Korean War… Koreans and Military Training in Japan, 1947-48 16 Apr 2015 Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in a single box at the US National Archives -- otherwise known as RG331 (Allied Operational and Occupation HQ), SCAP Government Section, Administrative Division,…
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… Post-Soulevement 17 Mar 2011 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. …
Chinese nationalism… Competing Visions of Japan on the Huanqiu BBS 7 Apr 2010 Huanqiu Shibao's BBS world isn't necessarily representative of the upper crust of netizen opinion, but, since, as China Digital Times reminds us, the internet is becoming increasingly Chinese, it behooves…
China… Chinese Cyber-Nationalism and Online Identity among Chinese Youth 18 Dec 2009 China Media Research, a peer-reviewed online journal which is a cooperative venture between Zhejiang University and Michigan State University, carries two excellent and worthwhile articles in its latest issue. Li…
North Korea-Japan relations… Notes on Japan 14 Dec 200914 Dec 2009 Japan has been rather quiet in the U.S. news of late, but a few things have happened which may be worthy of attention: 1. The secret terms of the 1960…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Asia’s Ahab: North Korea, Japan, and Environmental Geopolitics in NE Asia 22 Nov 200926 Nov 2009 People who fish, who brave the ocean, who create seriographie of fish, who take pictures of fish, who quantify fish populations -- all of these people have a special place…
China Himalayan Shadows 16 Nov 2009 In addition to the change of tone on North Korea, one of the more interesting trends in recent years in Chinese foreign policy has been the increasingly strident tone against…
US-Japan relations Obama in Tokyo: Initial Reactions 13 Nov 2009 For someone like myself whose main point of reference of U.S.-Japan relations is the postwar occupation (1945-1952) and the later 1960 Security Treaty (or Anpo), there is something a bit…
Japan… On Megumi Yokota: Doggerel One 15 Sep 200915 Sep 2009 Japan is hatin' on DPRK Koizumi's plume done led the way When Kim abducted you say? The DPRK gotta send Megumi home.// //But they said she killed herself in a…
