2021-03-15

Articles by Gavan McCormack The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor of the Australian National University in Canberra, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a founding editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. His recent publications include: 



Gavan McCormack
Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances

Gavan McCormack
Abe Shinzo and Japan’s One-Strong (Ikkyo) State

Gavan McCormack
Irresistible Force (Japan) Versus Immovable Object (Okinawa): Struggle Without End?

Wada Haruki, translated by Gavan McCormack
The North Korean Peace Process and the Abduction Problem: A Japanese Role?¹

Gavan McCormack
The Henoko Base Project: Okinawa’s Tamaki Government at the Brink

Gavan McCormack and Kate Belevets
Grappling with Clientelism: The Japanese State and Okinawa under Abe Shinzo

Urashima Etsuko
A New Governor and a New Era for Okinawa Reflections of an All-Okinawa Activist

Gavan McCormack
Hidaka Rokuro, 1917-2018 – The Life and Times of an Embattled Japanese Intellectual

Gavan McCormack
The Abe State and Okinawan Protest – High Noon 2018

Yamashiro Hiroji, Urashima Etsuko, Miyagi Yasuhiro, Iha Yoichi and Yoshikawa Hideki Introduced by Gavan McCormack
Five Okinawan Views on the Nago Mayoral Election of February 2018: Implications for Japanese Democracy

Hideki Yoshikawa, with an introduction by Gavan McCormack
U.S. Military Base Construction at Henoko-Oura Bay and the Okinawan Governor’s Strategy to Stop It

Gavan McCormack
North Korea and a Rules-Based Order for the Indo-Pacific, East Asia, and the World

Gavan McCormack
“There Will Be No Stopping the Okinawan Resistance,” an Interview with Yamashiro Hiroji

Gavan McCormack
The Japanese State versus the People of Okinawa: Rolling Arrests and Prolonged and Punitive Detention

Gavan McCormack
Japan: Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s Agenda

Gavan McCormack and Yoshikawa Hideki
Okinawa: NGO Appeal to the United Nations and to US Military and Government over Base Matters, December 2015 and December 2016

Heianna Sumiyo, Gavan McCormack and Norma Field
Grassroots Struggle in the US and Okinawa: The Visible and the Invisible

Urashima Etsuko
Looking Towards Nirai Kanai

Gavan McCormack
Japan’s Problematic Prefecture – Okinawa and the US-Japan Relationship

Gavan McCormack
“Ceasefire” on Oura Bay: The March 2016 Japan-Okinawa “Amicable Agreement” Introduction and Six Views from within the Okinawan Anti-Base Movement

Gavan McCormack
The Ginowan Mayoral – Okinawan Currents and Counter-Currents

Gavan McCormack
Battle Stations—Okinawa in 2016

Gavan McCormack
To the Courts! To the Streets! Okinawa at December 2015

What’s Hot
Ashitomi Hiroshi and Gavan McCormack
Urgent Okinawan Appeal for Help

FEATURE
Gavan McCormack
Introduction: The Experts Report and the Future of Okinawa

FEATURE
Sakurai Kunitoshi
To Whom Does the Sea Belong? Questions Posed by the Henoko Assessment

Gavan McCormack
Striving for “Normalization” – Korea-Japan Civic Cooperation and the Attempt to Resolve the “Comfort Women” problem


Gavan McCormack
“All Japan” versus “All Okinawa” - Abe Shinzo’s Military-Firstism

Gavan McCormack
Storm Ahead: Okinawa's Outlook for 2015

Gavan McCormack
The End of the Postwar? The Abe Government, Okinawa, and Yonaguni Island

Urashima Etsuko and Gavan McCormack
Okinawa’s “Darkest Year”

Gavan McCormack
The Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy in Japan – Nago City, Okinawa

Gavan McCormack
Bitter Soup For Okinawans - The Governor’s Year-End Betrayal

Gavan McCormack
Introduction: The Continued Saga of the Henoko Base and Japan-US-Okinawa Relations

Gavan McCormack
Japan’s Client State (Zokkoku) Problem

Gavan McCormack
Okinawa Facing a Hot Summer: Introduction and Four Texts translated from Japanese

Gavan McCormack
Much Ado over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu

Gavan McCormack and Sakurai Kunitoshi
Okinawans Facing a Year of Trial: the Okinawa-Japan-US Relationship and the East China Sea

What’s Hot
Gavan McCormack
Doug Bandow: Give Okinawa Back To The Okinawans

What’s Hot
Gavan McCormack
Fukushima: An Assessment of the Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown —

What’s Hot
Gavan McCormack
Dilemma of a Japanese Island: Territorial Defense in the East China Sea and Yonaguni Island

What’s Hot
Gavan McCormack


Gavan McCormack
Abe Days Are Here Again: Japan in the World

Gavan McCormack
Yonaguni: Dilemmas of a Frontier Island in the East China Sea

Satoko Oka Norimatsu and Gavan McCormack
Ryukyu/Okinawa, From Disposal to Resistance

Gavan McCormack
Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and East China Sea Domains (and Claims)

Urashima Etsuko and Gavan McCormack
Okinawa’s Nature Groaning – Let’s Turn Mt Kushi into a Forest of Life. On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the San Francisco Treaty and the Fortieth Anniversary of Okinawa’s Reversion to Japan−−6040

Gavan McCormack
North Korea's 100th – Celebrations Gone Awry100−−

Gavan McCormack
North Korea's 100th – To Celebrate or To Surrender?100−−

Gavan McCormack
Mage – Japan’s Island Beyond the Reach of the Law−−

Urashima Etsuko, Sakurai Kunitoshi and Gavan McCormack
Okinawa, New Year 2012: Tokyo’s Year End Surprise Attack

Satoko Oka Norimatsu and Gavan McCormack
Discordant Visitors: Japanese and Okinawan Messages to the US−−

Gavan McCormack
Deception and Diplomacy: The US, Japan, and Okinawa−− •Japanese text available

Gavan McCormack
Hubris Punished: Japan as Nuclear State−−

Gavan McCormack
Contested Waters - Contested Texts: Storm over Korea's West Sea−−

Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Mark Selden and Gavan McCormack
New Year 2011, Okinawa and the Future of East Asia2011

Gavan McCormack
Small Islands – Big Problem: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Weight of History and Geography in China-Japan Relations−−−/ •Japanese, Korean and Chinese texts available

Gavan McCormack
The Battle of Okinawa 2010: Japan-US Relations at a Crossroad2010−−

Gavan McCormack
Ideas, Identity and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: The Sato Masaru Phenomenon−−

Gavan McCormack
Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 150—1

Gavan McCormack
Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 250—2

Gavan McCormack
Ampo's Troubled 50th: Hatoyama's Abortive Rebellion, Okinawa's Mounting Resistance and the US-Japan Relationship - Part 350—3 [Macedonian, Ukrania, Russian and PolishTranslations Available]

Gavan McCormack
The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty−−

Gavan McCormack
The US-Japan 'Alliance', Okinawa, and Three Looming Elections

Urashima Etsuko and Gavan McCormack
Electing a Town Mayor in Okinawa: Report from the Nago Trenches [Updated] [Korean translation available]

Gavan McCormack
The Battle of Okinawa 2009: Obama vs Hatoyama [Japanese translation]

Gavan McCormack
The Road to Copenhagen [Korean and Japanese translations available]

Gavan McCormack
History Too Long Denied: Japan's Unresolved Colonial Past and Today's North Korea Problem

Gavan McCormack
Security Council Condemnation of North Korean "UFO" Deepens Korean Crisis

Kim Dong-choon and Gavan McCormack
Grappling with Cold War History: Korea's Embattled Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Gavan McCormack
Hillary in Japan - The Enforcer

Gavan McCormack
Okinawa's Turbulent 400 Years [Japanese text available]

Gavan McCormack
Facing the Past: War and Historical Memory in Japan and Korea [Korean text available]

Gavan McCormack
The Okinawan Alternative to Japan's Dependent Militarism [Japanese translation available]

Gavan McCormack
Korea at 60 [Korean translation available]

Gavan McCormack
August Nuclear Thoughts: the New Proliferation (Available in Korean)

T Matsumoto and Gavan McCormack
Okinawa Says "No" to US-Japan Base Plan

Gavan McCormack
"Conservatism" and "Nationalism". The Japan Puzzle

Gavan McCormack
Japan as a Plutonium Superpower

Gavan McCormack
North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order

Gavan McCormack
Abe and Okinawa: Collision Course?

Gavan McCormack
Japan as a Nuclear State

Gavan McCormack
Fitting Okinawa into Japan the "Beautiful Country"

Gavan McCormack
A Denuclearization Deal in Beijing: The Prospect of Ending the 20th Century in East Asia

S Kamiya, Yonhap News and Gavan McCormack
Yokohama and Seoul: Dealing With Crimes of State in Japan and South Korea

Gavan McCormack
The Okinawan Election and Resistance to Japan's Military First Politics

Gavan McCormack
Criminal States: Soprano vs. Baritone - North Korea and the US

John Junkerman, David McNeill and Gavan McCormack
Japan's Political and Constitutional Crossroads

Gavan McCormack
"The North Korean Problem", Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy

Urashima Etsuko, M Sato and Gavan McCormack
The Nago Mayoral Election and Okinawa s Search for a Way Beyond Bases and Dependence

Gavan McCormack
North Korea and the US "Strategic Decision"

Gavan McCormack
Tide Change in Saga, Japan

Gavan McCormack
Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion

Gavan McCormack
Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance

Gavan McCormack and Wada Haruki
The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations

Gavan McCormack
The Umbrella and the Mushroom: Realism and Extremism on North Korea

Gavan McCormack
Japan's Sixtieth

Gavan McCormack
A North Korean Visitor to the White House

Gavan McCormack
Disputed Bones: Japan, North Korea and the 'Nature' Controversy

Gavan McCormack
Looking Back at the Occupation -- The US and Japan over 60 Years




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