Asia Policy Point

09/28/2023

https://www.cfr.org/blog/womens-voices-project-pivots-japan
CFR starts program to interview prominent Japanese women. Tokyo's rightwing Governor is the first to be interviewed.

After a yearlong focus on India, the Women’s Voices from the Indo-Pacific Project now shifts to another important U.S. democratic partner, Japan.

09/28/2023

Will anyone tell the diplomats that this is home island of the notorious criminal General Homma who savaged the ? Or that the Korean government objects to a designation because the application ignores Korean slave labor?

Press Releases Study Tour in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture for the Diplomatic Corps in Japan Tweet September 28, 2023 Japanese The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan will conduct a study tour for diplomatic corps in Japan, in collaboration with Niigata Prefecture and Sado City on October 12 and 13...

09/19/2022

Former President Donald Trump is in talks with the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s family about potentially attending his funeral in the wake of his assassination.

09/19/2022

But isn't the dollar amount down?

A nation with a deep streak of pacifism confronts a dangerous world

09/13/2022

From "The Abe Legacy: A Compendium"

08/26/2022

Just released investigation of the infamous Report No 49 on the Comfort Women discovered in Burma. Effectively disproves the deniers interpretation of the report.

Japanese 'Comfort girl'Report No. 49For the first time ever,the lies are revealed! Coming soon on August 25th ...

08/24/2022

Incredible research into the famous picture of the Comfort Women in Burma. Author is the first to talk to one of MIS who actually interviewed the women. Pokes big holes in the denier stories.

“A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a pr******te or ‘professional camp follower’ attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers.” This description of “comfort women,” or the victims of the Japanese military’s wartime sexual...

08/24/2022

What about Okinawa's dugongs?

The marine mammal dugong (dugong dugon) is “functionally extinct” in Chinese waters, a study published in Royal Society Open Science found.

08/23/2022

The US has a lot to answer for. Now if the US Asia policy folks would talk to their human rights and women's rights counterparts in the State Dept we might get somewhere.

History sits at the heart of the frigid relationship between South Korea and Japan. Not just the history of Japanese imperialism, but also the history of U.S. strategic interests since 1945. U.S. decision-making stemming from such interests — at first framed within the context of fighting the Cold...

07/25/2022

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