Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]
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Losing the South China Sea
By Bill Hayton Foreign Policy Vietnam’s history is full of heroic tales of resistance to China. But this month Hanoi bent the knee to Beijing, humiliated in a contest over […]
When States Apologize
By Edwin Battistella Aeon In May 2016, when Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, some speculated that the president of the United States might offer an apology, on behalf of his country, […]
How to Proceed if the TPP Is Dead
By Michael Auslin Foreign Affairs Days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, there are few that hold out hope for the survival of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Outgoing U.S. […]
Japan, the United States, and Public Memory
By Claire Greenstein & Brandon Tensley Foreign Affairs Seventy-five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the countries that were involved in World War II’s […]
South Korea’s THAAD Dilemma
By Kongdan Oh Asia Times Koreans still suffer from a “shrimp among whales” syndrome. Although they have become a developed country with a high international profile, thanks to their globally […]
The South China Sea Arbitration: Implications for the Senkaku Islands
By Ryan Scoville Lawfare One of the big takeaways from the South China Sea arbitration is that the high-tide features in the Spratly Islands are mere “rocks” under Article 121(3) […]
Why China Hasn’t Reined in North Korea
By Sulmaan Khan Foreign Affairs Diplomacy on North Korea has assumed all the comic predictability of a Samuel Beckett play. Leader Kim Jong Un tests a nuclear bomb; the world […]
USB Drives as Weapons Against North Korea
By Andy Greenberg Wired In the age of Dropbox and Google Drive, the USB stick has come to seem like a dusty tchotchke that belongs in the drawer with your iPhone 4 […]
Japan’s Constitutional Reinterpretation: A Tug of War between Strategy and Memory
By Sean Mirski The National Interest On July 1, 2014, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet engaged in a dramatic constitutional reinterpretation. Traditionally, Japan’s constitution had been read […]
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