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?The Republic of Korea has turned 60. Birthdays are a time for looking back over the past as well as for planning…
Gavan McCormack
It is 63 years since mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age. The attacks on the two cities…
Japanese politics are characterized by two related paradoxes: first, that the word "conservative" is usually applied to those who insist on the…
Introduction For 60 years the world has faced no greater threat than nuclear weapons. Japan, as a nuclear victim country, with…
In February 2007, agreement was reached at the Six Party talks in Beijing on the parameters for resolution of the North Korean…
Three months before he became Prime Minister, in July 2006 Abe Shinzo published his political manifesto, under the title Utsukushii kuni e…
On 13 February 2007, a historic deal was struck in Beijing commencing the process of the denuclearization of Korea, comprehensive regional reconciliation,…
The election for Governor of Okinawa on 19 November is unique among prefectural elections in Japan in its national, regional and even…
1. Gavan McCormack: Okinawa is far from Tokyo, even farther from Washington. An insignificant group of islands with a mere 1.3 million…
What is the outlook in 2006 for the “North Korea” problem? In September 2005 the parties to the Beijing “Six-Sided” conference reached…