Books & arts
6 August 2025
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s campaign against nuclear annihilation
Books & arts
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
National affairs
6 November 2017
Malcolm Turnbull could have responded in any of three ways to New Zealand’s offer to resettle refugees. Either of the two alternatives he rejected would have been more just and…
National affairs
16 December 2016
Controversy over a statue in the city’s inner west has deep historical roots
International
15 July 2014
Japan’s constitutional renunciation of war shouldn’t be seen as an aberration, write Tessa Morris-Suzuki, David Chapman and Carolyn Stevens
International
6 December 2012
A nationalist troika formed in the run-up to this month’s Japanese election poses challenges for the region
International
28 August 2012
For Hashimoto Toru – hailed by many as a future national leader – it’s out with human rights and in with government-authored history
International
29 December 2011
Kim Jong-un’s accession comes at a time of change in the region, underlining the need for a nuanced response from Western countries
International
18 March 2011
Japan can emerge from this disaster strengthened and more vigorous