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Introducing Gavan McCormack

Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor at Australian National University in Canberra, a coordinator at Japan Focus, and author of Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe and Client State: Japan in the American Embrace.

List of Articles

Title	ID
Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches [Updated] 　沖縄市長選ーー名護市より　[Korean translation available]	3291
The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama [Japanese translation]	3250
The Road to Copenhagen [Korean and Japanese translations available]	3238
History Too Long Denied: Japan's Unresolved Colonial Past and Today's North Korea Problem	3188
Security Council Condemnation of North Korean "UFO" Deepens Korean Crisis	3121
Hillary in Japan - The Enforcer	3059
Grappling with Cold War History: Korea's Embattled Truth and Reconciliation Commission	3056
Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years [Japanese text available]	3011
Facing the Past: War and Historical Memory in Japan and Korea [Korean text available]	2983
The Okinawan Alternative to Japan's Dependent Militarism [Japanese translation available]	2920
Korea at 60 [Korean translation available]	2869
August Nuclear Thoughts: the New Proliferation (Available in Korean)	2849
Okinawa Says "No" to US-Japan Base Plan	2825
"Conservatism" and "Nationalism". The Japan Puzzle	2786
Japan as a Plutonium Superpower	2602
North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order	2555
Abe and Okinawa: Collision Course?	2512
Japan as a Nuclear State	2488
Fitting Okinawa into Japan the "Beautiful Country"	2437
A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing: The Prospect of Ending the 20th Century in East Asia	2354
Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea	2339
The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan's Military First Politics	2275
Criminal States: Soprano vs. Baritone - North Korea and the US	2189
Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads	2175
North Korea Coming in from the cold?	2158
Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring	2132
War and Japan's Memory Wars: the media and the globalization of consciousness	2123
Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11	2111
Japan's Sixtieth	2108
The Umbrella and the Mushroom: Realism and Extremism on North Korea	2103
A North Korean Visitor to the White House	2096
Making Sense of the Korean Crisis: An Interview	2095
Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance	2088
Disputed Bones: Japan, North Korea and the 'Nature' Controversy	1949
North Korea and the US "Strategic Decision"	1925
Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion	1924
"The North Korean Problem", Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy	1909
The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations	1894
Looking Back at the Occupation -- The US and Japan over 60 Years	1863
Sunshine, Containment, War: Korean Options	1779
Tide Change in Saga, Japan	1681
The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa s Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence	1592
Community and Identity in Northeast Asia: 1930s and Today	1591
Terror in Japan	1570
Minamata: The Irresponsibility of the Japanese State	1559