Politics & Security
Japan Decoupling from China the Best Thing That Could Happen to East Asia
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a decoupling movement, as states try to disentangle their suppl
Author Archives for Jason Morgan
Dr. Jason Morgan is a professor at Reitaku University in Chiba Prefecture and the author of numerous articles and books in Japanese and English, including Law and Society in Imperial Japan (Cambria Press, 2020).
Culture
Anti-Japan Racism in North America: An Eyewitness Report
It is broad daylight when I and a handful of acquaintances duck into a nondescript brick building in a […]
Politics & Security
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women’ by Archie Miyamoto
The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked […]
Culture
How I Got a Japanese Driver’s License in One Try
Well, actually, I got it in two. First, I had to go to the Japanese equivalent of the […]
Special Reports
Award-Winning Book Pulls Back Curtain on Long History of Sino-Japanese Relations
A Japanese illustration depicting the negotiations of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895. Photo courtesy of Wikimed