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April 24, 2009

Contemporary World Politics and China’s Role

Professor Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, spent roughly one month in Japan as ...

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September 30, 2008

Vol. 6: Salmon Sacchep

The Ainu, an indigenous people who inhabited the northern part of Japan and part of Russia, produced sacchep, made by ...

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September 30, 2008

The Overseas Chinese in Tonga

Tonga will hail a new king in August 2008. A SYLFF fellow from New Zealand, who conducted field research in ...

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September 30, 2008

Sudan: Challenges for Peace and Reconstruction

The situation in Sudan is indicative of the need for enhanced African capacity in conflict management and resolution. The governments ...

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September 30, 2008

Kenya’s Post-Election Violence

Have colonial ghosts come back to haunt Kenya? Taking a look at the recent violence that spread across what was ...

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August 30

Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism

In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past ...

August 26

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (2)

In the second half of this two-part series, the author explores the complex interrelationship between nuclear energy cooperation and nuclear ...

August 20

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (1)

With energy demand soaring and global temperatures rising, nuclear power is poised to make a dramatic worldwide comeback. Japanese industry ...

August 10

Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (3)

Because Japan's postal savings system plays a major role in financing government programs, proposed changes to the privatization plan adopted ...

August 5

7. The Wicksellian Theory of Disequilibrium Cumulative Process

Wicksell's starting point was an attempt to reformulate the quantity theory of money from the neoclassical perspective. ...