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Humanities
represents an important part of Asian Studies.
Asia-Studies Full-text Online has created a section
of the database service devoted to Asian Humanities.
This is comprised of an infusion of new Asian
Studies Humanities content providers to make the
Humanities section as robust and comprehensive as
the Social Sciences section.
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Journal of Global Buddhism, Volume
20, 2019
Research Articles
Special Focus: Buddhism and Economics
Book Reviews
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Journal of Global Buddhism, Volume
19, 2018
Research Articles
Special Focus: Translating Buddhism
Book Reviews
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The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism,
and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw, by Erik Braun
MICHAEL CHARNEY
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Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local
Contexts, by Scott Mitchell
FUNIE HSU
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Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China's
Southwest Border, by Thomas A. Borchert
ZHEN MA
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Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film,
by Francesca Cho
RON GREEN
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Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism, by Paul Cohen
ALEXANDER HORSTMANN
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Meditation, Buddhism, and Science. Edited by David
McMahan and Erik Braun
IRA HELDERMAN
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Virginia Review of Asian Studies
2019
Japanese History
Vietnam War
Contemporary Chinese Affairs and
History
North Korean Affairs
India and Pakistan Commentary
Unpublished Essays by Margaret
Mead from the 1960s
Book Review Essay
Book Reviews
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Rebecca Suter, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern
Japanese Fiction
James L. Huffman, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan
Levi McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of
a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
Elaine Zorbas, Banished & Embraced: The Chinese in
Fiddletown and the Mother Lode
Kazuo Yagami, The US-Japan Relation in Culture and
Diplomacy: Japanese Perspective. Reviewed by Sofiia Shutko
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Hmong Studies
Journal,
Vol.
19, Issue 2, 2018
Research Articles
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End of Life Care for the Hmong Population: A Cultural
Competency Educational Program for Hospice Nurses by
Margaret Bjelica and Julie Ann Nauser
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The Influence of Hmong Americans’ Acculturation and Cultural
Identity on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Mental
Health Care and Services in Comparison to Traditional Health
Beliefs and Practices by Ethan Teng Xiong, Barry Dauphin and
Carol Weisfeld
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Hmong College Student Perceptions and Experiences with
Mercury Containing Skin Lightening Products in St. Paul
Minnesota by Susi Keefe, Abdullahi Abdulle, Kim Holzer,
Nadia Mohammed, Bettina Schneider, Alexa Vorderbruggen and
Michael Xiong
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Sex Education for Hmong American Youth: Challenges and
Lessons Learned by Nancy Lo, Zha Blong Xiong, Laurie L.
Meschke, Vern Xiong, Kia Kehrer and Mary Xiong
Book Reviews
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Hmong Studies
Journal,
Vol.
19, Issue 1, 2018
(Special Issue on Hmong American Education)
Research Articles
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Management Careers, Internal Control and Corporate Governance.
Where Japan and Germany Differ, Published 2017. Career
concerns of managers function as an important control mechanism
in the context of corporate governance. They bear important
motivating and disciplining effects. In Japan, where – in the
absence of a well-functioning external market – management
careers have been generally restricted to in-house promotions,
career concerns also result in efforts by middle management to
exert control over and influence top management decisions as
they impact their career perspectives. Takaaki Eguchi’s paper
explains the background and implications of such internal
control mechanisms in Japan and points to their limitations in
recent years given the increasing need for a stronger top
management function... |
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Disasters, Donations, and Tax Law Changes: Disentangling Effects
on Subjective Well- Being by Exploiting a Natural Experiment,
Published 2015. This paper sets out to investigate (i)
whether an increase in donations in the
aftermath of disasters can mitigate the negative effects on
subjective well-being
(SWB), and if so, (ii) whether policy measures such as tax law
changes can amplify
this mitigating effect by providing further incentives for
donations. To analyse these
questions we use data on a recent, impactful disaster: the
triple disaster that
occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan (3-11). Coincidentally, only
three month after
the disaster, a long planned change in tax law was put into
effect which allows
higher tax deductions for charitable donations... |
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Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume
35, Winter 2016
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Latest Monographs:
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Southeast Review of Asian Studies,
Volume 39, 2017
ARTICLES
ESSAYS & IDEAS
BOOK REVIEWS
Asia
- Francis R. Bradley, Forging
Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of
Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast
Asia.
JARROD W. BROWN
- Justin Jacobs, Xinjiang and
the Modern Chinese State.
David Brophy, Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the
Russia-China Frontier.
RICHARD B. RICE
- Jonathan Goldstein, Jewish
Identities in East and Southeast Asia.
JOAN G. ROLAND
China
- Michael Puett & Cristine
Gross-Loh, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us
About the Good Life.
UFFE BERGETON
- D.E. Mungello, The Catholic
Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity.
THOMAS A. BRESLIN
- Xiaoming Zhang, Deng
Xiaoping’s Long War: The Military Conflict: Between China
and Vietnam, 1979–1991.
ZACHARY N. REDDICK
Japan
- Katrina L. Moore, The Joy of
Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan.
JAN BARDSLEY
- Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle,
Fish: Deep Travels through Japan’s Food Culture.
STEVEN E. GUMP
- Mark Teeuwen & John Breen, A
Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital.
STEVEN E. GUMP
- Daniel A. Métraux, How
Journalists Shaped American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of
Japan’s Military Seizure of Korea in 1905.
WILLIAM P. HEAD
- Chris Uhlenbeck et al.,
Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960
(Selections from the Nihon no hanga Collection, Amsterdam).
DAVID A. ROSS
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How Journalists Shaped American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of
Japan’s Military Seizure of Korea in 1905, Published 2017.
By Daniel A. Métraux, Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor,
Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA. |
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Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies,
Volume 7, 2014-15
Research Articles
Australian Chinese Studies
New Reserach in Chinese
Research Materials
Book Review
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Japanese Journal of Religious
Studies
2011-2016
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Asian Ethnology
2011-2016
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Nanzan |
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Te Reo, Journal
of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, Volume 58,
2015
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Te Reo, Journal
of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, Volume 56 & 57,
2013-2014
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Repatriation But Not "Return": A Japanese Brazilian
Dekasegi Goes Back to Brazil, April 2015. In the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan
dispatched well over one million citizens beyond its
archipelago in an effort to relieve perceived problems
of scarce resources, overpopulation, and social unrest.
The majority of emigrants who relocated to Japan’s Asian
empire were repatriated after 1945. However,
approximately half a million remained more or less
permanently in the Americas, giving rise to Japan’s most
significant contemporary diaspora... |
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Juche in the United States: The Black Panther Party's
Relations with North Korea, 1969-1971, March 2015.
In 1969, the Black Panther Party (BPP) established a
relationship with the North Korean leadership that was
based upon the principle of self-reliance (under the
rubric of the Juche ideology), the transnational goal of
Third World revolution, and a mutual antagonism toward
American intervention around the world. Although the
U.S. government forbade its citizens from travelling to
North Korea, BPP leader Eldridge Cleaver along with
other Panthers bypassed travel restrictions and visited
North Korea to join anti-imperialist journalist
conferences in 1969 and 1970... |
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The Asia-Pacific War and the Failed Second
Anglo-Japanese Civilian Exchange, 1942-45, March 2015.
The proposed 2nd Anglo-Japanese civilian exchange,
originally planned for October 1942, never eventuated
partly due to differences in the interpretations of what
constitutes a merchant seaman and views on whether the
Hague Convention should apply. The failure of the
exchange meant that over 3,000 Japanese and British
civilian internees as well as another 2,000 or so
Japanese and American civilian internees remained in
internment camps until at least August 1945... |
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The Making of "A Body in Fukushima": A Journey through
an Ongoing Disaster , March 2015. “A Body in
Fukushima” is an ongoing project that consists of still
photographs shot by William Johnston of Eiko Otake
performing in the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi
Reactor and of video interpretations of those still
photographs made by Eiko... |
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In the Face of American Amnesia, The Grim Truths of No
Gun Ri Find a Home, March 2015. On the 70th
anniversary of the division of the Korean peninsula, the
Korea Policy Institute, in collaboration with The
Asia-Pacific Journal, is pleased to publish a special
series, “The 70th Anniversary of the U.S. Division of
the Korean Peninsula: A People’s History.” Multi-sited
in geographic range, this series calls attention to the
far-reaching repercussions and ongoing legacies of the
fateful 1945 American decision, in the immediate wake of
U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and with no Korean
consultation, to divide Korea in two. Through scholarly
essays, policy articles, interviews, journalistic
investigation, survivor testimony, and creative
performance, this series explores the human costs and
ground-level realities of the division of Korea... |
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Producing Okinawan Cultural Identity in Hawai`i's
'Multicultural Paradise', March 2015. Cultural
identity, Stuart Hall reminds us, is not fixed; it is
'always in process, and always constituted within, not
outside, representation' (Hall 1990: 222). This paper
highlights some of the issues associated with the
fluidity of identity, and the processes involved in
constituting cultural identity within specific types of
representation. It uses as a central platform the case
of a third generation Japanese/Okinawan boy born in
Hawai`i diagnosed with encephalitis, who was healed
contentiously by modern US medical science, Okinawan
shamanism, or charismatic Christianity, depending on the
perspective of the observer... |
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The Recognition of Nuclear Trauma in Sagashite imasu (I
am Searching), February 2015. The award-winning
picture book Sagashite imasu (2012) was published in
response to 3/11. It combines dynamic poetics with
poignant photographs of relics from the Hiroshima Peace
Museum to evoke emotions about extended suffering from
radioactive fallout. I argue that the work plays an
activist role in prompting an empathetic response which
raises an ethical consciousness, and that this kind of
response in turn generates a broader “recognition” of
the dangers of using nuclear power in (and beyond) Japan
after the Fukushima disaster. |
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Remembering Hiroshima and the Lucky Dragon in Chim↑Pom’s
Level 7 feat. “Myth of Tomorrow”, February 2015. In
May 2011, just one month after the 3/11 triple-disaster,
the Chim↑Pom artist collective conducted an unauthorised
installation of a panel depicting the crippled nuclear
reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
next to Okamoto Tarō’s large-scale mural Myth of
Tomorrow in Shibuya railway station. In this paper I
read the installation as a commentary on the history of
nuclear power and anti-nuclear art in post-war Japan.
This commentary reconnects the historical issue of
nuclear weapons with contemporary debates about nuclear
power.... |
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Performance, Mourning and the Long View of Nuclear
Space, February 2015. In their responses to the
Fukushima disaster, artists may struggle with the
problem of representing these calamitous events in ways
that connect meaningfully with audiences. Related to
this is the durational experience of nuclear
catastrophe; how can theatre deal with the long term
effects of radiation? Some plays have tackled these
issues realistically, whereas others explore the
disaster in more existential ways.... |
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Introduction: Art and Activism in Post-Disaster Japan,
February 2015. On 11 March 2011, the northeastern
area of Japan, known as Tōhoku, was hit by an
unprecedented earthquake and tsunami.The disaster
damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, one
of a number of such facilities located in what was
already an economically disadvantaged region. This led
to a series of explosions and meltdowns and to the
leakage of contaminated water and radioactive fallout
into the surrounding area. Around 20,000 people were
reported dead or missing, with a disproportionate number
from the aged population of the region... |
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Japan's New Empire and the Dōmei News Agency in Occupied
Southeast Asia, 1942-45, January 2015. In these
twenty years, foreign policy makers had to figure out
how to utilize globalized telecommunication (cable and
wireless) networks. Overseas events were reported almost
immediately to the public, many of whom were also
demanding greater political, economic and social rights.
Carr argued that the propaganda institutions developed
in many countries in 1919–39 because of ‘the
popularization of international politics’ and more
effective ‘propaganda methods’... |
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North American Universities and the 1965 Indonesian
Massacre: Indonesian Guilt and Western Responsibility,
December 2014. The last century has been,
unfortunately, a century of holocausts. The documentary
“The Act of Killing” revives the memory — for both
Indonesians and Americans — of one of the greatest: the
Indonesian mass slaughter of 1965, whose memory, for a
half century, has been perhaps the most effectively
suppressed... |
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The Two-Sen Copper Coin, October 2014. A key voice
in Japan’s proletarian literature movement of the 1920s
and 30s, Kuroshima Denji (1898-1943) is best known for
his anti-war writings. These include a number of short
stories depicting Japan’s participation in the 1918-1922
Siberian Intervention, as well as Militarized Streets (Busō
seru shigai, 1930), a novel set during Japan’s 1928
military intervention in China.Militarized Streets
earned the dubious distinction of being censored by both
the wartime Japanese state and the postwar U.S.
Occupation... |
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Protest Art in 1950s Japan: The Forgotten Reportage
Painters, October 2014. The following article is a
reprint of a unit developed by MIT Visualizing Cultures,
a project focused on image-driven scholarship. In the
coming months the Asia-Pacific Journal will reprint a
number of articles on the theme of social protest in
Japan originally posted at MIT VC, together with an
introduction by John W. Dower to the series. These are
the first in a continuing series of collaborations
between APJ and VC designed to highlight the visual
possibilities of the historical and contemporary
Asia-Pacific, particularly for classroom applications... |
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"If We Don't Face Our past, We're Bound to Repeat the
Same Mistakes." Japanese Wartime Medical Orderly Reports
on Army's Role in Maintaining "Comfort Women" System,
October 2014. For years, Abe Shinzo, Japan’s prime
minister, has been playing with diplomatic fire over a
sordid episode of wartime history that has been at the
center of a storm of controversy involving Japan, China,
Korea and other outposts of Japan’s empire: the herding
of thousands of women across Asia into Japanese military
brothels. His decision this year to order an
investigation into a landmark government apology to the
so-called “comfort women” might have helped end the
controversy. Instead, it has further ignited it, which
may indeed have been Abe’s intention – he has campaigned
for nearly two decades to undermine the apology... |
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Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the
Making of Japan's Transwar Regime (Part 2), October 2014.
Itagaki Kōzō was an orphan of empire. At the end of the
Asia-Pacific War, then aged fifteen, he was stranded in
the former Japanese colony of Karafuto (Sakhalin). His
father, a coal miner, had died in a mining accident when
Itagaki was a child, and his mother had been killed in
the brief but fierce fighting that erupted as Soviet
forces swept into the southern half of Sakhalin
following the USSR's declaration of war on Japan on 8
August 1945... |
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Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the
Making of Japan's Transwar Regime (Part 1), October 2014.
Close to the lotus-filled expanse of Shinobazu Pond in
Tokyo’s Ueno Park, a narrow back street leads into a
driveway that curves between mossy walls to the top of a
small hill. At the summit stands an imposing mansion
whose neo-Jacobean facade, fronted by tall palm trees,
would look more at home in the streets of a nineteenth
century European spa town than in the midst of
twenty-first century Tokyo... |
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Reality through Fantasy: Miyazaki Hayao's “Anime” Films,
September 2014. Hayao Miyazaki, who in November,
2013 announced his decision to retire from active
film-making, is a name well-known to serious film lovers
all over the world. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences in August, 2014 announced that he will be
awarded an Honorary Oscar (Lifetime Achievement Award)
at the Academy’s 6th Annual Governors Awards on November
8, 2014. The only other Japanese director to have
received this prestigious award was the legendary Akira
Kurosawa (in 1990). He will now be in the same league of
filmmakers that includes the likes of Jean-Luc Godard,
Satyajit Ray and the world renowned animator Walt
Disney... |
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The Japan-Korea Solidarity Movement in the 1970s and
1980s: From Solidarity to Reflexive, September 2014.
The Japan-Korea solidarity movement to support the
democratization of South Korea was active throughout the
1970s and 1980s in Japan among Korean residents
(Zainichi1) and Japanese intellectuals and activists.
Korean activists in the democratization movement have
recalled the widespread international support of that
era (Chi 2003, 2005; Park 2010; Kim 2010; Oh 2012), and
Zainichi and Japanese activists have written about their
activities in numerous books and memoirs (Chung 2006;
Tomiyama 2009; Shouji 2009; Chung 2012)... |
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Korean Film Companies in U.S. Occupied Japan: Imagining
an Independent Korean Cinema in a Transnational
Mediascape, September 2014. This study reveals the
history of little-known film companies founded by
Koreans in U.S. Occupied Japan (1945-1952). At a time
when a powerful tide of decolonization and “ethnic
renaissance” energized the cultural activities of newly
liberated Koreans in both Japan and the Korean
peninsula, the practical activities of Korean film
companies in Occupied Japan were entangled in the
economic, ideological, and cultural realities of the
era. While these companies produced few original titles,
they were nevertheless active in re-screening existing
films in new contexts... |
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Sōka Gakkai Founder, Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, A Man of
Peace? September 2014. Readers familiar with my
research will know that its focus has been on the
wartime actions and statements of Japan’s institutional
Buddhist leaders, most especially those affiliated with
the Zen school. Nearly to a man, their actions and
statements were strongly supportive of Japanese
aggression and imperialist actions. In the postwar era
many of these same Zen leaders played a seminal role in
the introduction of Zen to the West... |
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Political Protest in Japan, Part II, September 2014.
Between 2002 and 2013, the Visualizing Cultures (VC)
project at M.I.T. produced a number of “image-driven”
online units addressing Japan and China in the modern
world. Co-directed by John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa,
VC tapped a wide range of hitherto largely inaccessible
visual resources of an historical nature... |
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"Comrade Carlos Bulosan": U.S. State Surveillance And
the Cold War Suppression of Filipino Radicals, August
2014. Much of the recent scholarly attention on
Asian American activism has focused on the 1960s and
1970s. This essay seeks to expand the time frame of
Asian American radicalism by documenting the U.S.
government’s persecution of Filipino radicals during the
Cold War. No effort is made here to answer the question
of whether or not the individuals targeted by the FBI
were actually communist party members... |
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Why Do We Still Need to Talk About "Historical
Understanding" in East Asia? August 2014. In Japan
today, a spirit of “dislike China, hate Korea” is
widespread. Since the summer of 2012, when territorial
disputes over the small Senkaku/Diaoyu and Takeshima/Dokto
islands became the focus of diplomatic struggle with
these neighboring East Asian countries, and even more so
since the real possibility has emerged of an armed clash
with China, a view has spread in Japan that denies the
need to keep talking about historical understanding of
the first half of the twentieth century... |
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Dirty Wars: French and American Piaster Profiteering in
Indochina, 1945-75, August 2014. With its economy
devastated by war, its national glory sullied by
ignominious defeats at the hands of Germany and Japan,
and its colonial legacy morally undercut by the Atlantic
Charter, France in 1945 faced immense challenges.
Especially daunting was the job of restoring its empire,
particularly in distant Indochina. For French political
leaders and imperialists who equated empire with
national greatness, simply granting Indochina its
independence was out of the question. But reoccupying
the lost colony would be no easy matter... |
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The Radiation That Makes People Invisible: A Global
Hibakusha Perspective, August 2014. Radiation makes
people invisible. We know that exposure to radiation can
be deleterious to one’s health; can cause sickness and
even death when received in high doses. But it does
more. People who have been exposed to radiation, or even
those who suspect that they have been exposed to
radiation, including those who never experience
radiation-related illnesses, may find that their lives
are forever changed – that they have assumed a kind of
second class citizenship... |
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Zen Masters on the Battlefield (Part II), July 2014.
In Part I of this series we looked at the battlefield
experiences of Sōtō Zen Master Sawaki Kōdō during the
Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Sawaki’s battlefield
reminiscences are relatively short, especially as he had
been severely wounded early in the war. Nevertheless, he
was able to express the relationship he saw between Zen
and war on numerous occasions in the years that
followed... |
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The Sloppy Realities of 3.11 in Shiriagari Kotobuki's
Manga, June 2014. “What is important, I think, is to
feel that something is real. I feel that “sloppy” things
are real. If I were asked “Why?,” though, I could only
reply, “Because that’s who I am.” I suppose I could puff
myself up and say “Because the world is a sloppy place,
that’s why.” This world is half-baked, half-assed, all
Buddhist “impermanence” – such that when you say this,
it is really that, and when you think you have it here,
it is over there. So yes, all that we know for sure is
that we are always in the process of change. So what
happens when the world changes? Well, the world is going
to end, of course... |
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"Banzai!" The Compulsory Mass Suicide of Kerama
Islanders in the Battle of Okinawa, June 2014. This
is the text of an interview with Kinjo Shigeaki (85)
about his experience as a survivor of the compulsory
mass suicides which occurred on Tokashiki Island,
Okinawa in late March 1945. The interview took place on
April 23rd 2014... |
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Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle
East and East Asia, 1880-2010, May 2014. East Asia’s
relationship with the Middle East today is based mainly
on economics and is devoid of grand political projects
of solidarity and intellectual dialogue. Countries such
as China, Japan and Korea present the Middle East with a
model of state-led capitalist neoliberal economic
development. At the same time, the redemptive
transformation of East Asia into a globally powerful
region offers a trajectory of development diverging from
the Middle East, struggling with political turbulence,
regime crises and regional wars both cold and hot... |
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Yellow Blood: Hepatitis C and the Modernist Settlement
in Japan, May 2014. Japan has one of the highest
rates of hepatitis C virus infection in the
industrialized world. This endemic and the challenges it
poses for the future of Japan’s healthcare system stem,
ironically, from the formation of a modernist settlement
beginning in the late 19th century. Modern
techno-scientific solutions to political problems
inadvertently provided millions of opportunities for
hepatitis C to spread in rural communities, among
leprosy communities, the traumatized postwar community
and into the national blood supply... |
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The Dulles Brothers, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and
the Fate of the Private Pre-War International Banking
System, April 2014. The election of Dwight D.
Eisenhower in 1952 had permanent consequences for U.S.
foreign policy. The U.S. major oil companies, which
before the election were facing criminal charges for
their cartel arrangements, instead were freed to
continue their activities, until “In some of the faraway
countries where it did business... |
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The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books
Financing, April 2014. The issue of Saudi Embassy
funding of at least two (and possibly more) of the
alleged 9/11 hijackers (or designated culprits) is so
sensitive that, in the 800-page Joint Congressional
Inquiry Report on 9/11, the entire 28-page section
dealing with Saudi financing was very heavily
redacted.56 A similar censorship occurred with the 9/11
Commission Report... |
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German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Working Papers
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"Why on
earth is something as important as this not in the
textbooks?"–Teaching Supplements, Student Essays, and
History Education in Japan, January 2013.
The economic setbacks suffered by Japan in the early
1990s brought with them a sense of social malaise that
has lingered to the present. In recent years, only a
small minority of Japanese believe that their country is
on the right track and while “Abenomics” has public
confidence on a slight upswing, it is far too early to
tell if this will hold... |
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Lavish
Are The Dead: Re-envisioning Japan's Korean War,
December 2013.
In 1957, a young Japanese writer published a collection
of short stories which quickly attracted nationwide
attention. The title of the collection - Shisha no Ogori
- is particularly difficult to render into English, but
has been translated by John Nathan as Lavish Are The
Dead. The writer was Ōë Kenzaburō, and the success of
this, his first published book, was the start of a
career that would ultimately bring him international
fame and a Nobel Prize for literature... |
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The
Formation and Principles of Count Dürckheim's Nazi
Worldview and his interpretation of Japanese Spirit and
Zen, December 2013.
Japan, the “yellow fist”, as he called the nation
in “Mein Kampf”, caused Adolf Hitler a considerable
headache. In his racist foreign policy he distrusted the
Asians in general and would have preferred to increase
European world supremacy by collaborating with the
English Nordic race... |
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The
Harbin An Jung-Geun Statue: A Korea/China-Japan
Historical Memory Controversy, December 2013.
The Chinese and South Korean governments have recently
announced the building of a new monument to An Jung-Geun
in Harbin. An is most famous for his 1909 assassination
of Itō Hirobumi, a high Japanese official who framed the
Meiji constitution, served as prime minister, and is
credited with being one of the great modernizers of the
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Miyazawa
Kenji's Prophetic Green Vision: Japan's Great
Writer/Poet on the 80th Anniversary of His Death,
November 2013.
When Miyazawa Kenji was writing his stories and poems
nearly a century ago, Japan was a country with a
two-pronged mission: to become the first non-white,
non-Christian nation to create a modern prosperous
state... |
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D.T.
Suzuki, Zen and the Nazis, October 2013.
The always contentious, sometimes highly emotional,
debate over D.T. Suzuki’s relationship to Japanese
fascism continues unabated. Among other things this is
shown by reader reactions to a recent article in Japan
Focus entitled “Zen as a Cult of Death in the Wartime
Writings of D.T. Suzuki". This debate can only intensify
by the further assertion of a wartime relationship
between D.T. Suzuki and the Nazis or, more precisely, a
positive or sympathetic relationship between Suzuki and
the Nazis. This article, in two parts, will explore that
possibility though conclusive proof of such a
relationship will not be included until the second
part... |
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A Tale
of Two Decades: Typhoons and Floods, Manila and the
Provinces, and the Marcos Years, October 2013.
In the second half of the twentieth century,
typhoon-triggered floods affected all sectors of society
in the Philippines, but none more so than the urban
poor, particularly the esteros-dwellers or shanty-town
inhabitants, residing in the low-lying locales of Manila
and a number of other cities on Luzon and the Visayas.
The growing number of post-war urban poor in Manila,
Cebu City and elsewhere, was largely due to the policy
repercussions of rapid economic growth and
impoverishment under the military-led Marcos regime... |
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Now On
My Way to Meet Who? South Korean Television, North
Korean Refugees, and the Dilemmas of Representation,
October 2013.
In 2011, the recently established South Korean
broadcasting network Channel-A launched Ije mannareo
gamnida (Now on My Way to Meet You), a program whose
format brings together a group of a dozen or more female
talbukja (North Korean refugees)2 on a weekly basis.
These women interact with host Nam Hui-seok, an
additional female co-host (or, in the earlier episodes,
two), and a panel composed of four male South Korean
entertainers... |
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Cooking
the Books: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China
Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962, September 2013.
As influential contributors to national policy,
intelligence professionals inevitably face strong
political and bureaucratic pressures to shape their
assessments to fit official or factional policy. In the
modern era, such pressures have contributed to costly,
even disastrous, escalations of the Vietnam War, the
arms race, and, most notoriously, Washington’s conflict
with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq... |
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Reading
Volcano Island: In the Sixty-fifth Year of the Jeju 4.3
Uprising, September 2013.
I was eight or nine when M samchon (“Uncle M”) arrived
at our house in Japan on one of his regular late-night
visits. In fact, it seemed as if he chose to visit at
this hour, as if he was hiding from something or
someone. Although he was not really related to us, he
came from the same part of Korea, Jeju Island, and we
referred to him using the term samchon, a Jeju term used
when addressing uncles and aunts. He spoke in the Jeju
tongue, which was unlike any of the other versions of
Korean that I had heard at that time... |
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New Zealand Journal of Asian
Studies, Volume 11 No. 1, June 2011
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The
Limits of Sovereignty and Post-War Okinawan Migrants in
Bolivia, August 2013.
This paper examines the legal implications for Okinawan
migrants of Article 3 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty
(hereafter SFPT), signed between Japan and most of the
Allied Powers in 1951. Particularly, it analyses the
case of post-war Okinawan migrants in Bolivia, showing
how the legal conditions in the Ryukyu Islands were
extended to the Andean country... |
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The
Korean War and Sino-North Korean Friendship, August 2013.
The relationship between China and North Korea is a
subject that attracts much discussion and speculation in
today’s policy circles and media. The history of
Sino–North Korean friendship is typically traced to the
time of the Korean War (1950–1953), although in North
Korea it tends to go further back, to the colonial
period... |
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Miyazaki
Hayao's Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises), August 2013.
Miyazaki Hayao‟s new film Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)
premiered on July 20 and is on pace to become one of the
most successful, if not the most successful, Japanese
films of 2013. Miyazaki tells the story of Horikoshi
Jiro, the designer of the “Zero Fighter”, which was a
terrifyingly effective weapon deployed against China,
the United States, and its allies in the early war
years... |
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Zen as a
Cult of Death in the Wartime Writings of D.T. Suzuki,
August 2013.
The publication of Zen at War in 1997 and, to a lesser
extent, Zen War Stories in 2003 sent shock waves through
Zen Buddhist circles not only in Japan, but also in the
U.S. and Europe. These books revealed that many leading
Zen masters and scholars, some of whom became well known
in the West in the postwar era, had been vehement if not
fanatical supporters of Japanese militarism... |
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Cosmetic
Surgery and Embodying the Moral Self in South Korean
Popular Makeover Culture, June 2013.
You only have to spend a day in Seoul to realize that
appearances do matter in contemporary South Korean
society. Advertisements for various cosmetic surgeries
are conspicuous everywhere—from taxis to public
transport and underground stations, all evidence that
the industry is booming... |
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Much Ado
over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over
Senkaku/Diaoyu, May 2013. More
than six decades from the San Francisco Treaty that
purportedly resolved the Asia-Pacific War and created a
system of peace, East Asia in 2013 remains troubled by
the question of sovereignty over a group of tiny,
uninhabited islands. The governments of Japan, China,
and Taiwan all covet and claim sovereignty over the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands... |
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After
Hiroshima, May 2013. By taking on
the incomprehensible destruction wrought by the atomic
bomb in the book After Hiroshima, artist elin o’Hara
slavick faces a void of annihilation that transcends
expression, and yet, with meticulous care and
consciousness, she produces photographic exposures that
illuminate the unspeakable. Through works of troubling
beauty, slavick enacts a temporal rupture, unearthing a
moment that has been relegated to the historical past by
saying, with stark but quiet clarity, that Hiroshima
1945 is not over... |
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