The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 9. 2016      May 1, 2016 New Articles     Jon Mitchell  Contamination at Largest US Air Force Base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa      Jeff Kingston The Japan Lobby and Public Diplomacy    Jordan Sand  A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the "Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan"   Mel Gurtov Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea     Jonson N. Porteux Reactive Nationalism and its Effect on South Korea's Public Policy and Foreign Affairs
The Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University invites you to a workshop. Crises in the Asia-Pacific: presentations and discussion by The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus May 22, 2-6 p.m. in Tokyo Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus Bldg. 10, room 301 Workshops on Japan in comparative perspective: *Gender Equality and Labor in Japan *The Media Under Siege *Geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific Roundtable: China, Japan, Korea, U.S. * Discussion by workshop participants of their research and journal priorities, special issues, and the future of the journal. Participants include Machiko Osawa, Huiyan Fu, Phoebe Holdgruen, David McNeill, Justin McCurry, Jeff Kingston, David Slater, Gavan McCormack, Mark Selden Information will be updated at the Asia-Pacific Journal homepage apjjf.org/ Dinner follows from 6:30 at 雪梅花四谷 Restaurant The set course dinner includes alcohol for 4,800 yen per person. Payment at the conference in cash. We need a dinner headcount; so please RSVP:  japanfocusdinner@gmail.com Direct questions, to David Slater, Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture (dslater@gmail.com)     Quick Links Newsletter Archive More About Us Contributing to APJ