There are certain obstacles that hinder China, Japan, and Korea from acquiring the vision in which the three countries can enjoy bright future. But what is the most critical one? In my opinion, that is the “history” [...]

This is a response by East Asian Student Conference of History Education (EASCHE) to a comment on a previous article entitled Grassroots Practice of Resolving Historical Issues [...]

In discussing the highly controversial issues regarding the WWII history of Japan and the rest of East Asia, one of the main arguments always brought up is that “Japanese kids don’t know the real history at all” [...]

Though the communities manifest certain parallel trends, the relationship between the cultural politics of the Chinese minority groups and that of the indigenous or majority populations has evolved very differently in the various countries of the region [...]

In contrast to many other historical narratives, John Dower’s novel Embracing Defeat suggests a more proactive Japanese role in the successful democratization and rebuilding of Japan. Democracy, after all, is not a completely foreign concept to Japan [...]