China Why the world is wary of China’s ‘great wall of sand’ in the sea September 30, 2015 0 Written by Clive Schofield. The leaders of Southeast Asian nations recently took the extraordinary step of warning China that its island-building activities in the contested South China…
China Yasukuni Shrine and Japan’s War Responsibility September 8, 2015 1 Written by Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine, where the military-related dead of modern Japan are memorialized, remains one of the main focal points in the international…
China China: taking history seriously September 4, 2015 0 Written by Mark Beeson. Many people outside China find it hard to understand its obsession with history. Appropriately enough, however, a little historical context can…
China On our side: remembering the national and international in China’s war September 3, 2015 0 Written by Andres Rodriguez. When did the Second World War start? For most people in the West this doesn’t sound like a difficult question. The…
China The 70th Anniversary of Japan’s surrender September 2, 2015 1 Written by Hans Van de Ven. On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced in his first ever radio broadcast that he had instructed his cabinet ‘to…
China Abe’s Subtle Apology: Can It Help Japan Become ‘Normal’? September 1, 2015 0 Written by Niv Horesh. Visitors to Japan can feel this is a country undergoing an identity crisis. After more than two decades of economic stagnation,…
Japan Japan’s sorry saga August 28, 2015 1 Written by Mark Beeson. What is it about northeast Asia? Why is it that a part of the world that is a byword for unparalleled…
China The Abe Statement and the politics of war memory in Japan August 24, 2015 1 Written by Edward Vickers. Since the mid-1990s, successive Japanese premiers have issued expressions of regret for wartime aggression and colonialism. Nevertheless, anti-Japanese nationalism in China and…
China From Cairo to Chongqing: Global vs. Local Histories of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the PRC August 21, 2015 0 Written by Adam Cathcart and Wankun Li. Urged on by Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its arts, scholarship, and regional bureaucracies have gone…
China The living ghosts of 1945 haunt Asia’s rival powers August 14, 2015 0 Written by Nick Bisley. Following the devastation of twin atomic attacks, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces on August 15, 1945. Seventy years…
