Diamant, Neil J.

In April 2002 a group of approximately twenty thousand veterans --- most of them retired People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers --- descended upon Beijing in order to file a collective petition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs...

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Bates, Alex

This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...

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Diamant, Neil J., Lubman, Stanley B., and O'Brien, Kevin B.

In today's China, law matters more than it ever has. Twenty-five years of energetic legislating, both by the National People's Congress (NPC) and local congresses, has created new legal rights and institutions; the courts, the...

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Bates, Alex

Ishigami Genʼichirō was at his apartment in the Kobe foothills when the Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake struck on January 17, 1995. Like most people, he was awakened by the early-morning shaking and rushed outside. From the...

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Bates, Alex

Japanese fiction studied in American classrooms is more likely to emphasize Japan's suffering under the atomic bomb than to grapple with that nation's war crimes. Students should be informed of the horrific human costs of...

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Bates, Alex

The Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. The initial shock had a magnitude of approximately 7.9, serious by any calculation, but, like many destructive natural events, the...

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