*The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus articles also here.
<RESEARCH ARTICLES 研究論文>
18) Japan’s new history rising
San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 29, 2015. PDF
17) History in a Box: UNESCO and the Framing of Japan’s Meiji Era
The Asia-Pacific Journal, June 29, 2015. PDF
Story of Japan’s industrial rise deserves to be told, forced labor and all
The Japan Times, June 24, 2015. PDF
Unesco and the story of Japan’s Meiji Era
Straits Times, June 29, 2015. PDF
16) Redress Crossroads in Japan: Decisive Phase in Campaigns to Compensate Korean and Chinese Wartime Forced Laborers
The Asia-Pacific Journal, July 26, 2010.
PDF (History News Network, ZNet)
Wartime labor redress efforts at key juncture: campaigns to compensate South Korean, Chinese victims see progress
The Japan Times, Aug. 24, 2010. PDF
Painstaking Bid to Reach Resolution
Straits Times, Aug. 26, 2010
15) Assessing the Nishimatsu Corporate Approach to Redressing Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan
(with Kang Jian and Arimitsu Ken)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Nov. 23, 2009.
PDF (History News Network)
14) Aso Mining’s Indelible Past: Verifying Japan’s Use of Allied POWs Through Historical Records
(translation of article by Fukubayashi Toru in SEKAI, June 2009)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Aug. 17, 2009. PDF
13) WWII labor redress efforts gain traction
The Japan Times, July 14, 2009. PDF
12) Aso Mining’s Indelible Past: Prime Minister Aso Should Seek Reconciliation with Former POWs
(translation of article by Fujita Yukihisa in SEKAI, May 2009)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, April 15, 2009. PDF
11) Corporate Japan’s War Stories (with Mindy Kotler)
Far Eastern Economic Review, Nov. 26, 2008. PDF, Japanese
10) WWII forced labor issue dogs Aso, Japanese firms
The Japan Times, Oct. 28, 2008. PDF
(reprinted in South China Morning Post)
9) New Era for Japan-Korea History Issues: Forced Labor Redress Efforts Begin to Bear Fruit
The Asia-Pacific Journal, March 8, 2008. PDF
Remains issue clouds Tokyo-Seoul ties
The Japan Times, March 4, 2008. PDF
8) The Aso Mining Company in World War II: History and Japan’s Would-Be Premier
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Oct. 6, 2007. PDF
The war according to Aso Co.
The Japan Times, June 26, 2007. PDF, Japanese
(reprinted in Straits Times)
7) Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan’s Foreign Minister: The Aso Mines
The Asia-Pacific Journal, May, 28, 2007. PDF (ZNet)
Aso Mining’s POW labor: the evidence
The Japan Times, May 29, 2007. PDF, Japanese
6) Names, Bones and Unpaid Wages: Reparations for Korean Forced Labor in Japan
The Asia-Pacific Journal
Part 1 on Sept. 10, 2006. (PDF)
Part 2 on Sept. 17, 2006. (PDF)
Japanese
5) NHK’s Finest Hour: Japan’s Official Record of Chinese Forced Labor
The Asia-Pacific Journal, June 20, 2006. PDF
(History News Network, ZNet)
4) Chinese Forced-Labor Victims Press Japan to Embrace Emerging International Standards of Accountability
YaleGlobal Online, May 2, 2006. PDF
(reprinted in South China Morning Post and Straits Times)
3) Mitsubishi, Historical Revisionism and Japanese Corporate Resistance to Chinese Forced Labor Redress
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Feb. 16, 2006. PDF, Japanese
(History News Network, ZNet)
2) War Responsibility in a Japanese College Classroom
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Sept. 1, 2005. PDF
(Pacific News Service)
1) Chinese Forced Labor, the Japanese Government and the Prospects for Redress
The Asia-Pacific Journal, July 8, 2005. PDF
Reprinted in Caroline Rose, ed., Sino-Japanese Relations: History, Politics, Economy, Security (Routledge, 2011).
<PAPER PRESENTATIONS 学会発表>
6) Mending Gaps in Understanding of History, Memory, and Legal Process in East Asia. Panel discussion participant. University of California, Davis, Nov. 2015.
5) Japan’s Corporate Responsibilities for Wartime Forced Labor: Research and Response. Lecture by invitation at George Washington University, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, July 2010.
4) Transnational Grassroots Efforts to Redress Forced Labor in Wartime Japan. Lecture by invitation at Stanford University, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, March 2010 (series: The American Role in Northeast Asian Reconciliation). PDF
3) The Reparations Movement for Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), 65th Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2007. PDF
2) Reconciliation without Reparations? Redress Movements for Forced Labor in Wartime Japan. Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 59th Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2007.
1) Reconciliation without Reparations? Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan and the Prospects for Redress. Speech by invitation at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Tokyo, June 2006. PDF