controversy

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Australia, Pacific Islanders and the Politics of Independence

Hamish McDonald

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Remembered and the Forgotten: Slighting the firebombing victims of Japan’s Pacific War

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Legal Categories, Demographic Change and Japan’s Korean Residents in the Long Twentieth Century

Hiromitsu INOKUCHI, Kim Tae-young, Yoshiko Nozaki

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Epistemology of Torture: 24 and Japanese Proletarian Literature

Heather Bowen-Struyk

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

North Dakota Braves and the Atomic Bomb: Priest and Two Veterans in WMD Protest Prayer for Peace (Updated)

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Japan Intelligence Satellite Launch Pushes the Boundaries of Self-defense: the North Korea Connection

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Satsuki Ina’s From a Silk Cocoon, Japanese-American Incarceration Resistance Narratives, and the Post 9/11 Era

Jean Miyake Downey

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Writers From the Other Asia: the two Koreas

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: The Troubling Legacy of the San Francisco Treaty

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Japan Sinking? Sequel to 1970s Novel finds Japan Sunk and the Japanese Scattered

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Foreign policy as a ‘fight’: Abe and the future of East Asian relations

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Officer’s Refusal of Iraq Deployment Divides the Japanese American Community: The Case of Lt. Watada

Charles Burress

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

North Korea and the International Politics of Famine

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Geopolitics of Energy: Russia sets the pace in energy race

M K Bhadrakumar

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Time Has Come When Anyone Could Become a “Health Care Refugee”

Yabuki Toshihito

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Samurai Way of Baseball and the National Character Debate

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Yasukuni Shrine Imposes Silence on Bereaved Families

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Japan and China: The Next Fifty Years

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

The Legacy of Long-Gone States: China, Korea and the Koguryo Wars

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Japan’s ‘war on terror’ should start at home

Wakamiya Yoshibumi

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Names, Bones and Unpaid Wages (1): Reparations for Korean Forced Labor in Japan

William Underwood

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Organizing Wal-Mart: The Chinese Trade Union at a Crossroads [Updated]

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 9

Names, Bones and Unpaid Wages (2): Seeking Redress for Korean Forced Labor

William Underwood

September 4, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Japan Joins the Energy Race in Central Asia

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Japan Foreign Minister’s Visit to POW Remembrance Service Backfires

H Matsubara, William Underwood

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Locating Cities in Global Networks: Tokyo and Regional Structures of Interdependence

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Japan and China Race for African Oil

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

NHK’s Finest Hour: Japan’s Official Record of Chinese Forced Labor

William Underwood

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Nagasaki Principle

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Crime and Responsibility: War, the state, and Japanese society

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Russia’s Great Game in Central Asia

M K Bhadrakumar

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Nationalism, Historical Memory & Contemporary Conflicts in the Asia Pacific: the Yasukuni Phenomenon, Japan, and the United States

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Japanese War Orphans and the Challenges of Repatriation in Post-Colonial East Asia

Mariko Asano Tamanoi

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Sinking of Japan

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Future of Korea: An Asia-Pacific Perspective

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Democratization of Missile Technology and the Future of War

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Asia Embraces Nuclear Power: at what cost?

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Selective Pain: Kidnapping, Contemporary Japan and Media Obsession

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Australia’s New Security Bond With Japan

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

New Facts about US Payoff to Japan’s Biological Warfare Unit 731

Tsuneishi Kei-ichi

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Asia’s Coming Water Wars

Chietigj Bajpaee

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

East Asia’s Dollars

R. Taggart Murphy

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Asia’s Coming Water Wars

Chietigj Bajpaee

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

What Price Security? Japan, Britain and the threat of terrorism

M Sasaki, S Inada, Y Kanno

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The United States and the Japanese Mengele: Payoffs and Amnesty for Unit 731

Christopher Reed

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

“The Trial of Mr. Hyde” and Victors’ Justice

Richard Minear, Takeyama Michio

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

From Backwater to Powerhouse. China’s northeast and Northeast Asia on a roll

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

China in Southeast Asia: The Limits of Power

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Great Equalizer. Lessons From Iraq and Lebanon

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Arson: Yasukuni Shrine, Terror and the Future of Japanese Democracy

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The United States and the Japanese Mengele: Payoffs and Amnesty for Unit 731

Christopher Reed

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Criminal States: Soprano vs. Baritone – North Korea and the US

Gavan McCormack

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

Invisible Immigrants: Undocumented Migration and Border Controls in Early Postwar Japan

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

The Immunity of Non-Combatants and the Myth of Good Intentions: Sixty-One Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 8

How Many and Where Were the Nukes? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

August 14, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 7

Japan’s Political and Constitutional Crossroads

David McNeill, Gavan McCormack, John Junkerman

July 13, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 7

What North Korea’s Missile Test Means

July 13, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 6

Japan’s Worker Co-operative Movement into the 21st Century

June 1, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 6

Security in the Straits of Malacca

June 1, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 6

Race-Making and Colonial Violence in the U.S. Empire: The Philippine-American War as Race War

June 1, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

“The North Korean Problem”, Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy

Gavan McCormack

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

The New Face of the South Korea-U.S. Alliance and the North Korea Question

Selig S. Harrison

May 6, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 5

The Rails Are Geopolitics: Linking North and South Korea and Beyond

Georgy Bulychev, Yonhap News

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Now Is the Time to Reclaim Rural Japan: Toward Societal Renewal

Uchihashi Katsuto

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Japan Stares into a Demographic Abyss

May 6, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 5

Japanese Business Group Calls on P.M. to Halt Yasukuni Visits

Yomiuri Shimbun

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

The Imaginary Geography of a Nation and its De-nationalized Narrative: Japan and the Korean Experience

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Kaesung Ignites U.S.-SK Tensions: Low wages and support for North Korea raise questions

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Youth Employment in Japan’s Economic Recovery: ‘Freeters’ and ‘NEETs’

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

The Martyrdom: Children and the Battle of Okinawa

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Views of Japanese Ethnic Identity Amongst Undergraduates in Hokkaido

Mami AOYAMA, Mark J. Hudson

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

South Korea-Japan Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute: Toward Confrontation

Michael Weinstein

May 6, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 5

China’s Port Development and Shipping Competition in East Asia

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Sue Dow and Monsanto in US Court

Aaron Glantz, Ngoc Nguyen

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Shutdown: US Financial Allegations Toward North Korea

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Family Skeletons: Japan s Foreign Minister and Forced Labor by Koreans and Allied POWs Japanese Translation Available

Christopher Reed

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

The Retrial of the Yokohama Incident: A Six Decade Battle for Human Dignity

Nishimura Hideki

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Family Skeletons: Japan s Foreign Minister and Forced Labor by Koreans and Allied POWs Japanese Translation Available

Christopher Reed

May 6, 2006

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Volume 4 | Issue 5

Exporting the American Model: Markets and Democracy

Chalmers Johnson

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

Japan and the Intensifying Global Whaling Debate

David McNeill, Ian Mather

May 6, 2006

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Research Article

Volume 4 | Issue 5

The “Second Plateau”: Japan’s Economy and Structures of Inequality

May 6, 2006

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