FootNotes

Walter McDougall opened the conference, speaking of Northeast Asia’s role as “a major hinge, and at times the most important hinge, of global geopolitics.” One could even argue that World War I was a direct result of the 1904...

During the past two years the United States has launched several major initiatives intended to remake the Middle East as part of the War on Terrorism.  This included the overthrow of Saddam and the political reconstruction of Iraq; the...

Colonial Origins of American Identity Walter McDougall, co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute and professor of international relations and history at the University of Pennsylvania, began by noting that devotionals to “divine right republicanism” pervade America’s national hymns, texts, and...

The Big Mac can be effective tool in helping students achieve a better understanding of Japan. It can defeat Orientalist stereotypes about the Japanese–and also challenge young people who might have oversimplified notions of what exactly occurs when U.S....

Kokoro: The Heart Within (1998), Bonneville Worldwide Entertainment, 55 North 300 West, Suite 315, Salt Lake City Utah, 84110-1160. 300 minutes (five 60-minute tapes). $99.95 for the entire series on Amazon.com as of May 5, 2003). Scott Featherstone, producer,...

Over the past two decades, Americans have been preoccupied by Japan’s schools. Often the rhetoric has prevented educators and policymakers who seek a clearer understanding of Japanese education from acquiring objective information. Here, I attempt to separate myth from...

Most analyses of terrorism and Islam following the September 11 attacks have stressed the thousand-year conflict with Christianity and the West.  Although Muslims define themselves and the Christian West in terms of religion, Western countries view relations among themselves...

In this edition of our series of bulletins on Teaching about Japan, we review T.R. Reid’s Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in The East Teaches Us about Living in the West. We also briefly describe a resource that...

In this first bulletin in the “Teaching about Japan” series, we feature three resources that we think you will find valuable. Two are books and the third is a web site. We would also like to include a news/feedback...