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
Cultural Politics… Karl Haushofer and Japan (1): Geographers and Intellectual Links into the Fascist Period 6 Mar 20186 Mar 2018 This is the first in a multi-post project on German geographers and intellectuals and their interaction with Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, with a nominal focus on Manchuria and…
China… Wartime History and Beijing’s Response to the New Defence Minister in Tokyo 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016 In the wake of the Upper House elections in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed a reshuffling of his cabinet. As described by Japan hand Michael Cucek, it was…
China… Report on Opium in China from the German Embassy in Tokyo, 1944 2 Mar 2016 On June 8, 1944, the German Embassy in Tokyo sent a report back to the Auswärtiges Amt, or Foreign Ministry. Unlike so many other files dealing with foreign affairs, at…
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…
China… Opium and National Humiliation: Another Commemoration 2 Sep 20153 Sep 2015 On June 8, 1944, the German Embassy in Tokyo sent a report back to the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Ministry). Unlike so many other files dealing with foreign affairs, at this…
China… On the ‘Cairo Declaration’ Fiasco 18 Aug 2015 While the tendency of the CCP to insert itself at the main junctures of Chinese history in the 20th century is anything but new, there has been an increasing alignment…
Korean War… The Bombs Kept Falling in the Wake of Hiroshima 8 Aug 20158 Aug 2015 In a Saturday essay for the Yorkshire Post, a very fine newspaper based in Leeds, I argue that there is more continuity than rupture in the historical legacy of the US…
American Foreign Policy… Atrocities, Insults, and “Jeep Girls”: Depictions of the U.S. Military in China, 1945-1949 13 May 201514 May 2015 Controversy continues to surround various military occupations in East Asia in the 20th century. Specifically, the connection between military occupation and sex work carried out by women the occupied countries remains…
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…
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