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3361	Tanaka Sakai	Who Sank the South Korean Warship Cheonan? A New Stage in the US-Korean War and US-China Relations　　韓国軍艦「天安」沈没の深層　　田中宇 •Japanese original available Read More
3516	Makiko Segawa	Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, TEPCO and Government. Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone　　福島県民、マスコミ・東京電力・政府からの交錯する信号の中で答を模索−−自主避難要請区域よりの報告 Read More
3408	Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun	Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State　　若手出稼ぎ中国人の抗議自殺−−フォックスコン、グローバル資本、国家 Read More
3509	Arjun Makhijani, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress	What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1?　　福島第一原発の１号機（タービン建屋）から検出された高濃度放射性塩素３８の原因は何か？ •Japanese text available Read More
3389	Catherine Lutz	US Military Bases on Guam in Global Perspective　　グアム米軍基地を世界的視野で眺める Read More
3418	Tanaka Sakai	Rekindling China-Japan Conflict: The Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Clash　　日中対立の再燃　　田中宇 •Chinese, Italian translation and Japanese original available Read More
3362	Peter Dale Scott	'Continuity of Government' Planning: War, Terror and the Supplanting of the U.S. Constitution　　「政府存続」構想—戦争、テロ、米国憲章のすげ替え Read More
3382	JJ Suh, Seunghun Lee	Rush to Judgment: Inconsistencies in South Korea's Cheonan Report　　判断を急ぐ——韓国天安号報告における矛盾 •Japanese translation available Read More
3464	Gavan McCormack	Small Islands – Big Problem: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Weight of History and Geography in China-Japan Relations　　小さな諸島−大きな問題−−尖閣／釣魚と日中関係における歴史と地理の重さ •Japanese, Korean and Chinese texts available Read More
3672	Gayle Greene	Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima　　ゆがんだ科学−−チェルノブイリ・フクシマの後の原子力発電産業 Japanese translation available http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/03/gayle-greene-nuclear-power-industry.html Read More
3368	Aaron Miller, Tuukka Toivonen	To Discipline or Accommodate? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese 'Problem Youth'　　訓練するのか宥め賺すのか−−日本の問題児の復帰問題 Read More
3386	Vivian Blaxell	Preparing Okinawa for Reversion to Japan: The Okinawa International Ocean Exposition of 1975, the US Military and the Construction State　　沖繩の本土復帰をめぐって——1975年沖繩国際海洋博覧会、米軍、土建国家 Read More
3504	Peter Dale Scott	Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons? Peter Dale Scott’s Libyan Notebook (Updated March 27)　　リビアの自由の闘士とその後援者とは−−ピーター・デール・スコットのリビア・ノート（３月27日更新） Read More
3403	Peter Goderie, Brian Yecies	Cultural Flows Beneath Death Note: Catching the Wave of Popular Japanese Culture in China　　デスノート下の文化的流れ−−中国に及んだ日本大衆文化の波 Read More
3688	Andrew Rankin	21st-Century Yakuza: Recent Trends in Organized Crime in Japan ~Part 1 ２１世紀のやくざ ―― 日本における組織犯罪の最近動向 Read More
3372	John McGlynn	Politics in Command: The "International" Investigation into the Sinking of the Cheonan and the Risk of a New Korean War　　政治が舵を取る—— 天安号沈没の「国際調査団」による調査と新朝鮮戦争への危惧 Read More
3376	Lawrence Scheinman, Miles Pomper, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Stephanie Lieggi	Nuclear Power and Spent Fuel in East Asia: Balancing Energy, Politics and Nonproliferation　　東アジアにおける原子力と使用済み燃料——エネルギー・政治・不拡散のバランス Read More
3378	Yoshida Kensei	Okinawa and Guam: In the Shadow of U.S. and Japanese “Global Defense Posture”　　沖繩とグアム——日米「世界的防衛体制」の陰で Read More
3770	Asia-Pacific Journal Feature	Eco-Model City Kitakyushu and Japan's Disposal of Radioactive Tsunami Debris　　　環境モデル都市北九州と津波の放射性瓦礫処理 Read More
3384	Peter Dale Scott	Kyrgyzstan, the U.S.and the Global Drug Problem: Deep Forcesand the Syndrome of Coups, Drugs, and Terror　　キリギスタン、米国、世界的麻薬問題——深い勢力とクーデター・麻薬・テロ症候群 Read More
3415	Ota Masahide, Satoko NORIMATSU	"The World is beginning to know Okinawa": Ota Masahide Reflects on his Life from the Battle of Okinawa to the Struggle for Okinawa Read More
3380	Taylor Owen, Ben Kiernan	Roots of U.S. Troubles in Afghanistan: Civilian Bombing Casualties and the Cambodian Precedent　　米国アフガニスタン問題の根源——爆撃による民間人死傷とカンボディアの先例 Read More
3436	Peter Dale Scott	Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma　　米国とタイ・ビルマの麻薬 Read More
3388	Levi McLaughlin	All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher　　研究はすべて実地調査ーー外国人研究者として日本で研究するための手引き Read More
3365	Gavan McCormack	Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 1　　苦渋の安保改正５０年—鳩山反撃の失敗、沖繩で高まる反抗運動、日米関係　第１部 Read More