As Japan pushes for constitutional reform, it must face up to its imperial past
Japan’s politicians are in favour of constitutional reform – but remilitarisation could cause long-standing regional tensions to boil over.
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Propaganda, porn and Cold War politics: How the West destabilised Indonesia
In 1965, the Indonesian Army began an anti-communist purge that would lead to the massacre of at least 500,000 people. Recently declassified documents have revealed that both London and Washington had a guiding hand.
Read moreIndia’s Invasion Of Portuguese Goa
India’s independence from Britain in 1947 was not the final chapter of decolonisation on the subcontinent. Portugal clung onto its Indian enclaves into the 1960s, prompting a strong Indian response.
Read moreThe firebombing of North Korea
How United States bombers helped to turn North Korea into the paranoid military dictatorship it is today.
Read moreWhy are Chinese scrap metal merchants raiding WWII graves?
How a lucrative trade in WWII-era metal is leading to the disturbance of war graves throughout the Pacific.
Read moreThe Australian Holocaust: Extinction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians
There is little in British colonial history that casts as dark a shadow as what some have labelled the Aboriginal Tasmanian genocide. At the time of British settlement in 1803 there were an estimated four to seven thousand Indigenous Tasmanians, by 1847 there were just 147. While some mixed-race communities endured, the last full-blooded Tasmanian, Truganini, died in Hobart in
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