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Reflections & Insights

Volume 23

“The Showa Emperor repeatedly advocated for the necessity of rearmament”: Interview with Ryuichi Kitano by David McNeill

David McNeill
October 7, 2025

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Volume 23

Commentary, Translation, and Historical Revisionism: On The Ōshima Memos

Harumi Osaki
October 2, 2025

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Volume 23

Film Director Atsushi Funahashi in Conversation with Asato Ikeda: Company Retreat (2022), Sexual Violence, and the Unconscious of the Time

Asato Ikeda
September 12, 2025

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Volume 23

The Prime Minister’s New Old Clothes: Ishiba’s Silence Spoke Volumes

Alexis Dudden
September 9, 2025

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Volume 23

Photography in Research and Teaching: One Thing Leading to Another

Timothy S. George
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

Photographing Japan: The View from Machida

Bruce L. Batten
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance

David Fedman
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

War Memory in Japan: The Absence of a Dominant Narrative

Oguma Eiji
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

Conducting Oral Histories of Japanese Army Veterans of the Burma Campaign 旧日本軍の戦友会のオーラル・ヒストリーの実践

Endō Miyuki
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

Civilian Women’s Suffering during World War Two

Timothy Brook
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

War’s Own Logic: Death, Destruction, Tragedy

Laura Hein
September 2, 2025

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Volume 23

Do the Actions of the Symbolic Emperor Contribute to the Preservation of War Memory? 象徴天皇の行動は戦争を記憶するのに役に立つのか？

Hideya Kawanishi
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Recent Shifts in Singaporean Public Discourse of the Asia-Pacific War

Xi Min Ling
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Toxic Nostalgia and The Bomb

M.G. Sheftall
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

The Meaning of the End of World War II in the Twenty-First Century

Kevin Blackburn
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Can the United States and Asia Commemorate the End of the Pacific War Together?

Gi-Wook Shin
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Eighty Years Since the Last World War: How Long to the Next?

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
August 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Soaring (Narsha): Korean American Artists

Jung-Sil Lee
August 2, 2025

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Volume 23

After Impeachment: Domestic Political Opportunities and Constraints in South Korean Foreign Policy

Seo-Hyun Park
August 1, 2025

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Volume 23

Trump Cedes the Energy Future to China

Mel Gurtov
July 31, 2025

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Volume 23

The Far Right in Japanese Politics: Lessons from the 2025 Upper House Elections

Fabian Schäfer
July 28, 2025

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Volume 23

Q&A with Yuki Tanaka and Kirsten Ziomek

Kirsten Ziomek, Yuki Tanaka
June 15, 2025

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Volume 23

Political Lies Are More Plausible Than Reality: American and Japanese Lies about Atomic Bombing

Yuki Tanaka
June 6, 2025

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Volume 23

Oy, Kudō: Kudō Hirō’s 58-Year Career Supporting the Homeless

Kudō Hirō, Tom Gill, Yamada Seiki
May 30, 2025

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Volume 23 | Issue 2 | Number 3

Mio Okido in conversation with Asato Ikeda: “Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)stories—Japan, East Asia, and I”

Asato Ikeda
March 1, 2025

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Volume 23 | Issue 2 | Number 2

Martial Law and Changing Korean Society: The Rise of the Far-Right and the Emergence of 2030 Women

Jong-Cheol Kim, Suhong Chae
February 23, 2025

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Volume 23 | Issue 2 | Number 1

The People of Okinawa Stand Up for Women’s Rights and Peace

Yoshikawa Hideki
February 9, 2025

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Volume 23 | Issue 1 | Number 1

Artist Toshie Takeuchi in Conversation with Asato Ikeda: Art, War, and Decoloniality

Asato Ikeda
January 30, 2025

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Volume 22 | Issue 12 | Number 2

Making Sense of South Korea’s Senseless Martial Law Declaration

Benjamin A. Engel
December 28, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 12 | Number 1

Trump and China: The Rocky Road Ahead

Mel Gurtov
December 15, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 11 | Number 4

The Future of Food in Japan: Interviews with Organic Farmers

Daniela Blei, Tamara Venit-Shelton
December 5, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 11 | Number 2

Rubbish, Animism and Post-Fukushima Japan

Sia X. Yang
November 23, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 10 | Number 1

The “China Threat” Theory and Okinawa

Izumikawa Yuki
October 26, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 9 | Number 5

Asian American Memory Activism: A Roundtable Discussion

Linda Hasunuma, Mary McCarthy
September 30, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 9 | Number 4

Kenji’s International School Echoes with the Voices of “Sirbuba’’: An Interview with Nandu Uprety

Anjali Sharma, Merry Ray
September 30, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 9 | Number 2

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses – An Interview with M.G. Sheftall

David McNeill
September 21, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 8 | Number 4

Watching “I Am A Comedian” (Dir. Fumiari Hyuga, 2022) in a U.S. Classroom

Aiko Kojima Hibino
August 24, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 8 | Number 3

Ugui Royal Portraits not seen since Battle of Okinawa, Recovered and Returned

Travis Seifman
August 23, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 8 | Number 1

August 15 in Tokyo and Seoul: Tragedy and Celebration

Mark Caprio
August 15, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 6 | Number 5

Plan 75: Hayakawa Chie’s Dark Visual Articulation of the Crisis of Japan’s Aging Society

Amy Borovoy, Elizabeth Davis, James Raymo, Junko Kitanaka
July 2, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 6 | Number 1

The China-Russia Partnership and U.S. Policy Options

Mel Gurtov
June 9, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 5 | Number 3

“Comfort Women” – New Research from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia

Katharine McGregor, Kevin Blackburn, Sachiyo Tsukamoto
May 30, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 5 | Number 2

Fanning the Flames: China vs. Japan in the Media

David McNeill, Nao Kato
May 30, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 4 | Number 1

“I don’t want to live in a world where such things can happen.”

David McNeill
April 23, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 3 | Number 1

Right Side Down: Five-year legal battle over freedom of expression ends in defeat for Nagoya Mayor

David McNeill
March 14, 2024

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Volume 22 | Issue 1 | Number 4

It’s Called a Forgotten War, So People Don’t Pay Attention: An Interview with Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings, Haeyoung Kim
January 29, 2024

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Volume 21 | Issue 12 | Number 7

Normalization of Relations Between Japan and North Korea: Why Is It Necessary and How Could It Be Accomplished?

Wada Haruki
December 27, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 12 | Number 1

Why and How to Walk a City

Angus Lockyer
December 6, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 11 | Number 7

Art as Anti-Nuclear Activism: Takeda Shinpei’s Hibakusha Voiceprints in Alpha Decay

Megu Itoh, Takeda Shinpei
November 24, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 11 | Number 6

A Conversation with Claudia Junghyun Kim, author of Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan

Claudia Junghyun Kim, Steve Rabson
November 20, 2023

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Reflections & Insights
Volume 21 | Issue 10 | Number 6

Japanese and Korean Perspectives on the Issue of Forced Labor in the Asia-Pacific War

Kim Yeong-hwan, Sven Saaler, Yano Hideki
October 17, 2023

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Reflections & Insights
Volume 21 | Issue 10 | Number 4

Managing The Days: Personal Responsibility and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Mick Broderick, Robert Jacobs
October 9, 2023

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Reflections & Insights
Volume 21 | Issue 10 | Number 2

Reflections on Oppenheimer, the War in Ukraine, and Democracy in America

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
October 2, 2023

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Reflections & Insights
Volume 21 | Issue 10 | Number 1

What role did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet entry into the war play in Japan’s decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
October 1, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 8 | Number 11

Mapping the Great Kanto Quake: Interview with Watanave Hidenori, Professor at The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies

Hidenori Watanave
September 1, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 4 | Number 2

Paper City: A Conversation with Director Adrian Francis

Michael Lynch
April 15, 2023

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Volume 21 | Issue 1 | Number 1

Kase Hideaki’s Revisionist Vision for Twenty-First-Century Japan: A Final Interview and Obituary

Rotem Kowner
January 15, 2023

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Reflections & Insights
Volume 17 | Issue 22 | Number 1

Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from South Korea is Long Overdue: Examining the Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula

Taoka Shunji
November 15, 2019

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Volume 13 | Issue 48 | Number 5

Japan’s Largest Rightwing Organization: An Introduction to Nippon Kaigi

Hayashi Keita, Sasagase Yuji, Sato Kei
December 14, 2015

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Volume 13 | Issue 50 | Number 4

Nippon Kaigi and the Radical Conservative Project to Take Back Japan

David McNeill
December 14, 2015

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Volume 13 | Issue 36 | Number 1

SEALDs: Students Slam Abe’s Assault on Japan’s Constitution

Jeff Kingston
September 7, 2015

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Volume 8 | Issue 27 | Number 1

Assault on the Sea: A 50-Year U.S. Plan to Build a Military Port on Oura Bay, Okinawa　狙われた海——沖繩大浦湾軍港設立５０年計画

Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting, Satoko Oka Norimatsu
July 5, 2010

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