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…
American Foreign Policy… Questions for the Day 11 Oct 2010 Generating questions should be the goal of more active blogging, practice of academic freedom, and production of scholarship. So my first question is: Why the hell are all the links…
American Foreign Policy Mini-Xinhua 17 Jan 201018 Jan 2010 UPDATE: Xinhua all of a sudden today announces it is revamping its English-language web service as "part of its effort to follow the latest trend of Internet development and help…
Chinese nationalism… December 7 in Chongqing 7 Dec 20097 Dec 2009 This morning I gave one of those lectures I enjoy delivering because it wakes people up and reconnects me with my Sino-Japanese research: a survey of aerial bombing of civilian…
North Korea… French Dispatches from Tokyo: Philippe Pons on North Korean Provocations 1 Jul 2009 Why Read the European Press re: East Asia? A Justification I operate on assumptions that more sources, even flawed ones, are better than fewer. (I also believe, unlike the classic…