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Issue 56 (April 2015, Volume 10, Number 2)

Issue 56 (April 2015, Volume 10, Number 2)

Contents

  • Japan’s Modern History, 1857-1937: A New Political Narrative

  • Destroying the World to Save it: Aum Shinrikyou, Apocalyptic Violence and the New Global Terrorism

  • Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice

  • Strange Weather in Tokyo

  • The Guest Cat

  • International Politics in Northeast Asia: The China-Japan- United States Strategic Triangle

Contributors

Guest Editor
William Cottrell
Special Reviewer
Sir Hugh Cortazzi

Reviewers
Chris Corker, Richard Coxford, Susan Meehan and Mike Sullivan

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