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April 4, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japan-South Korea Relations – 3

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Park Cheol Hee*

Kono Statement, North Korea card, strategic context, strategic weight, trilateral summit
March 25, 2014 National Commentaries
President Obama and Japan-South Korean Relations

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Sheila A. Smith

Kono Statement, Malaysia, Nuclear Security Summit, Philippines, TPP, Visiting Forces Agreement, wartime compensation
March 25, 2014 National Commentaries
Circling the Square: History and Alliance Management

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Lee Chung Min*

50th Anniversary of Normalization, Abe Shinzo, historical revisionism, Park Geun-hye, public opinion, trilateral summit
March 21, 2014 Review Article
‘Sino-Japanese Relations after the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain’

Michael Yahuda, Sino-Japanese Relations after the Cold War: Two tigers Sharing a Mountain (London: Routledge: 2013) Bilateral relations between pairs of Northeast Asian countries—China, Japan, and South Korea– […]

Audrye Wong

Balancing, hedging, Security dilemma, triangularity
March 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: South Korea (March 2014)

Two themes have been in the forefront in Korean media coverage of international relations in the region: diplomacy related to reunification and ROK-Japan relations. The former was sparked […]

Editorial Staff

Dokdo /Takeshima, Germany, Germany Reunification, reunions, textbooks, two-Korea policy, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights
March 7, 2014 Open Forum
Washington Insights: March 2014

The month of February was marked by a Japanese public relations blitz, to which DC audiences often responded, “where is South Korea in this strategy?” There was also […]

Editorial Staff

Abe's Nationalism, Alliance trilateralism, Balancing China, Japan-ROK relations, Northeast Asia Peace and Security Initiative, Obama's visit to Asia
February 21, 2014 Topics of the Month
Japan-South Korea Relations – 2

This article is available in hardcopy & eBook format at the following site: http://www.palgrave.com/kr/book/9781137541703

Park Cheol Hee*

Anti-Japaneseism, Balanced diplomacy, Kerry, Park, Shinzo Abe, trilateral cooperation
February 7, 2014 Open Forum
Japan’s Defense Reforms and Korean Perceptions of Japan’s Collective Self-Defense

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J. Berkshire Miller

constitutional revision, Korean sovereignty, National Defense Program Guidelines, National Security Strategy, summit meeting, Yasukuni Shrine
February 7, 2014 Country Reports
Country Report: Japan (February 2014)

This has been one of the richest periods for Japanese media coverage in memory. In covering Biden’s early December travel through the region at a time of renewed […]

Editorial Staff

Abe Shinzo, collective defense, Jang Song-Thaek, propaganda war, the China Dream, Yachi Shotaro, Yasukuni Shrine
January 27, 2014 Review Article
Chinese Books on Japanese and Korean Images of China

Wu Guangwei, Riben de Zhongguo xingxiang [How Japan Views China] (Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2010) Dong Xiangrong, Wang Xiaoleng, Li Yongchun, Hanguoren xinmuzhong de Zhongguo xingxiang [How the Koreans […]

Gilbert Rozman

image control, media bias, public opinion, right wing ideology, soft power, views of China