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2724	Mark Selden	Japanese and American War Atrocities, Historical Memory and Reconciliation: World War II to Today Read More
2716	Steve Rabson	Case Dismissed: Osaka Court Upholds Novelist Oe Kenzaburo for Writing that Japanese Military Ordered "Group Suicides" in Battle of Okinawa Read More
2712	David McNeill, John Junkerman	Freedom Next Time. Japanese Neonationalists Seek to Silence Yasukuni Film (UPDATED) Read More
2700	Jean Miyake Downey, Shinya Watanabe	Into the Atomic Sunshine: Shinya Watanabe's New York and Tokyo Exhibition on Post-War Art Under Article 9 Read More
2671	Takeshi MATSUDA	Soft Power: The U.S. Cultural Offensive and Japanese Intellectuals Read More
2638	Nakazawa Keiji	Barefoot Gen, The Atomic Bomb and I: The Hiroshima Legacy Read More
2632	Rumi SAKAMOTO	"Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?" Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensoron Read More
2625	Kamata Satoshi	Shattering Jewels: 110,000 Okinawans Protest Japanese State Censorship of Compulsory Group Suicides Read More
2597	C. Douglas Lummis, Toru UNO	Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture: An Exchange Read More
2593	Yoshizawa Tatsuhiko	The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal Read More
2547	Kirk A. Denton	Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity: Negotiating the Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums Read More
2532	Yuki TANAKA	Oda Makoto, Beheiren and 14 August 1945: Humanitarian Wrath against Indiscriminate Bombing Read More
2513	Sonia Ryang	The Tongue That Divided Life and Death. The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans. Read More
2477	Laura Hein, Akiko TAKENAKA	Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States Read More
2474	C. Douglas Lummis	Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture Read More
2468	David McNeill, Adam Lebowitz	Hammering Down the Educational Nail: Abe Revises the Fundamental law of Education Read More
2443	Akiko TAKENAKA	Enshrinement Politics: War Dead and War Criminals at Yasukuni Shrine Read More
2431	Kim Do-hyeong	The Kamikaze in Japanese and International Film Read More
2421	Brian Victoria	Karma, War and Inequality in Twentieth Century Japan Read More
2401	Takahashi Tetsuya	Yasukuni Shrine at the Heart of Japan's National Debate: History, Memory, Denial Read More
2373	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Japan's 'Comfort Women': It's time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word) Read More
2305	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Free Speech - Silenced Voices: The Japanese Media, the Comfort Women Tribunal, and the NHK Affair Read More
2272	Takahashi Tetsuya	The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine Read More
2270	Nakamura Ikemi	Relatives Hunt for Japanese War Dead: Remains of 1.2 Million MIAs Overseas Read More
2191	Mayor of Hiroshima , Mayor of Nagasaki	Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Declarations, 2006 Read More
2175	Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, John Junkerman	Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads Read More
1651	J. Sean Curtin	Japan s Imperial Succession Debate and Women s Rights Read More
1840	Nobumasa Tanaka	The Imperial Succession and Japanese Democracy: Citizens Court Challenge Denied Read More
2061	Awaya Kentaro	The Tokyo Tribunal, War Responsibility and the Japanese People Read More
1715	Prasenjit Duara	The New Imperialism and the Post-Colonial Developmental State: Manchukuo in comparative perspective Read More

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120	Hirose Takashi	Farewell to Nuclear Power – A Lecture on Fukushima　　原発を即時廃炉に Read More
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