Belt and Road Initiative China and Japan – an unlikely climate partnership? December 13, 2018 0 By Chris G. Pope. On 7 October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which focused on the devastating impacts of a…
China Caught between Trump and North Korea, Japan is nervous and alone September 11, 2017 0 Written by Taku Tamaki. North Korea’s nuclear test, by far its largest, came less than a week after it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew…
China As tensions in the region rise, Japan again debates its pacifist constitution May 16, 2017 0 Written by Craig Mark. Japan could finally be gearing up for the first-ever change to its constitution. In a recent video address to a pro-constitutional…
China China’s anti-ship missiles threaten an arms race in the western Pacific March 30, 2017 0 Written by James Samuel Johnson. China has a new generation of stealthy, supersonic anti-ship missiles, and the US is clearly worried about them. Former US…
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 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…
