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Slow-Intensity Conflict In The South China Sea
In May 2000, Philippines president Joseph Estrada visited Beijing and signed five accords to ease tensions over disputed islands in ...
Read more »Why Tokyo Will Be a Larger Player in Asia
U.S. policymakers seem to have given up on Japan. Who can take a country seriously when its June 25 elections ...
Read more »Teaching the Vietnam War: A Conference Report
How did the United States get into Vietnam? What was it doing there? What happened at home? How did we ...
Read more »Vietnam: A Pop Quiz
Note to Teachers: I taught a course on the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Read more »The Taiwan Question
When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui told a German interviewer this month that relations between the Republic of China on Taiwan ...
Read more »Japan’s Schools: Five Lessons
1. Focus on Social Development We are all aware that not everything learned in school is academic. It is in ...
Read more »Samurai, Ninjas, and Salary Men: What the Martial Arts Really Tell Us About Japan
The success of James Clavell’s Shogun as both novel and miniseries demonstrated the popular appeal of the samurai to modern ...
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