There are other revealing comparisons. While the volume of Japan's industrial production increased by 92 percent from 1931 to 1936, and the quantity of exports by 46 percent from 1933 (when Japan ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is exploiting the extremely tense situation on the Korean Peninsula to push for its military to be able to carry out “pre-emptive” strikes on an enemy ...

Two significant shifts in geopolitics emerged from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Australia this week and his address to its national parliament. The first is the escalation of pressure ...

He was a trailblazing critic of imperialism, but chances are you’ve never heard his name. The radical Japanese journalist Kotoku Shusui, who moved from socialism to anarchism, wrote a seminal critique ...

This long-overdue book challenges the stereotype of a passive Japan victimized by Western imperial powers. From 1858 to 1872, the years of Japan's opening, no Western power was in a position to ...

Shatruntapa Patel's Nov. 3 letter, "History defines China and Japan," is just one inaccurate China bashing attack after another. If Patel wishes to compare the histories of China and Japan, it would ...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), once promoted as a vehicle for deepening Africa–Japan relations, has increasingly revealed itself as a hollow theatre of neo-imperial ...