Asia Pacific / Politics May 17, 2014
Commemorating national trauma in South Korea
by Jeff Kingston
Memorials suggest neighbor has no inclination to forgive or forget colonial rule, a past Japan downplays
Commentary | COUNTERPOINT Feb 22, 2014
Abe's culture wars boomerang against Japan
by Jeff Kingston
Japan's culture wars are heating up to the detriment of the nation. The Financial Times is right to warn that the jingoism of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and attempts to stifle public debate, are grave threats to Japan's open society. Most Japanese don't want ...
National / Politics Nov 19, 2013
Seoul riles Tokyo with memorial to 'hero'
The government criticizes South Korea for planning to erect a monument in China to a Korean who fought Japan's rule of Korea last century and assassinated a Japanese governor.