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A scholar of Japanese religion explains the connections that Japan’s political parties have with several religious groups and how religion is tied in with the legacy of Shinzo Abe.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s alleged shooter, Tetsuya Yamagami, told the police that he was (...)
As efforts to revive him faltered in the crucial hours after he was shot by a gunman last Friday, the world began taking stock of the sizable influence that former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe wielded in many areas of public life. Even as he resigned in 2020 for health reasons, after (...)
Shinzo Abe’s murder is the latest political attack in Japan, a country which has strict gun laws.
Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to piece news reports (...)
Gavin Walker on his new edited volume on the story of Japan’s forgotten ’68 in a global context and its relevance to contemporary struggles.
1968 was not only a pivotal year in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world in general, but also a key moment for a new anticolonial and anticapitalist (...)
Tokyo, 20 March 1995, morning rush-hour.
Millions of commuters step out into a bright spring morning and on to one of the world’s busiest underground systems.
Also on board the trains: five bags filled with liquid nerve agent, left by members of a doomsday cult.
The packages were leaking. (...)
Seventy years ago today, the United States needlessly killed almost 100,000 people in a single air raid.
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the American firebombing of Tokyo, World War II’s deadliest day. More people died that night from napalm bombs than in the atomic strikes on (...)
Last week in this column, I suggested that Caroline Kennedy, the American ambassador to Japan, would be well advised to get the ball rolling on U.S. apologies for past misdeeds.
The anniversary of the Tokyo firebombing provides an opportunity to do so.
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, U.S. (...)
Education ministry to require textbooks that hew to gov’t views on history, disputes
The education ministry decided on a new system of textbook screening reform on Nov. 12, in which descriptions in schoolbooks will reflect the government’s views on territorial disputes and historical accounts. (...)
OSAKA — A war museum funded by Osaka Prefecture and the city of Osaka has unveiled a proposal to put more emphasis on air raids against the city, raising the possibility that display content on Japanese aggression during World War II may be reduced.
The Osaka International Peace Center has (...)
The stir caused by a textbook’s descriptions of the mass lynching of Koreans following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has prompted Yokohama’s board of education to order schools to collect the books from students.
In an unprecedented move, the board ordered municipal junior high schools to (...)
Introduction - The Servile and the Autonomous
As Japan moved to conduct House of Representatives elections in December 2012, attention in Western media and academic circles turned, as it does from time to time, to the question of whether the country was in decline, or even in some sort of (...)
Since Shinzo Abe began his second stint as prime minister, observers in both Japan and abroad have been on high alert over Japan’s political swing to the right. In this series, we ask politicians and intellectuals where they think the Abe administration is headed, and whether the direction (...)
BRUSSELS — Aug. 15 will mark 68 years since the end of World War II. It will also see the publication of a book detailing the experiences of eight Dutch women who were conscripted into sex servitude for the Imperial Japanese Army.
Titled “Broken Flowers,” the book will recount the life stories of (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The U.S. bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 that claimed some 100,000 lives ran counter to the humanitarian principles of international law, the Japanese government said in a document released Tuesday.
At the day’s Cabinet meeting, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endorsed (...)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The U.S. bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 that claimed some 100,000 lives ran counter to the humanitarian principles of international law, the Japanese government said in a document released Tuesday.
At the day’s Cabinet meeting, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endorsed (...)
Japan once again is left in the painful position of having to examine its 60-year-old World War II record and the country’s ultra- rightists have a new hero/martyr in Toshio Tamogami. The chief of staff of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force, Tomogami on October 31 was abruptly fired from the air (...)
[Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro’s visit to Yasukuni Shrine on August 15, the most controversial date possible, underscored Yasukuni’s central place in discussions of Japanese war memory and historical reconciliation in Northeast Asia. Debate typically involves the 14 Class-A war criminals (...)
2002 Workshop: “National Security and Constitutional Rights in the Asia Pacific Region” Oct. 8-9, 2002, Australia National University.
I. Contradictory principles
The problematic of the 1947 Japanese constitution should be situated in the context of the inherent twistedness of the statehood of (...)
To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task. In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition. Although it remains remarkably little-known in (...)
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