Japan Focus

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus is a peer-reviewed online journal focusing on the politics, modern history and society of the Asia-Pacific Region and Japan. I became an associate of the journal in the summer of 2007. I was attracted by it's strong philosophy of making up-to-the-minute articles by leading researchers available completely open access on the internet. Below is a list of my own contributions to Japan Focus, as author, translator and editor.

Article Series (as author/editor):

Testimony and War Memories in Japan (2010)

• Philip Seaton: Introduction

• Ayako Kurahashi, War Responsibility and the Family in Japan: Kurahashi Ayako’s My Father’s Dying Wish

• Philip Seaton, Historiography and Japanese War Nationalism: Testimony in Sensoron, Sensoron as Testimony


The Bases Issue Seen From Beyond Okinawa
 (2010)

• Kageyama Asako, Marines Go Home: Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan and Korea

• Fuse Yujin, The Complete Withdrawal of the US Military from Ecuador: A Victory for Sovereignty and Peace in Latin America


Alternative Summits, Alternative Perspectives: Beyond the 2008 G8 Summit
 (2008)

• Philip Seaton: Introduction
• Hugo Dobson, The 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako G8 Summit: neither summit nor plummet

• ann-elise lewallen, Indigenous at last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir

• Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton, The Hokkaido Toyako Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Reconciliation Initiatives: The “Peace, Reconciliation and Civil Society” Symposium

• Philip Seaton, The G8 Summit as “Local Event” in the Hokkaido Media


Articles:

'Vietnam and Iraq in Japan: Japanese and American Grassroots Peace Activism' (2008).


'Family, Friends and Furusato: "Home" in the formation of Japanese war memories' (2007).


Translations:

Kawazoe Makoto and Yuasa Makoto (2008) 'Action Against Poverty: Japan's Working Poor Under Attack'.


Takahashi Tetsuya (2006) 'The national politics of the Yasukuni Shrine'.