East Asia

The United States’ “Pivot to Asia” was the Barack Obama administration’s military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific.
China will not let the Asia-Pacific region turn into a hotspot for geopolitical conflict, and will defend its own sovereignty and integrity, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson declared on Monday.

The following is a photographic essay that is based on articles published for South Korean news outlet MinPlus by two men conducting a roof-top sit-in protest against KIA Motors to bring attention to the condition of temporary employees and KIA’s 

Seoul Court Delivers Shock ‘Comfort Women’ Verdict By , May 05, 2021
From Five Eyes to Six? Japan’s Push to Join the West’s Intelligence Alliance By , May 04, 2021
What to Make of China’s New Special Representative on Korean Peninsula Affairs By , April 29, 2021
China-South Korea Relations: Two Parallel Visits, or “We’ll Dance with Both of You” By , April 26, 2021
Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Dumping and the Summer Olympics in Japan in Question By , April 19, 2021
China Warns of Action over Japan’s Decision to Dump Radioactive Fukushima Water into the Sea By , April 15, 2021
Asia’s Problems Must be Solved by Asian Countries By , April 14, 2021
China Sent Its Carrier Near Japanese Waters because Tokyo and Washington’s Encroachment Unties Beijing’s Hands By , April 08, 2021
Will South Korea Become a QUAD+ Member? By , April 05, 2021
How the Cleanup of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Got So Expensive By and , April 05, 2021
On Malaysia and the DPRK Breaking of Diplomatic Relations By , March 30, 2021
The U.S. Pivot to Asia: Cold War Lessons from Vietnam for Today By , March 29, 2021
Early Meiji Diplomacy Viewed through the Lens of the International Treaties Culminating in the Annexation of the Ryukyus By , March 22, 2021
The Evolution of the East Asian Eco-Developmental State By and , March 17, 2021
COVID-19 and Girls’ Education in East Asia and Pacific By , March 17, 2021
The Current Situation Concerning the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands By , March 16, 2021
Fukushima Today: “I’m Glad that I Realized My Mistake before I Died.” By , March 15, 2021
Ex-PMs Call on Japan to ‘Eradicate’ Nuclear Power By , March 05, 2021
The Fallacy of North Korean Collapse By and , March 03, 2021
Transmitting Knowledge and Gaining Recognition: Chinese “Comfort Women” Reparation Trials in the 1990s and 2000s By , March 02, 2021
The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue, Freedom of Speech, and Academic Integrity: A Study Aid By , February 23, 2021
The Fukushima Quake May be an Echo of the 2011 Disaster — And a Warning for the Future By , February 15, 2021
Abe’s Womenomics Policy, 2013-2020: Tokenism, Gradualism, or Failed Strategy? By , February 12, 2021
Reopening the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Fifty-Four Years Later: As Recorded in the Documentary Video, Breaking the History of Silence By and , February 09, 2021
Secret Inter-Korean Nuke Cooperation Rumors Officially Blasted By , February 04, 2021
Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges for Mongolia By , February 02, 2021
Why Are Japan’s Leaders Clinging to Their Olympic Hopes? Their Political Fortunes Depend on It By , January 29, 2021
Stealth Fighters and Long-range Missiles: Japan’s Cabinet Greenlights Record-breaking Military Budget By , December 29, 2020
Why Japan Lags in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race By , December 19, 2020
This Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down By , December 18, 2020
Taiwanese Groups Protest Proposed Fukushima Water Dumping By , December 03, 2020
Homeward Bound: The Postwar Repatriation of Japanese Civilians in Shanghai, 1945-1948 By , December 01, 2020
Should Americans Die for the Senkaku Islands? Joe Biden Says Yes. By , November 27, 2020
First Reaction of the Leading Asian Countries to the Results of the US Elections By , November 19, 2020
Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances By , November 18, 2020
Japan Militarizes and Worries Russia and China By , November 17, 2020
Trade Deals Handing Japanese Seeds to Multinational Corporations By and , November 11, 2020
What Is the Shanghai Spirit? By , November 10, 2020
Daisy’s Story: Filipina Migrants and Other Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa By , November 09, 2020
New Film Explores U.S. Suppression of Key Footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki By , November 06, 2020
Trump Administration Considers Assembling ‘Asian NATO’ to Counter China By , November 05, 2020
Planning for War: Elite Staff Officers in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Road to World War II By , November 04, 2020
Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan: Remembering the Ukishima-maru Incident at Maizuru and Shimokita By and , November 04, 2020
Why the US Will Miss Out on a Southeast Asia Suga-high By , November 03, 2020
Video: Jeju: Island of Resistance By , October 21, 2020
Between a Forgotten Colony and an Abandoned Prefecture: Okinawa’s Experience of Becoming Japanese in the Meiji and Taishō Eras By , October 19, 2020
Forced Labour in Imperial Japan’s First Colony: Hokkaidō By , October 19, 2020
The Battlefield Experience of Japanese Soldiers in the Asia-Pacific War By and , October 07, 2020
The Emptiness of Japan’s Values Diplomacy in Asia By , October 07, 2020
Japan’s Streets of Rage: The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Uprising and the Origins of Contemporary Japan By , June 08, 2020
Abe Shinzo and Japan’s One-Strong (Ikkyo) State By , April 02, 2020
War, Rape and Patriarchy: The Japanese Experience By , January 03, 2020
“Yamazaki, Shoot Emperor Hirohito!” Okuzaki Kenzo’s Legal Action to Abolish Chapter One (The Emperor) of Japan’s Constitution By , October 20, 2019
Reiwa Shinsengumi: A New Unconventional Politician has Emerged in Japan. Power to the People! By , August 02, 2019
The Recent Japanese Elections Might Slow Down the US’ “Indo-Pacific” Strategy By , July 26, 2019
In the Wake of Fukushima. Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Change: Is Japan’s Seawall a New Maginot Line? By , and , July 19, 2019
The Fragility of Democracy: Hong Kong, China and the Extradition Bill By , June 18, 2019
Japan’s F-35 Acquisition and the Arms Race in the Western Pacific: Strategic Game Changer or Epic Boondoggle? By , June 06, 2019
Globalizing China: Confucius Institutes and the Paradoxes of Authenticity and Modernity By , May 03, 2019
Abdication, Succession and Japan’s Imperial Future: An Emperor’s Dilemma By , May 03, 2019
An Open Letter to Emperor Akihito:
 For Establishing a Genuine Democracy in Japan By , May 03, 2019
North Korea as a Small Great Power By and , March 02, 2019
After Withdrawal from the IWC: The Future of Japanese Whaling By , March 02, 2019
As U.S. Airbase Construction Starts in Okinawa, Legal Action Aims to Save Endangered Dugongs By , December 17, 2018
Stand with Okinawa By , December 13, 2018
Grappling with Clientelism: The Japanese State and Okinawa Under Abe Shinzo By , December 05, 2018
South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution and the Future of the Korean Peninsula By , December 05, 2018
Ghosts of Hiroshima By , November 05, 2018
“Sold for 40 Yen”: Nishioka Tsutomu Admits Fabricating Evidence on the “Comfort Women” By , October 19, 2018
The Oral History of a Japanese Soldier in Manchuria By , October 11, 2018
Japan’s Integrated Approach to Human Security By , October 11, 2018
Fukushima, Media, Democracy: The Promise of A Documentary Film By , and , August 16, 2018
The Abe State and Okinawan Protest – High Noon 2018 By , August 16, 2018
Justice Postponed: Ito Shiori and Rape in Japan By , August 02, 2018
Five Years Since the Suspension of Proactive Recommendation of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine in Japan By , July 08, 2018
The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency By , July 03, 2018
CIA: How to Shape Okinawan Public Opinion on the U.S. Military Presence By , July 03, 2018
Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan By , June 24, 2018
What Was “The 1968 Movement”? Japan’s Experience in A Global Perspective By , June 01, 2018
The “Japanese Village” at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: An Unexamined Context to the Firebombing of Japan By , May 03, 2018