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Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System Paradigm, 2007

Rethinking Nuclear Weapons

Could China be the next world hegemon? Will it collaborate with other nations to break the US grip on the rules of the global economy? John Gulick considers whether China has the resources and endowments to take over as world leader. Also, Ward Wilson argues in an essay that Japan's decision to surrender in 1945 was not compelled by the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Yoda & Harootunian, eds., Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present Duke U. Press, 2006

No! G8 Action

Robert Weil, "City of Youth" on the China Study Group website

Does dissent happen in Japan, an economic powerhouse around which stereotypes of Japanese homogeneity and obedient conformity abound? Sabu Kohso is organizing resistance to the upcoming G8 summit in Hokkaido; he's also written about recent social movements and workers' struggles in Japan. Workers are also struggling in China, in places like Shenzhen; Robert Weil describes recent developments.