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BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan’ by Simon Partner
It is a well-known story that Japan’s transformation from a largely closed nation, sakoku, into a powerful internati
Author Archives for June Teufel Dreyer
June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of political science at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, where she teaches courses on China, U.S. defense policy, and international relations. Professor Dreyer has lectured to, and taught a course for, National Security Agency analysts, and consults for organizations including the National Geographic and Centra Technology. She is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies. Her recent book, Middle Kingdom and the Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations Past and Present, won the fourth annual Japan Study Award from the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals in Tokyo.
Politics & Security
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer’ by Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil
In January of this year, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC, both of whom do classified defense-related work for Japan’s Mini
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J. Samuels
Author Richard J. Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’ by Roger Faligot
Chinese espionage activities are daily items in the press of late. Arrests of operatives who have sold the […
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art During the Second World War’ by Asato Ikeda
In 1970, the American government returned a collection of 153 paintings that had been deemed problematic to Japan. [
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Friendship Across the Seas: The U.S. Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’ by Agawa Naoyuki
In this valentine to Japanese-American maritime relations, author Agawa Naoyuki traces the process by which bitter e
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Tiananmen’s Legacy: 30 Years After, A New Generation Calling for Changes
Three decades after the Chinese Communist government’s brutal attack on unarmed demonstrators in and around Tiananmen
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power’ by Sheila A. Smith
As explained in author Sheila A. Smith’s introduction of her new book, several generations of Japanese leaders have
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada’ by Jonathan Manthorpe
Author Jonathan Manthorpe, a Canadian citizen with decades of residence in Asia as a foreign correspondent, has chos
Special Reports
[BOOK REVIEW] ‘Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone’ by Ikuhiko Hata
By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations […]
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Security, Defense Cooperation Puts Japan-Taiwan Relations Back on Track
June Teufel Dreyer The Chinese are fond of referring to their relationship with border states as […]
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China’s Dream, Japan’s Nightmare?
In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even [