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Category: War Crimes

history and memory…

Notes on the Sinchon Massacre

16 May 2015
The death of North Korean civilians at Sinchon is significant on a few levels. On the one hand, it calls our attention to the always fractious topic of war crimes…
history and memory…

Pu Yi as Witness

12 Apr 201512 Apr 2015
In his 1946 testimony at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trials), Pu Yi, the former Emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, proved to be…
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…
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…
Japan…

On Heartbreak, and Bix on Hirohito

30 Sep 201430 Sep 2014
In our culture of oversharing and social media, there is such an excess of verbiage that the words 'must read' or 'essential' have basically lost their meaning. The same is…
East Asian modernity…

Pan-Asianism and the Japanese Wartime Empire

9 Jun 201412 Mar 2016
This past spring, upon the invitation of Peter Anderson, I gave a lecture to all of the first-year History students at Leeds University on the following topic, as part of…
Art…

Enemies and Allies in North Korean Art and Archives, 1948-1952

29 Mar 201429 Mar 2014
This is the introduction to a paper which I prepared for an Association of Asian Studies panel on captured wartime documents in Korea, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,…
Korean War…

Leaflets from the Sky

26 Mar 2014
The UN Commission of Inquiry’s up-close-and-personal warning to Kim Jong-un may have been bold, but it was hardly unprecedented. In October 1950, US/UN field commander Douglas MacArthur dumped leaflets all…
North Korea…

North Korea and China’s Response to the UN Commission of Inquiry Report

25 Mar 2014
North Korea has ever been the subject of journalistic inquiry, but in the past couple of years things seem to have hit a kind of new high point. Likewise, public consciousness in…

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