13 Jan 2008

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - January, 2009
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Self-description:
"APJ probes geopolitics, political economy, society, culture, and international relations, offering perspectives on historical and contemporary issues and conflicts. In addition to articles prepared for the journal, it offers translations from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This peer-reviewed open source journal draws on the contributions of researchers, journalists, policy analysts and writers worldwide. Its website with more than 1,400 articles is a fully indexed resource. "
Supplied note:
"Here are the offerings of the last two weeks at The Asia-Pacific Journal.
* Peter Dale Scott - Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
* Mark Beeson - East Asian Regionalism and the End of the Asia-Pacific: After American Hegemony.
* John Feffer - Japan: The Price of Normalcy.
* Immanuel Wallerstein interviewed by Jae-Jung Suh - Capitalism's Demise?.
* Elizabeth Van Kampen - Memories of the Dutch East Indies: From Plantation Society to Prisoner of Japan.
* Justin McCurry & David McNeill - Japan's King of Fish Faces Extinction.
* Shoko Yoneyama - The Era of Bullying: Japan under Neoliberalism.
* Lawrence S. Wittner & David Samuels - Atomic John: The Bomb as Fetish.
* Alain Gresh - The West's Selective Reading of Eastern History and Values: From Thermopylae to the Twin Towers.
* Kim Hyo-sun - Allied and Korean Forced Labor at the Aso- Mining Company and Japan-South Korea Relations.
Find them and many more at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
[A left-wing/liberal and 'progressive' politics & history e-journal - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000