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Yasukuni on August 15th: A Place and Time for Remembering
In the United States, the beginnings of wars are often remembered. Remember the Alamo, Remember the Maine, Remember
Author Archives for Jason Morgan, Reitaku University
Jason Morgan is an assistant professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan.
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Yoshiko Sakurai Keeps Leading the Way on Free Speech in Japan
Free speech is rapidly becoming a vanishing commodity worldwide. Political correctness, pandemic fake news, social
Travel
Jimbocho — A Booklovers’ Haven in the Heart of Tokyo
Japan is famous, among many other things, for its exceptionally high literacy rate. Although Japan has not conducted l
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Don’t Let Free Speech Die in Japan. I’ll Fight Alongside You
I was born and raised in the United States. Growing up, it was easy to know what America was. […]
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INTERVIEW | Harvard Professor Mark Ramseyer Asks, ‘What’s Gotten Into the Korean Judiciary?’
Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, is one of the world’s foremost au
Culture
Harvard Japanese Law Specialist Ramseyer Wins ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ Award
For most scholars, the job description involves toiling away in obscurity. But that doesn’t mean that nobody notices t
Books
[BOOK REVIEW] ‘The Political History of Modern Japan’ by Shinichi Kitaoka
History is like a series of buoys marking the way through a vast ocean. The buoys are events, facts, […]
Culture
A Tale of Two Japans: Does WEF Report Show Gender Gap or Data Manipulation?
Every year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) — a Swiss-based non-profit famous for its globalist elite-rich January
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Abductions by North Korea: International Issue is Victim Families’ Personal Sorrow
Takuya Yokota’s eyes were damp as he took the podium in a Reitaku University auditorium on Saturday, November [&hell
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How Japan Should Respond to BTS’ Non-Apology Over the A-Bomb T-Shirt
In pictures that started appearing online in October, Jimin of the Korean boy band BTS is shown […]
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Ninja Shortage? That’s Just the Tip of the Fake ‘News’ Iceberg About Japan
By Jason Morgan The British have a term for it: “the silly season.” In the summertime, news […]
Politics & Security
[BOOK REVIEW] ‘Bully of Asia’: Are Japan, the U.S. Ready to Stand Up to China?
Jason Morgan Ba. It’s a Chinese word. It means “hegemony,” the dominion that one state holds […]