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3287	Iha Yoichi, Satoko NORIMATSU	Why Build a New Base on Okinawa When the Marines are Relocating to Guam?: Okinawa Mayor Challenges Japan and the US 「沖縄の海兵隊のほとんどがグアムに行くのに、なんで辺野古が必要なんですか？」－宜野湾市長　伊波洋一　日テレインタビュー完全版 Read More
3274	Tanaka Sakai	Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam 官僚が隠す沖縄海兵隊グアム全移転 •Japanese original available Read More
3250	Gavan McCormack	The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama [Japanese translation] Read More
3254	Study Group on Okinawan External Affairs	Okinawan Message to President Obama: Withdraw the Marines Read More
3232	Tze M. Loo	Shuri Castle's Other History: Architecture and Empire in Okinawa Read More
3223	Sakurai Kunitoshi	The Guam Treaty as a Modern “Disposal” of the Ryukyus Read More
3185	Yokemoto Masafumi, Hayashi Kiminori, Oshima Ken'ichi	Overcoming American Military Base Pollution in Asia: Japan, Okinawa, Philippines Read More
3062	Miyume TANJI	Community, Resistance, and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan Read More
3059	Gavan McCormack	Hillary in Japan - The Enforcer Read More
3025	Urashima Etsuko	Opting for the "Irrational": Tokyo Brushes Aside Okinawan Court Order to End Awase Wetlands Reclamation Project Read More
3019	Katharine H.S. Moon	Military Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia Read More
3011	Gavan McCormack	Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years [Japanese text available] Read More
2946	Sakurai Kunitoshi	Okinawan Bases, the United States and Environmental Destruction [Japanese text available] Read More
2934	Wada Haruki	Maritime Asia and the Future of a Northeast Asia Community Read More
2933	C. Douglas Lummis	The US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawan Anger. A DEBATE Read More
2921	Peter J. Katzenstein	Japan in the American Imperium: Rethinking Security Read More
2920	Gavan McCormack	The Okinawan Alternative to Japan's Dependent Militarism [Japanese translation available] Read More
2915	Oe Kenzaburo	Misreading, Espionage and "Beautiful Martyrdom": On Hearing the Okinawa 'Mass Suicides' Suit Court Verdict. UPDATE Read More
2906	Matthew R. Augustine	Border-Crossers and Resistance to US Military Rule in the Ryukyus, 1945-1953 Read More
2862	Tessa Morris-Suzuki	Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empire Read More
2861	Chugoku Shinbun	Living With the Nightmare of Planes and Aircraft Carriers at U.S. Bases in Japan: Upgrading Iwakuni and Yokosuka Read More
2857	Yoshida Kensei	US Bases, Japan and the Reality of Okinawa as a Military Colony Read More
2825	Gavan McCormack, T Matsumoto	Okinawa Says "No" to US-Japan Base Plan Read More
2822	Koji TAIRA	Okinawan Environmentalists Put Robert Gates and DOD on Trial. The Dugong and the Fate of the Henoko Air Station Read More
2760	John Junkerman	The Global Article 9 Conference: Toward the Abolition of War Read More
2751	Okabe Itsuko, Greg Vanderbilt	From a Woman Aggressor. Reflections on Japan and the Asia Pacific War Read More
2744	Nobumasa Tanaka	Desecration of the Dead: Bereaved Okinawan Families Sue Yasukuni to End Relatives' Enshrinement Read More
2741	Herbert P. Bix	War Responsibility and Historical Memory: Hirohito's Apparition Read More
2737	Terese Svoboda	Race and American Military Justice: Rape, Murder, and Execution in Occupied Japan Read More
2726	Philip Seaton	Vietnam and Iraq in Japan: Japanese and American Grassroots Peace Activism Read More

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88	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Ban Ki-moon's Visit to Chernobyl　　潘基文のチェルノブイリ訪問 Read More
89		Fukushima Burning: Anatomy of a Nuclear Disaster　　福島炎上−−核災害の構造 •Japanese text available. Updated Read More
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110	Greg Mitchell	From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Uninhabitable Due to Radiation　　ヒロシマからフクシマ−−日本政府、放射線による居住不可能の広域設定発表へ Read More
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114	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	What are the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown? Japanese Press Assessments　　福島原発炉心溶融のもたらす結果は？−−日本の諸新聞記事による評価 Read More
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117	David H. Slater	Fukushima women against nuclear power: finding a voice from Tohoku　　福島の女性対原子力発電−−東北からの声 Read More
118	William Underwood	Overseas Hibakusha Lawsuit: Lee Keun-mok's Legacy　　在外被爆者訴訟：三菱徴用工判決から４年　元原告の李さん死去、その足跡 Read More
119	Andrew DeWit	Japan’s Nuclear Village Wages War on Renewable Energy and the Feed-in Tariff　　日本の原発村、再生可能エネルギーと固定価格買取り制度に対し戦闘へ Read More
120	Hirose Takashi	Farewell to Nuclear Power – A Lecture on Fukushima　　原発を即時廃炉に Read More
121	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Japan Nuclear Safety Agency: Radioactive Water Leaks to the Ocean 'Zero' 　　保安院　海への汚染水、ゼロ扱い　「緊急」で法適用外 Read More