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McCormack: Fukushima: An Assessment of the Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown
Znet Article, March, 28 2013
Gavan McCormack
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It is just over two years since Japan’s quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown
McCormack: Abe Days Are Here Again: Japan in the World
Znet Article, December, 26 2012
Gavan McCormack
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On December 26, 2012 Abe Shinzo is to resume the position of Prime Minister of Japan
McCormack: Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and East China Sea Domains (and Claims)
Znet Article, September, 05 2012
Gavan McCormack
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Much of the “high” seas was divided up and allocated to nation states in the form of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) over which states enjoyed special rights akin to resources ownership
McCormack: North Korea's 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?
Znet Article, April, 04 2012
Gavan McCormack
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The more the "international community (ie, the US and its allies) concentrate on strangling North Korea to force it to submit, the more entrenched becomes the regime
McCormack: Discordant Visitors: Japanese and Okinawan Messages to the US
Znet Article, October, 04 2011
Gavan McCormack
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Analysis of US-Japanese conversations on Okinawa and the US base there
McCormack: Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa
Znet Article, May, 25 2011
Gavan McCormack
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“What is exposed...in the [Wiki] diplomatic cables is just how pathetic and decadent are Japan’s political and elite bureaucratic circles"
McCormack: Hubris Punished: Japan as Nuclear State
Znet Article, April, 19 2011
Gavan McCormack
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This article offers a general overview of the nuclear era that began in Japan less than a decade after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and may well have been brought to its close by the events at Fukushima six and a half decades later.
McCormack: Contested Waters - Contested Texts: Storm over Korea's West Sea
Znet Article, February, 23 2011
Gavan McCormack
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Asia Pacific Journal posted an article on Korea that was withdrawn, and therein lies a story...
McCormack: The US-Japan ‘Alliance’, Okinawa, and Three Looming Elections
Znet Article, September, 14 2010
Gavan McCormack
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The impact of the US bases in Okinawa on three elections
McCormack: The Travails of a Client State
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Gavan McCormack
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An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty
Urashima: Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches
Znet Article, January, 27 2010
Etsuko Urashima
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Okinawa election and the US base
Mccormack: The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama
Znet Article, November, 14 2009
Gavan Mccormack
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The making of an unequal, unconstitutional, illegal, colonial and deceitful US-Japan agreement.
Mccormack: The Road to Copenhagen
Znet Article, October, 19 2009
Gavan Mccormack
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In September, after its warmest August on record, Australia's East coast was shrouded in thick red dust.
Mccormack: History Too Long Denied: Japan's Unresolved Colonial Past and Today's North Korea Problem
Znet Article, July, 18 2009
Gavan Mccormack
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2010 will mark the centenary of Japanese colonial rule over the Korean peninsula, but, North Korea, Japan's neighbour, remains the one country in the world with which Japan has no relations
Mccormack: Security Council Condemnation of North Korean "UFO" Deepens Korean Crisis
Znet Article, April, 15 2009
Gavan Mccormack
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Motives for the North Korean rocket launch and the detrimental response to it.
Mccormack: Hillary in Japan -- The Enforcer
Znet Article, February, 22 2009
Gavan Mccormack
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Japan's continued subordination to the US and Okinawan opposition.
Mccormack: Facing the Past: War and Historical Memory in Japan and Korea
Znet Article, December, 11 2008
Gavan Mccormack
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All states have dark secrets, and none finds it easy to confront them. Yet the best assurance that past mistakes and misdeeds will not be repeated is that they be faced...
Mccormack: Korea at 60
Znet Article, September, 07 2008
Gavan Mccormack
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Background on South Korea
Mccormack: August Nuclear Thoughts: the New Proliferation
Znet Article, August, 19 2008
Gavan Mccormack
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The five nuclear club members, led by the single super-power, refuse to carry out their obligation under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (actually an abolition treaty) to demolish their arsenals.
Mccormack: "Conservatism" and "Nationalism": The Japan Puzzle
Znet Article, June, 25 2008
Gavan Mccormack
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Japanese politics are characterized by two related paradoxes: first, that the word "conservative" is usually applied to those who insist on the need to remake Japan's postwar society; and second, that those who most insist that Japan subordinate i...
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
