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Autor:
J E Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 52:497-499
In my later years in the FCO, I worked on issues relating to claims for compensation by British former prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese. The British position was that all such issues had bee...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 52:253-255
2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Although referred to as the “Forgotten War”, overshadowed by the Second World War and by later conflicts, a huge amount on the subjec...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 52:249-251
Today, Koreans are scattered all over the world. We have met them as tourists and in business everywhere, running restaurants in Iceland and Kyrgyzstan, driving taxis in the USA, teaching all over ...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 52:251-253
Visiting or working in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK – North Korea), you quickly become aware of the all-pervasiveness of music. Stay in a hotel in the capital, Pyongyang, and you...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 51:741-743
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 51:237-239
On 14 September 1862, an incident, largely forgotten in Britain but not in Japan, took place on the Tokaido, the high road that ran between Edo (now Tokyo) and Kyoto. Four foreigners were riding fr...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 51:240-242
For a place that is regularly referred to by the cliche ‘The Hermit Kingdom’, a remarkable number of books about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, as it is usually k...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 50:174-176
For their size, it is remarkable how the small foreign communities of the East Asian treaty ports produced so many newspapers. Titles such as the North China Herald or the Japan Mail are well known...
Autor:
J E Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 52:778-779
In January 2021, Jung H. Pak, a former CIA analyst and author of Becoming Kim Jong Un, became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the United States Dep...
Autor:
J. E. Hoare
Publikováno v:
Asian Affairs. 51:740-741
Since the early 1990s, the term “Comfort Women” has become widely used internationally. The term is of course, a euphemism, camouflaging the real nature of what happened to women who were recruited...