Articles by Gavan McCormack

• Obama vs Okinawa
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 5-26
  Subjects: Japan , United States
  

  Practical lessons in world hegemony, as Japan’s attempt to strike an independent course is cut down by the Obama Administration. For the islanders of Okinawa, another chapter in a centuries-old tale of military occupation.

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• Koizumi’s Coup
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 35, September-October 2005, pp. 5-16
  Subjects: Japan
  

  How and why Japanese voters rallied to a plebiscite on privatization, downing the first strong cocktail of neoliberalism and chauvinism—laced with submission to the United States—in East Asia. The make-over of the LDP, the eclipse of opposition, and the implications of handing Japan Post to global finance.

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• Remilitarizing Japan
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 29, September-October 2004, pp. 29-45
  Subjects: Japan , War and Peace
  

  Relations between Washington and Europe have been under the spotlight since 2001; less so those between the US and Japan. Koizumi’s constitution-breaking dispatch of SDF units to Iraq, and American strategies for containing China and re-arming the East Asian rim.

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• North Korea in the Vice
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 18, November-December 2002, pp. 5-27
  Subjects: Korea
  

  Abductions and missiles in Pyongyang; plans and postures of Washington and Tokyo, as the DPRK pursues survival. In Northeast Asia, the prospects for the last front of the Cold War and next battle against the Axis of Evil.

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• Breaking the Iron Triangle
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 13, January-February 2002, pp. 5-23
  Subjects: Japan , Economic Policy
  

  How close is what was once the strongest—now the weakest—link in the chain of world capital to snapping? Gavan McCormack looks at the mortmain of Japan’s construction state, and the extent of its devastation of the country’s physical environment and public finances alike.

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• Japan's Houdini
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 138-144
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Japan , War and Peace
  

  Gavan McCormack on Herbert Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. A pathbreaking study of the life and times of the Showa Emperor, and of his American protectors.

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• Kim Country: Hard Times in North Korea
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR I/198, March-April 1993, pp. 21-48
  Subjects: Korea
  

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• The Price of Affluence: The Political Economy of Japanese Leisure
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR I/188, July-August 1991, pp. 121-134
  Subjects: Japan
  

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• Japan and America: Antagonistic Alliance
  • Jon Halliday &
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR I/77, January-February 1973, pp. 59-74
  Subjects: Japan , United States , International Relations
  

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• The Student Left in Japan
  • Gavan McCormack

  in NLR I/65, January-February 1971, pp. 37-53
  Subjects: Japan , Student Movements
  

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