China What China did and should learn from Japan February 1, 2016 0 Written by Mark Beeson. China and Japan don’t get on. This is a problem for them and for the rest of the world given their…
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 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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
Japan German icons of leadership and remembrance: Lessons for Abe? June 17, 2015 0 Written by Patrick Flamm. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Tokyo in March this year, the revival of the old comparison between the alleged model…
China Why Is History Still an Issue in China – Japan relations? December 22, 2014 1 Written by Huang Wei. December 13 was China’s National Memorial Day. A state memorial ceremony was held for the Nanjing Massacre in 1937. There was massive…
