by Linda Hoaglund | Oct 18, 2011 | Democracy & Governance
ANPO: Art X War is a film depicting decades of resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan, through a treasure trove of oil paintings, photographs, contemporary art and film clips I discovered, mostly languishing in museum storage and private collections in Japan....
by Adam Stott | Sep 15, 2011 | Human Rights, War & Peace
On July 9, 2011 another irrational colonial border that demarcated Sudan was consigned to history when South Sudan achieved independence. In the process an often seemingly irrevocable principle of decolonisation, that boundaries inherited from colonial entities should...
by Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Jun 23, 2011 | Human Rights
The Human Faces of Repatriation Fifty years ago, the mass repatriation of ethnic Koreans from Japan to North Korea was reaching its peak. In towns and cities all over Japan farewell gatherings were being held, as “returnees” to North Korea packed their bags and...
by Gavan McCormack | Jun 7, 2011 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
The following text makes extensive use of the treasure trove of documents on the US-Japan-Okinawa relationship released by Wikileaks and published in The Asahi Shimbun and Ryukyu Shimpo in May 2001, setting them in the frame of four decades of chicanery. It also...
