Tag: Asia
This is the second part of a two-part series, the first of which focused on Japan’s occupation of China prior to and during World War II, the human experimentation that occurred at Unit 731 (Japan’s bioweapons research facility in occupied Manchuria), and the after-effects of the Empire of the...
On September 3, 2025, the People’s Republic of China held a commemorative military parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over Imperial Japan in the second Sino-Japanese War.
The parade sparked outrage from Japan, inciting Tokyo’s leadership to urge European and Asian...
On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, an opposition leader with the Korean New Democratic Party (KNDP), was kidnapped by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) from the 22nd floor of the Grand Palace Hotel in Tokyo and drugged while he was imprisoned.
The plot was to swiftly eliminate Kim, though...
In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and...
The United States of America seeks to pretend that it earnestly is focused on enforcing the 1823 Monroe Doctrine toward Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its 2025 National Security Strategy and articles in the U.S. mainstream media seek to impart the perception of an America shifting away...
On two visits, this author witnessed North Korea’s economic boom first-hand
I visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or People’s Korea in April 2024 and then 18 months later in October 2025 after being invited by the Korean Association of Social Scientists (KASS).
The trips were organized by the British...
Walden Bello is a well-known figure in the Philippines who served in its House of Representatives and ran as a vice-presidential candidate on a social democratic ticket in the country’s 2022 elections.
For many years, Bello has also been a leading intellectual critic of neo-liberal ideology, showing in books and...
The son of the Iwo Jima flag-bearer in one of the most iconic photos in U.S history, James Bradley gained fame for his 2000 book Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood.
Offput at how Flags of Our Fathers was...
Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty.
When President Donald Trump strode onto the flight deck of the USS George Washington at Yokosuka,...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has appointed a big-time China hawk to its Board of Directors
On November 4, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot that finances dissident media and political organizations in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change—announced the appointment of John...
