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2972	Philip Seaton	The G8 Summit as "Local Event" in the Hokkaido Media Read More
2973	Lukasz Zablonski	The Hokkaido Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Initiatives: The "Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society" Symposium Read More
2962	Mark Caprio	The Cold War Explodes in Kobe—”The 1948 Korean Ethnic School "Riots" and US Occupation Authorities Read More
2956	Nick Turse	A My Lai a Month: How the US Fought the Vietnam War Read More
2958	Herbert P. Bix, Tahara Soichiro	The Tamogami Debacle: Dismissal of a Japanese General and the Danger of Indignation Read More
2952	Kosuke Takahashi, Kaneko Kotaro, Tokuro Inokuma	Fighting for Peace After War: Japanese War Veterans recall the war and their peace activism after repatriation Read More
2953	David McNeill, Yomiuri	Unmasking Capital Punishment: A Wave of Executions, The Yomiuri and Japan's Death Penalty Read More
2945	Herbert P. Bix	Tamogami's World: Japan's Top Soldier Reignites Conflict Over the Past [Japanese, Korean and Czech translations available] Read More
2943	Abe Shuichi	Japan's 'Antiterror' Debate Neglects the Suffering of the Afghan People Read More
2941	Tong Kim	The Deterioration of the Inter-Korean Relationship Read More
2934	Wada Haruki	Maritime Asia and the Future of a Northeast Asia Community Read More
2933	C. Douglas Lummis	The US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawan Anger. A DEBATE Read More
2932	The Asahi Shimbun Culture Research Center	Japan's Entrenched Discrimination Toward Foreigners Read More
2929	Maaike Okano-Heijmans	Japan as Spoiler in the Six-Party Talks: Single-Issue Politics and Economic Diplomacy Towards North Korea Read More
2920	Gavan McCormack	The Okinawan Alternative to Japan's Dependent Militarism [Japanese translation available] Read More
2906	Matthew R. Augustine	Border-Crossers and Resistance to US Military Rule in the Ryukyus, 1945-1953 Read More
2868	Richard Tanter	The Maritime Self-Defence Force Mission in the Indian Ocean: Afghanistan, NATO and Japan's Political Impasse Read More
2860	Adam Lebowitz, Y. Tawara	The Hearts of Children: Morality, Patriotism, and the New Curricular Guidelines Read More
2850	Wakamiya Yoshibumi	Takeshima/Tokto, Nationalism and Reconciliation: Who is smiling at the latest row? Read More
2847	Heonik Kwon	The Korean War Mass Graves Read More
2848	Do Khiem, Kim Sung-soo	Crimes, Concealment and South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Read More
2846	Geoffrey Gunn, Carmel Budiarjo	Closed Book or Open Book on Indonesia and Timor-Leste? The Commission of Truth and Friendship Report on 1999 HR Violations Read More
2826	Bruce Cumings	The South Korean Massacre at Taejon: New Evidence on US Responsibility and Coverup Read More
2827	Charles J. Hanley, J.S. Chang	Summer of Terror: At least 100,000 said executed by Korean ally of US in 1950 [with interactive video] Read More
2825	Gavan McCormack, T Matsumoto	Okinawa Says "No" to US-Japan Base Plan Read More
2806	China Hand	Stigmata: The Passion of Tenzin Tsundue, the Tibetan Uprising and China Read More
2798	Timothy Brook	Collaboration in the History of Wartime East Asia Read More
2802	Timothy Brook	Collaboration in the Postwar Read More
2792	Laura Hein	The Cultural Career of the Japanese Economy: Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in Historical Perspective Read More
2786	Gavan McCormack	"Conservatism" and "Nationalism". The Japan Puzzle Read More

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