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2599	David McNeill	Look Back in Anger. Filming the Nanjing Massacre Read More
2597	C. Douglas Lummis, Toru UNO	Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture: An Exchange Read More
2571	Oscar Johnson	The Nova Collapse: Foreigners Get Mixed Results From Joining Unions in Japan Read More
2547	Kirk A. Denton	Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity: Negotiating the Memory of Japanese Imperialism in Chinese Museums Read More
2545	Adam Lebowitz	'Little Citizens' and 'Star Pupils': Military Middle Schools in Wartime Japan Read More
2535	Rumi SAKAMOTO, Mathew Allen	"Hating 'The Korean Wave'" Comic Books: A sign of New Nationalism in Japan? Read More
2531	Takahashi Akihiro	Ground Zero 1945. A Schoolboy's Story Read More
2528	Owen Griffiths	Militarizing Japan: Patriotism, Profit, and Children's Print Media, 1894-1925 Read More
2526	Hiroaki SATO	Miyazawa Kenji: The Poet as Asura? Read More
2492	Tadatoshi Akiba, L Wittner, T Taue	Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day Events Matter. Hiroshima & Nagasaki Peace Declarations Read More
2483	Yonson Ahn	China and the Two Koreas Clash Over Mount Paekdu/Changbai: Memory Wars Threaten Regional Accommodation Read More
2477	Laura Hein, Akiko TAKENAKA	Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United States Read More
2474	C. Douglas Lummis	Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture Read More
2471	Yuki Kitazawa, Mathew Allen	A Story That Won't Fade Away: Compulsory Mass Suicide in the Battle of Okinawa Read More
2469	Philip Seaton	Family, Friends and Furusato: "Home" in the Formation of Japanese War Memories Read More
2468	David McNeill, Adam Lebowitz	Hammering Down the Educational Nail: Abe Revises the Fundamental law of Education Read More
2452	Mori Tatsuya, Fukushima Mizuho, Akagi Tomohiro, Okuhara Noriharu	War is the Only Solution. A 31-year-old freeter explains the plight and future of Japan's Marginal Workers Read More
2433	Koh Sunhui, Kate Barclay	Traveling through Autonomy and Subjugation: Jeju Island Under Japan and Korea Read More
2436	Kawakami Yasunori	Local Mosques and the Lives of Muslims in Japan Read More
2435	Andre Vltchek	The Kingdom of Tonga and the Fight Against Feudalism in the Pacific Islands Read More
2413	David McNeill	Japan's History Wars and Popular Consciousness Read More
2401	Takahashi Tetsuya	Yasukuni Shrine at the Heart of Japan's National Debate: History, Memory, Denial Read More
2394	Vaclav Smil	Light Behind the Fall: Japan's Electricity Consumption, the Environment, and Economic Growth Read More
2378	Takahashi Tetsuya	Koreans Under Assault From the Japanese Right Read More
2368	Alexis Dudden, K MIZOGUCHI	Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women' Read More
2363	Susan Orlean	Robert Lang and the Global Reach of Origami Read More
2355	Lawrence Repeta	Politicians, Teachers and the Japanese Constitution: Flag, Freedom and the State Read More
2339	Gavan McCormack, Yonhap News , S Kamiya	Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea Read More
2303	Takashima Nobuyoshi	Literature, Ideology and Japan's Revised Education Law: Kinoshita Junji's Yuzuru Read More
2299	Miyake Shoko	Japan's Education Law Reform and the Hearts of Children Read More

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154	Alexis Dudden	Korean Americans Enter the Historical Memory Wars on Behalf of the Comfort Women　　コリアン系アメリカ人、従軍慰安婦に代わって歴史的記憶の戦いに参入 Read More
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