Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands that they recognize and
apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses …

Apology diplomacy promises to assuage historical grievances held by foreign publics, yet in
practice appears to ignite domestic backlash, raising questions about its efficacy. This article …

ABSTRACT After 60 years maintaining Self-Defense Forces rather than a normal military,
Japan is moving towards exercising collective self-defence, long restricted by interpretations …

Since the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, transitional justice (TJ) procedures have
been cast in terms of emotion: disgust, horror, revenge, and remorse. For contemporary TJ …

Over the past decades, an increasing number of countries have apologized for human rights
violations in the recent or distant past. Although this has led to considerable debate about …

This article analyzes different attitudes of Japanese governments regarding official
apologies towards China and Korea for Japan's imperialist past. It demonstrates how the …

This article examines some of the complexities of the apology–forgiveness nexus within the
context of intergroup apologies by church and state for historical institutional abuse (HIA) …

OREA'S RECENT HISTORY HAS BEEN MARKED BY AN EX-tremely dynamic process, with
multiple political transitions: Japanese colonialism (1910–1945), the US military occupation …

This book provides a much-needed gendered reading to the increasingly important practice
of political apology. Engaging in depth with two cases of interstate apologies for conflict …

The so-called age of apology has led to a burgeoning literature on political apologies in
international relations, centering on state officials' recognition of historical transgressions …