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3274	Tanaka Sakai	Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam 官僚が隠す沖縄海兵隊グアム全移転 •Japanese original available Read More
3259	Geoff Wade	The Origins and Evolution of Ethnocracy in Malaysia Read More
3255	R Taggart Murphy	Is Japan Headed for a Fiscal Doomsday? Read More
3248	Sarah Schneewind	Clean Politics: Race and Class, Imperialism and Nationalism, Etiquette and Consumption in the Chinese and American Revolutions Read More
3221	Mark Caprio, Yu Jia	Legacies of Empire and Occupation: The Making of the Korean Diaspora in Japan Read More
3193	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Remembering the Unfinished Conflict: Museums and the Contested Memory of the Korean War Read More
3195	Kenneth Pomeranz	The Great Himalayan Watershed: Water Shortages, Mega-Projects and Environmental Politics in China, India, and Southeast Asia Read More
3180	Heather Bowen-Struyk	Why a Boom in Proletarian Literature in Japan? The Kobayashi Takiji Memorial and The Factory Ship Read More
3181	Yingjie Guo	Farewell to Class, except the Middle Class: The Politics of Class Analysis in Contemporary China Read More
3143	David McNeill, Matsutani Minoru, Alex Martin, Kamiya Setsuko, Hongo Jun	Lowering the Drawbridge of Fortress Japan: Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights of Children Read More
3144	Shirakawa Toru	Invasion in the Name of Humanitarian Aid: The US in Afghanistan Read More
3147	Lawrence Repeta	U.N. Committee Faults Japan Human Rights Performance, Demands Progress Report on Key Issues Read More
3088	John Walsh	The Rising Importance of Chinese Labour in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region Read More
3077	Jeff Kingston	After the Whirlwind: Post-Nargis Burma, the 2010 Elections and Prospects for Reform Read More
3060	Alex Calvo	Somali Piracy, International Customary Law, and the Dispatch of Japan's MSDF Read More
3062	Miyume TANJI	Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan Read More
3058	Norma Field	Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji's Cannery Ship Read More
3031	Andrew DeWit	Japan on the Brink of the Abyss? [Updated] Read More
3025	Urashima Etsuko	Opting for the "Irrational": Tokyo Brushes Aside Okinawan Court Order to End Awase Wetlands Reclamation Project Read More
3019	Katharine H.S. Moon	Military Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia Read More
3013	Katsuya HIRANO	The Politics of Colonial Translation: On the Narrative of the Ainu as a 'Vanishing Ethnicity' Read More
2988	Kosuke Takahashi	Soaring Yen Produces First Trade Deficit in 28 Years as Japanese Authorities Watch the US Read More
2976	Vijay Prashad	The Fires of Hate and the Failures of the State in South Asia Read More
2970	Hugo Dobson	The 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako G8 Summit: neither summit nor plummet Read More
2962	Mark Caprio	The Cold War Explodes in Kobe—”The 1948 Korean Ethnic School "Riots" and US Occupation Authorities Read More
2954	John Garnaut	Can Chinese Government Spending Avert Recession? A Report from Wenzhou Read More
2951	Andre Vltchek	The Cook Islands and the Pacific Island Nations: Will the Last Person Leaving Please Turn Off the Lights? Read More
2940	Nouriel Roubini	The Rising Risk of a Hard Landing in China: The Two Engines of Global Growth—U.S. and China—are Stalling. UPDATED Read More
2938	John Benson	The Development and Structure of Japanese Enterprise Unions Read More
2932	The Asahi Shimbun Culture Research Center	Japan's Entrenched Discrimination Toward Foreigners Read More

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