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Dec 27, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Kenji Yoshida |Jason Morgan
Foreign Affairs
Shifting Sands: South Korea’s Future and Navigating Trump 2.0
What implications might the South Korean president’s impeachment hold for American policy in east Asia?
On December 14, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached by parliament following his abortive martial law decree earlier that month. With Yoon’s fate now hinging on a pending Constitutional Court decision, speculation of possible early presidential elections is rising.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Jason Morgan
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law. From that moment to this, pundits in East Asia, the United States, and elsewhere have been busy whipping themselves into a furor rivaled only by the scenes of open-air chaos in downtown Seoul. “Yoon is a dictator!” the pundits and South Korean protestors cried.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Jason Morgan
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Foreign Affairs
Japan’s Leadership Race Is a Puppet-Show
The ruling LDP declines to challenge—or even acknowledge—the elephant in the room.
It’s election season again in Japan—kind of. A new prime minister is set to be chosen on September 27. In reality, though, the race is a farce, and Japan’s democracy is a sham. Washington calls the shots here.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Jason Morgan |Joseph Addington
Foreign Affairs
Japan Is Getting Fed Up With American Hypocrisy
Ambassador Rahm Emanuel’s antics over the Nagasaki memorial service provoked protest.
On August 9, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress Bockscar opened her bomb bay doors in the skies over Nagasaki, a heavily Catholic city in Kyushu, southwestern Japan.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
dawgpounddaily.com | Jason Morgan
Myles Garrett continues to earn the respect of fellow players, coaches, and top executives around the league; ranked as the fifth-best player returning for the 2024 season. By Jason Morgan | 12:26 PM EDTThe NFL Network releases the Top 100 players returning the following season each year. One of the greatest things about this list is that the players vote themselves, which takes away the biased views from fans, all of whom would argue for their respective favorites.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | Jason Morgan
Visitors to the Golden Hall of Chuson-ji Temple special exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum should prepare themselves. They will have their breath taken away. The exhibition occupies part of the first floor of the main Museum hall. On entering, visitors are met with a towering screen alive with scintillating color. 8K resolution graphics fill the screen with a lifesize representation of the central altar (shumidan) of the Golden Hall of Chuson-ji.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
japan-forward.com | Jason Morgan
"Ganbare! Ganbare!!"A chorus of exhortative shouts swells as I spot the first runners rounding the bend. A crowd of thousands, gathered early one crisp fall morning at Showa Memorial Park in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, stirs to life, cheering on the fleet-footed athletes. We are here to watch the qualifying meet for the Hakone Ekiden. The main race in January is a New Year's tradition in Japan. Sometimes called "the greatest race on earth," the Hakone Ekiden is a grueling two-day relay race.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
japan-forward.com | Jason Morgan
In September 2023, I interviewed several members of the Delaney family, descendants of the late Thomas Ronald (TR) Delaney. TR Delaney was an American lawyer. Soon after the war he had been a member of the prosecution at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). More commonly, the postwar court was known as the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. Two members of the Delaney family participating in the interview, Susan and Jerry, had lived with their parents in Occupation-Era Japan.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
japan-forward.com | Jason Morgan
In February 1947, an American lawyer named Thomas Ronald ("TR") Delaney (1905-1989) arrived in occupied Japan. He had been sent by Washington, DC to take part in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), more commonly known as the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946-1948). Attorney Delaney's family–wife Julia and six children–soon joined him in Japan. TR Delaney had gone to Japan as part of a judgment against a defeated nation.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
japan-forward.com | Jason Morgan
Munakata Shiko's woodcut prints are immediately recognizable to art fans worldwide. Bold lines, dramatic color contrasts, block shapes framed by swirling arabesques, expressive eyes, and playful smiles. These are just some of the hallmarks that make a Munakata stand out in any museum. But who is Munakata Shiko the artist? Some readers may know him as the jolly-looking man with wavy hair and thick, round spectacles, famous for his highly animated style of carving his works.
