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Africa and Middle East
End to All Wars? The Washington Naval Conference
Following World War I, many of the largest nations around the world sought a way to limit the likelihood that…
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Korean Comfort Women Deserve an Apology but Lai Dai Han Do Too
The long and tumultuous history of Asian occupations of other Asian nations during wartime is never pretty. War itself is…
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Seoul, Tokyo Spar over Recognition of Korean Comfort Women
South Korea and Japan continue to spar over issues ruminating from World War II. Recently, Seoul moved to shut down…
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Commodore Perry and the Globalization of Japan
At the time of Commodore Perry, Japan was ruled by the Shogun of the Tokugawa family. This ruling class was…
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Beijing’s Manipulation of Korean Comfort Women
After the First Gulf War, China realized that it would unlikely be able to defeat the United States on the…
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Boundaries: Dokdo or Takeshima?
The two small islands are only 47 acres in total, but the waters surrounding Dokdo/Takeshima are fertile fishing grounds. There…
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Roosevelt’s Big Stick Foreign Policy
Roosevelt and the Panama Canal Following the discovery of gold in California in the mid-1800s spurred an interest in connecting…
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Democracy in the ROK, Korean Comfort Women and Colonialism
Dr. Park Yuha set out to tell the real, raw and uncomfortable history of Korean comfort women. Through her research,…
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Boundaries: South China Sea
Waterways have been a source of dispute for a long, long time. Many disputes arise when it comes to the…
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Will There Be International Arbitration over Korean Comfort Women?
The highest court in South Korea ordered Japan to compensate four former workers of the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal…
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