East Asia

Ten Strategies to Stop a War in the Asia-Pacific By , May 05, 2023
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.
Geopolitical Games in the Asia-Pacific Will Not be Allowed, Warns China By , January 11, 2023
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.
Photo Essay of the Dirty Secret of South Korea’s KIA Motors: Year-Long Roof-Top Sit-In By , June 16, 2016

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 …

Medical Assistance for Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors in Japan: (Belated) Japanese Grassroots Collaboration to Secure the Rights of Former Colonial Victims By , May 03, 2018
Japan to Build Roads Out of Radioactive Fukushima Dirt By , May 03, 2018
Pacific Moves: China, Vanuatu and Australia By , April 11, 2018
China’s Prototype Space Station Tiangong-1 By , April 05, 2018
“Hey Hey General Mackymacker, Ho, Ho Mr. Lovitt:” Woody Guthrie’s Forgotten Dissent From the Atomic Bomb to the Korean War By , April 05, 2018
“Codependency” to Conflict? Fragile US-China Economic Relationship By , March 24, 2018
Inequality and Precarity in Japan: The Sorry Achievements of Abenomics By and , March 23, 2018
Marco Polo in Reverse: How Italy Fits in the New Silk Roads By , March 17, 2018
The Myth of a Neo-Imperial China By , March 16, 2018
Fukushima Radiation Levels 100 Times Higher Than Normal, Greenpeace Warns By , March 13, 2018
Fukushima Radiation Risks to Last Into Next Century: Greenpeace Investigation By , March 13, 2018
China’s “Xi Silk Road” Is Here to Stay By , March 13, 2018
The Constitution, Human Rights and Pluralism in Japan: Alternative Visions of Constitutions Past and Future By , March 04, 2018
Court Affirms Right to Sue U.S. Military: Endangered Okinawa “Dugongs”, Ancient Cultural Icons By , August 22, 2017
To Rui, Once Again: Nagasaki Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivor), By , April 07, 2017
Donald Trump’s Japanese and South Korean Nuclear Threat to China: A Tipping Point in East Asia? By , April 07, 2017
Reconstruction Disaster: The Human Implications of Japan’s Forced Return Policy in Fukushima By and , April 04, 2017
THAAD Will Not Protect South Korea By , April 02, 2017
The History You Should Know: A Historic Countdown to the US Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki By , August 06, 2016
South Korea Outlawing Opposition to War With North Korea: Seoul Used National Security Laws to Arrest Citizens Opposed to War By , July 28, 2016
South Koreans Say No to War and Rally Against Joining the US Missile Shield Targeting China, Russia, and North Korea By , July 25, 2016
Answering the US and NATO: Experts Examine A Joint Missile System for China, Russia, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization By , July 24, 2016
The German Navy Returns to the Pacific Ocean to Militarily Encircle China By , July 21, 2016
Washington Complicates the Dispute in the South China Sea By , July 20, 2016
Minsk: Belarus is Ready to Become the Western Gate of China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization By , July 20, 2016
Washington is inciting disputes between Beijing and Manila for its own gain By , July 09, 2016
Sending a Strong Signal to Washington: Russia and China to Hold Drills in the South China Sea By , July 09, 2016
Jus ad Bellum Implications of Japan’s New National Security Laws By , July 06, 2016
Coup D’état in Japan: Unconstitutional “War Legislation” Passed as Tokyo Re-Arms By , July 04, 2016
Russia’s “China Dreams” Are Less of a Fantasy Than Skeptics Say: Moscow Becomes Top Oil Supplier to China? By , July 03, 2016
Japan, South Korea, and the US Hold Missile War Games: Targeting North Korea, China, or Russia? By , July 03, 2016
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Expands By , July 03, 2016
South Korean Government Tries to End the Investigation of the Sewol Ferry Sinking and Silence Victims By , July 03, 2016
A New Cultural Geography of East Asia: Imagining A ‘Region’ through Popular Culture By , April 02, 2016
Protests in Japan Denounce US Military Presence By , May 27, 2015
Fact Sheet on Japanese Military “Comfort Women” By , May 12, 2015
Protests Erupt in Japan over Anti-Constitutional Militarization Against China By , May 03, 2015
Obama Threatens China with Nuclear Weapons. Militarization of Asia-Pacific By , May 01, 2015
Marching Towards Disaster: What’s Really Behind The US Push In The Asia-Pacific? By , April 18, 2015
6000% Increase in Cancer Rates at Fukushima Site By , April 18, 2015
Fukushima Fallout? Emergency Closure of Fishery Along Entire West Coast: Alarming Die-Offs, Mass Reproductive Failures, Strange Diseases By , April 17, 2015