China and Japan are the protagonists in most discussions about the unsettled legacies of
Northeast Asia's twentieth century, which makes sense. Although we will never know for …

Japan's nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly
visible ways. Hall investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan's ongoing …

Female empowerment is a prerequisite for a just and sustainable developed society. Being
the most developed non‐western country, J apan offers an instructive window onto concerns …

NATIONALISM, HISTORY, AND politics in East Asia are inextricably intertwined. But 2008
may mark a watershed. In March, Taiwan will hold a presidential election in which the …

Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast Asia. Escalation in
such conflicts often stems from a widely shared public perception that the territory in …

Yasukuni Shrine resonates with talismanic symbolism for both its critics and proponents and
that is precisely why it is so controversial within Japan and between Japan and its …

Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved
in historical denial. Tony Taylor surveys major cases in twentieth and twenty-first-century …

This paper discusses the Japanese history textbook controversy over 'comfort women'to
tease out insights that help globalize the existing theoretical discussion of politics of school …

Abstract In August 17, 2013, the Asahi Shimbun discovered that copies of Hadashi no Gen
(Barefoot Gen), an internationally renowned manga about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima …

When I visited Ishinomaki nearly three years after the 11 March 2011 triple disasters—
earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—former residents of the city and parishioners of …