Political Science (1/3)
The Bonds of the Japan-US Alliance
The Japan-US Security Treaty was first signed in 1951, coinciding with the end of Allied occupation...
The Burden of the Past
The Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South...
Closed Linguistic Space
The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom...
The Economics of Colonialism in Korea
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a colony of Imperial Japan. Its governance has been described...
Empire of the Seas
Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and...
Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. I
The passing of Emperor Shōwa marked the end of an era—an era memorable in both war and peace. As is...
Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. II
Beginning as the Cold War entered its final thaw and ending shortly before the outbreak of the...
Fencing in the Dark
Sino-Japanese relations were seriously rattled in September 2010 when a Chinese fishing boat rammed...
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
The years in Japan between June 1924, when a coalition cabinet of three political parties was...
Hatred Has No Future
The year was 2002—the 30th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations but also a...
History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan
Memories can be shared―or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of...
International Politics and the Search for Peace
Since ancient times, humanity has put its collective wisdom toward the effort of achieving peace in...
