BOOKS

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The Bonds of the Japan-US Alliance
The Bonds of the Japan-US Alliance
Sakamoto Kazuya
The Japan-US Security Treaty was first signed in 1951, coinciding with the end of Allied occupation...
The Burden of the Past
The Burden of the Past
Kimura Kan
Translated by Marie Speed
Foreword by Gi-Wook Shin
The Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South...
Closed Linguistic Space
Closed Linguistic Space
Etō Jun
The United States postwar occupation of Japan likes to boast of having given the Japanese freedom...
The Economics of Colonialism in Korea
The Economics of Colonialism in Korea
Kimura Mitsuhiko
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a colony of Imperial Japan. Its governance has been described...
Empire of the Seas
Empire of the Seas
Shiraishi Takashi
Winner of the 2000 Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize for academic writing on politics, economics, and...
Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. I
Examining Heisei Japan, Vol. I
Kitaoka Shinichi (supervisor), Kokubun Ryosei, Nakanishi Hiroshi, Shiraishi Takashi, and Tanaka Akihiko
The passing of Emperor Shōwa marked the end of an era—an era memorable in both war and peace. As is...
Fencing in the Dark
Fencing in the Dark
Sunohara Tsuyoshi
Sino-Japanese relations were seriously rattled in September 2010 when a Chinese fishing boat rammed...
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941
Kitaoka Shinichi
The years in Japan between June 1924, when a coalition cabinet of three political parties was...
Hatred Has No Future
Hatred Has No Future
Ma Licheng
The year was 2002—the 30th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations but also a...
History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan
History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan
Edited by Iokibe Kaoru, Komiya Kazuo, Hosoya Yuichi, Miyagi Taizo, and the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research's Political and Diplomatic Review Project
Translated by Fred Uleman, Brian Lewis, Frank Moorhead, Stephen Suloway, and Charles Stewart
Memories can be shared―or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of...
International Politics and the Search for Peace
International Politics and the Search for Peace
Kōsaka Masataka
Foreword and Editorial Supervision by Tadokoro Masayuki
Translated by Carl Freire
Since ancient times, humanity has put its collective wisdom toward the effort of achieving peace in...
Japan in Asia
Japan in Asia
Tanaka Akihiko
Translated by Jean Connell Hoff
Official development assistance (ODA), direct investment in Southeast Asia, participation in the...