Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2015

JAPANESE MILITARISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

• “Equal Punishment For All:” Japan’s View of the Tokyo Trial

• Yukio Mishima: Autobiography as Political Fiction

• Reflections of an American Sailor in East Asia Concerning the Role of the American Military in the Region

INDIAN PRIME MINISTERS

• Shaping India’s “Tryst with Destiny”

THE VIETNAM WAR: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Yellow Chrysanthemums Covered With Tear Stains And Tarnished with Blood. The Battles For Saigon and Hue During the Tet Offensive of 1968

• Battle of “Hamburger Hill,” May 10-20, 1969. The Beginning of the End of America’s Commitment to the Republic of Vietnam

• The Final Act: The Battle of Xuan Lock and the Fall of Saigon

CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON JAPANESE SOCIETY

• Ninja in the Dragon’s Den: Regional Imaginaries in East Asian Action Drama

• Accepting Cognitive Dissonance: Japanese Exclusivity, Nihonjinron, and the Demographic Crisis in Japan

• Higher Education for Women in Japan: A Case Study of Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts

CHINESE LITERATURE

• Parameters of Performability: Wang Zuoliang’s Translation of Thunderstorm

CHINA AND COLONIAL AMERICA

• Defending The American Colonies: Benjamin Franklin’s Great Wall, 1756-1776

THE UNITED STATES, EBOLA AND AFRICA

• The United States Interests in the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

RESOURCE GUIDE FOR TEACHERS

• A Digital Teaching Interdisciplinary Resources Essay: The Economies of Japan, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan

• Caught Between Two Countries: Zainichi Koreans in Japan

COMMENTARY: JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATION

• Commentary: Changing Perceptions of Americans and Japanese

BOOK REVIEWS

• Richard Reeves, Infamy: The Shocking Story of Japanese Internment in World War II.
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
  
  Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Opert Long, Eds., Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty.
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
  
  Sabita Goswami, Along the Red River: A Memoir.
  Reviewed by R. Radhakrishnan
  
  Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito.
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux