Asian History 
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/5/2023
Can Japan-Korea Relations Resolve Historical Disputes?
The government of South Korea has dropped its demand for Japanese companies to pay victims of forced labor during World War II. Many Koreans have called the concession a national humiliation, and some surviving victims say they won't accept compensation from Korean sources.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/16/2022
Salman Rushdie Changed Everything
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures.
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/18/2022
American Militarism is the Key to Understanding Today's Violence Against Asian Women
Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today.
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SOURCE: National Interest
12/7/2021
Eighty Years Ago, Japan Assaulted More Than Pearl Harbor
by Mindy L. Kotler
Memorializing the attacks on the American military base at Pearl Harbor often obscures the attacks against the wider Pacific launched by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, attacks with consequences that endure today.
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6/13/2021
A Celebrity Apology and the Reality of Taiwan
by Evan Dawley
Actor John Cena's blunder into the Taiwan-China controversy should be an opportunity for Americans to learn more about the history of this conflict and of an independent Taiwanese identity that has been shaped by Japanese colonization, Chinese nationalism, war, and the Communist revolution.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/16/2021
Mexico Faces Up to Uneasy Anniversary of Chinese Massacre
The 1911 massacre of Chinese laborers in the town of Torreón shows that Asian migrants were subjected to mass violence throughout the Americas. The Mexican government and society have only recently begun to acknowledge this and other incidents.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/11/2021
The Underground Activists Who Fought for Freedom Across Asia
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
A new book on the movements against colonial rule in Asia looks to grassroots movements and multiple ideological and political groups and challenges "great man" ideas of national liberation.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/23/19
America’s Secret History in East Asia
by Alexis Dudden
Japan and South Korea are at odds today because Washington has been playing favorites for decades.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/8/2019
Why Japan and South Korea Still Spar Over History
Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended more than seven decades ago yet that legacy still roils everyday politics on both sides of the strait.
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