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Review—Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia

January 25, 2021
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How Japan navigated independence movements and revolutions in Southeast Asia during a fractious postwar period.

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Review by Chad Kohalyk A rising China and receding America has Japan once again focused on the confluence of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Yet the recent Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision — to promote a new regional security environment anchored by India, Australia, Japan, and the United States — is in stark contrast More…

Review—Makoto Ōoka’s Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets

December 5, 2019

Twentieth Century Surrealism Tempered by Literary Discipline Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems by Makoto Ōoka translated by Janine Beichman (Kurodahan Press, 2019) Review by Christopher Blasdel The title of this magnificently translated volume of poetry by the recently deceased Japanese poet Makoto Ōoka immediately conjures a sense of the surreal. Even More…

Review—From the Fatherland, With Love

February 24, 2019

If you love Ryu Murakami, you won’t be disappointed with this novel, a fictional account of North Korea invading Japan.

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From the Fatherland, With Love by Ryū Murakami (Transl. Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf, Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Pushkin Press, 2013) Reviewed by Andrew Douglas Sokulski From the Fatherland, With Love is an exhilarating, poetic, tearful, shocking, thrilling, and intensely realistic novel that focuses on what could occur if a force from North Korea were to More…