China Hong Kong during World War II: A Transnational Battlefield September 9, 2015 0 Written by Chi Man Kwong. On 30 August, 1945, a combined fleet of British, Australian, and Canadian vessels entered Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong, led…
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,…
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 Abe’s statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and Sino-Japanese relations August 17, 2015 0 Written by Karl Gustafsson. On 14 August, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered his long anticipated statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of the…
China Japan’s way of remembering World War II still infuriates its neighbours August 11, 2015 0 Written by Sarah Hyde. The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 have left the country with a legacy of victimhood unique in human…
China 70 Years of ‘Cold Peace’ and ‘Cold War’ in East Asia Coming to an End? August 7, 2015 0 Written by Christian Wirth. 70 years passed since Emperor Hirohito declared Imperial Japan’s surrender and ended what is often referred to as The Pacific War. 25…
China-Japan Sir David Warren on Japan/China relations February 27, 2013 0 http://vimeo.com/59684351 Sir David Warren is the recent former British Ambassador to Japan (2008-12). Here is the video of a talk he gave at Nottingham last…
China-Japan Ma’s Peace Initiative and Taiwan’s Diaoyutai Debate February 26, 2013 1 By Michal Thim. The ROC (hereafter Taiwan) President Ma Ying-jeou’s East China Sea Peace Initiative came at time of heightened tensions between Japan and the PRC (hereafter…