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Mccormack: Japan as a Plutonium Superpower
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Gavan Mccormack
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For 60 years the world has faced no greater threat than nuclear weapons. Japan, as a nuclear victim country, with "three non-nuclear principles" (non-production, non-possession, and non-introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan) and its "Peace Co...
Mccormack: North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Gavan Mccormack
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In February 2007, agreement was reached at the Six Party talks in Beijing on the parameters for resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue. The frame was one of comprehensive settlement of one of the long unresolved legacies of the 20th century ...
Mccormack: Fitting Okinawa into Japan the "Beautiful Country"
Znet Article, June, 02 2007
Gavan Mccormack
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Three months before he became Prime Minister, in July 2006 Abe Shinzo published his political manifesto, under the title Utsukushii kuni e (Towards a beautiful country). It is well known that Abe's sense of beauty involves a denial of the darkest ...
Mccormack: A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing:
Znet Article, February, 14 2007
Gavan Mccormack
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On 13 February 2007, a historic deal was struck in Beijing commencing the process of the denuclearization of Korea, comprehensive regional reconciliation, ending the Korean War, and normalizing relations between North Korea and its two historic en...
Mccormack: The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan's Military First Politics
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
Gavan Mccormack
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The election for Governor of Okinawa on 19 November is unique among prefectural elections in Japan in its national, regional and even global implications. The Japanese state has been struggling for more than a decade to secure the compliance of Ok...
Mccormack: 'The North Korean Problem,' Japan and the US
Znet Article, May, 16 2006
Gavan Mccormack
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'The North Korean Problem,' Japan and the US
Mccormack: The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa's Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence
Znet Article, February, 17 2006
Gavan Mccormack
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The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa's Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence
Mccormack: North Korea and the US 'Strategic Decision'
Znet Article, January, 20 2006
Gavan Mccormack
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What is the outlook in 2006 for the "North Korea" problem? In September 2005 the parties to the Beijing "Six-Sided" conference reached a historic agreement on principles and objectives: North Korea would scrap "all nuclear weapons and existing nuc...
Mccormack: Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance
Znet Article, November, 16 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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George and Junichiro, two great buddies (if the Japanese media is to be believed) meet again, on 15 and 16 November, in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto. Since Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro is one of the dwindling band of ever-faithful...
Mccormack: Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion
Znet Article, October, 19 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion
Mccormack: The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations
Znet Article, September, 04 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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No country is closer to Japan than Korea. From ancient times, the two neig...
Mccormack: The Umbrella and the Mushroom:
Znet Article, August, 30 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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The Umbrella and the Mushroom:
Mccormack: Japan's Sixtieth
Znet Article, August, 17 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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How different the 60th anniversaries of the end of World War II in Europe and in Asia. In the former, German participation was taken for granted, and the defeat of Nazism celebrated on all sides as the dawn of liberation. In the latter, it would b...
Mccormack: A North Korean Visitor to the White House
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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On 13 June 2005, the doors of the White House Oval Office opened to admit a young (37 year-old) Korean man named Kang Chol-Hwan, a refugee from North Korea and perhaps the first person from North Korea for the president to meet. Kang was slightly ...
Mccormack: Disputed Bones: Japan-North Korea Clash
Znet Article, June, 13 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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On 24 June 2005, a three day "sit-in" will commence in front of the offices of the Japanese Prime Minister, organized not by a radical leftist group but by some of Japan's most famous and respected citizens and enjoying powerful backing in the Nat...
Mccormack: Disputed Bones
Znet Article, April, 18 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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On 14 April, the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting, adopted a resolution drafted and submitted jointly by Japan and the EU on the situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's R...
Mccormack: Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring
Znet Article, February, 27 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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With the lunar New Year in Northeast Asia, the darkness of winter recedes, a pale sun gains strength, daylight hours lengthen and the earth stirs. However, in one of the bleakest and coldest corners of the region, North Korea, the land is still ha...
Mccormack: Looking Back at the Occupation -- The US and Japan over 60 Years
Znet Article, February, 13 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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For three years and nine months to August 1945, the US and Japan fought bitterly and without quarter. By then, much of Asia lay waste, Japan's cities were rubble and its people on the brink of starvation. Today, a new generation scarcely remembe...
Mccormack: War and Japan's Memory Wars
Znet Article, January, 29 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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War and Japan's Memory Wars
Mccormack: Community and Identity in Northeast Asia:
Znet Article, January, 22 2005
Gavan Mccormack
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Community and Identity in Northeast Asia:
