Chongryon Schools: North Korea’s Hidden Hand in Japan
When most people think about North Korea, images of both seclusion and hostility come to mind. North Korea is largely shunned by the international community–its...
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What the Tokyo Olympics Can Teach us About Foreign Labor and Immigration in an Aging Japan
Today, Japan is facing an unprecedented demographic crisis: of a population of over 125 million people, 29% are over the age of 65 while more than one in ten ar...
From Rising Sun to New Dawn: Japan’s Efforts in Cambodia’s Reconstruction
This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a foreign polic...
Abductions and Missile Aggression: How Historical Grievances Shape Japan-North Korea relations
Last December, Japan watched on uneasily as another North Korean missile made its way into the East Sea. This was the third test of North Korea’s newest p...
Atlantic Allies and Pacific Rivals: US Relationships with Britain and Japan Precipitating WWII
By the turn of the 20th century, the US was becoming a neutral isolationist great power alongside other great powers like Britain and Japan. As the US was lured...
How the Strength of LGBTQ+ Communities Indicates Differences in Freedom Across Asia
The the LGBTQ+ community has battled for decades to secure their basic human rights. This article analyzes the varying degrees of success of LGBTQ+ moveme...
Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities
3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...
Japanese Colonial Ideology in Korea (1905-1945)
Written by: Yi Wei, University of Toronto Japanese colonial ideology operated in Korea from the times of the Korean protectorate, in 1905, to the end of the Sec...
From Paris to Beijing: How the Shandong Decision Influenced the Communist Rise in China
Written by Zhou Xizhuang Michael Introduction Interpreting history is both an important and powerful process. It allows us to breathe life into dull, lifeless a...
Japanese Ninhonjinron and 1890s American Social Darwinism: Looking to the Past for a Solution to Japan’s Vicious Cycle of Homogeneity
This piece originally appeared in the Intercollegiate Issue 2017 of the Yale Review of International Studies. This piece was written by David Ta-Wei Huang, a ju...
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