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…
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…
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…
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