Culture
BOOK REVIEW | ‘A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital’ by Mark Teeuwen and John Breen
Out of the way and nestled in the foothill forests of the Shima peninsula, Ise is home to the […]
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).
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
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