Americans oppose Shinzo Abe’s visits to Yasukuni Shrine because of the shrine’s specific attributes, because they feel Japan has not grappled with its wartime atrocities, and because of their national security agenda in[…]
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Japan and South Korea: Getting to No
DC scribe Chris Nelson asked me to comment on a column by Douglas Bloomfield about “incitement” and antagonistic Israeli-Palestinian relations, as Chris saw a lot of similarities in relations between Japan and South Korea. Bloomfield[…]
Toxic memories in East Asia
Shinzo Abe’s December 27 visit to Yasukuni shrine will certainly not improve East Asia’s already tense relations, but it is hardly the root cause of this tension, as I argue today in my CNN op-ed.[…]