history and memory… Reading the Absences in Ramseyer’s “Comfort Women” Provocation 19 Feb 202120 Feb 2021 A new publication on Japan’s wartime system of military prostitution (‘Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,' International Review of Law and Economics [December 2020]) has generated a whirlwind of…
history and memory… Women and the Workplace in Japan, Abe and the Emperor, Japan and Brexit 4 Feb 2019 https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1091860304831500288 https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1092321873390718976 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1092376576434556929 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1070591972937793536 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/590090971079139328 https://twitter.com/annafifield/status/1088602316561891329 https://twitter.com/SasakawaUSA/status/1090311153107038208 https://twitter.com/JamesDJBrown/status/1090424747739869184 https://twitter.com/AsiaSocietyKR/status/1089844656228233217 https://twitter.com/Paul_Kreitman/status/1090222125527584768 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1091975072762548224 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1087992146416861186 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1092375936471891969 https://twitter.com/HarvardUSJapan/status/1090620111025856512
EU-East Asia relations… Documents on Crown Prince Hirohito’s visit to the United Kingdom in 1921 29 Jan 201830 Jan 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMGmi7GLro0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UPAoI20Pt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBeElh81rBQ Historian Herbert Bix describes Hirohito's long voyage to the United Kingdom in 1921 as a number of things: it was a test of the court and the…
Japan… On History and the “Comfort Women” Debate 12 Oct 201512 Oct 2015 As illuminated by recent anniversaries and commemorations, history is both a malleable plaything and an obsessive object of dispute for states in Northeast Asia. In Tokyo, Abe Shinzo and his Liberal Democratic Party rework histories of colonial expansion into halcyon inspiration…
history and memory… Last Call for Abe Shinzo Congressional Speech Op-eds 17 May 2015 The Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi threw down the gauntlet in The Diplomat on May 7 in a piece pointedly entitled 'Stop Obsessing over Abe's Congressional Speech.' The conclusion read as follows: Continuing…
history and memory… Comment on the Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan 7 May 2015 Richard Lloyd Parry, Tokyo Bureau Chief for The Times (London), kindly alerted me to an open letter recently published by a large number of academics nicely timed to follow on the heels…
history and memory… Keeping Tabs on Revisionist Groups Active on the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue 3 Apr 2015 Gaining even a cursory familiarity with the statements and logic of some right-wing revisionists groups in Japan is a salutary experience. While most Japanese people (judging from polling data) find…
China… Old Chapters, New Chapters: The Memory Wars in East Asia 17 Mar 201517 Mar 2015 From the very beginning of the so-called ‘post war,’ the territorial and temporal parameters of the memory wars between China and Japan were never drawn particularly cleanly. The war ended…
EU-East Asia relations… Angela Merkel and Japan’s Wartime Past 11 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 The German Chancellor was in Tokyo for a couple of eventful days. Although Merkel sees Abe Shinzo regularly, she noted before leaving that she has not been to Japan, the country that…
history and memory… Lisa Yoneyama in Toronto; Readings on the ‘Comfort Women’ System 7 Mar 20157 Mar 2015 Yesterday I had a chance to meet briefly in Toronto with Lisa Yoneyama, who is one of the most prevalent scholars working today on issues of transnational war memory politics…
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