What began in the 1940s as a revolutionary army created to liberate Myanmar from British colonial rule soon turned repressive. The country has been a military dictatorship on and off since 1962.
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Japan’s 86-year-old Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 30 — an exceedingly rare event for this ancient monarchy. Can his son, Prince Naruhito, give Japan’s royal family a modern makeover?
Gina Haspel is in hot water over the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’. And in decades past, the US imprisoned people for using the same methods.
Children end up caught in the political crossfire.
One ceremony on V J Day announced that the Sumatra railway had been completed, the construction of which had cost more than 80,000 lived and that 70 years later is still a little known story.
In the wake of the atomic bombs, a number of Japanese animators would question mankind’s relationship with technology.
In 1943, during the height of World War II, fifteen-year-old Liu Mianhuan was tied up and taken away by Imperial Japanese troops from her village in Yu County, Shanxi Province, China. She was confined…
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Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Director of Asian Studies Program, Vassar College
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Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Research Fellow, King's College London
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of World Cultures and Languages, Northern Illinois University
