| Asia
Mixed over Baghdad's Fall |
From BBC News (April 10, 2003) |
| Asia's
Reactions to the War in Iraq |
An Asia Society special report (March 28, 2003):
general; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; AustralAsia; Web
special reports |
| Asian
Press Response to the War in Iraq |
"Comment and analysis from New Delhi,
Taipei, Tokyo, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Lucknow, Karachi,
Seoul, and Dhaka" |
| Attempting
Analogy: Japanese Manchuria and Occupied Iraq |
Commentary by Jonathan Dresner, University of
Hawai'i at Hilo (History News Network, May 31, 2004) |
| Caught
in America's War: South Korea and Iraq |
Ha-yun Jung's New York Times editorial
in the wake of the execution of a South Korean hostage in Iraq (June
30, 2004) |
| China
Stresses UN Role in Postwar Iraqi Affairs |
A People's Daily news story (April
10, 2003) |
| China's
Media Wary on Iraq's Fall |
Analysis by Francis Markus, BBC Shanghai correspondent
(April 10, 2003) |
| China's
Reaction to America's Iraq Imbroglio |
Commentary by Willy Lam (China Brief,
Apr. 15, 2004) |
| ChinaNews.com:
The Iraq War |
(in Chinese) News & photos; Chinese official
position |
| Chinese
Media Coverage of War in Iraq |
Survey by Yin Lijuan and Xiong Lei for World
Press Review (April 9, 2003) |
| Chinese
media's new-found freedom |
Assessment of Chinese press coverage of the
Iraq War by BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (3/24/2003) |
| Community
Media Put Ethnic Feel on Iraq War: They Seek Local Angles in a
Global News Story |
Dan Fost's analysis of media of Asian & other
ethnic communities in the U.S. (San Francisco Chronicle,
April 9, 2003) |
| Debate
between Anti- & Pro-War Academics |
(in Chinese) Article in Nanfang Zhoumo on
the debate triggered by a petition protesting U.S. war plans against
Iraq presented to the U.S. embassy in Beijing on Feb. 18, 2003 |
| Disdain
and Doubt Over Shock and Awe: The View From China |
Joshua Samuel Brown's essay on Chinese media
coverage of the Iraq War (March 26, 2003) |
| From
Baghdad to Manila - Another Lousy analogy for the Occupation of
Iraq |
Fred Kaplan on Bush's analogy between Iraq & the
U.S. occupation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American
War (Slate, Oct. 21, 2003) |
| From
Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004: War Crimes in Perspective |
Commentary by Herbert P. Bix (Japan Focus, May
2004) |
| Germany,
Japan and the De-Baathification of Post-Saddam Iraq |
Douglas Porch's analysis for the Center for
Contemporary Conflict (CCC) (March 7, 2003) |
| Hashi-yan's
Last Dispatch from Iraq |
Adam Lebowitz on Hashida Shinsuke, Japanese
journalist killed in Iraq & author of Screaming 'Idiot' in the
Middle of Iraq (Japan Focus, 2004) |
| Imperial
Amnesia |
John B. Judis on the historical parallels between
the U.S. invasions of Iraq, Mexico, & the Philippines (Foreign
Policy, July/Aug. 2004) |
| In
Far East of Many Muslims, Press Is Anti-U.S. but Hardly Pro-Jihad |
Seth Mydans' analysis of reactions in Southeast
Asia for the New York Times (April 11, 2003; free registration
required) |
| Iraq
Is Not Japan |
Chalmers Johnson's comparison between Iraq & Japan
during the American Occupation (Los Angeles Times) |
| Iraq
- Our Region Reacts |
Radio Australia's documentation of Asia-Pacific
region's reactions, with interactive maps |
| The
Issue of Iraq |
Documents from Prime Minister Koizumi & his
cabinet |
| Japan’s
Internet Literary Response to 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq Wars |
Maria Flutsch's study of Internet protest literature
with special focus on themes in Japanese poetry (Proceedings
of the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association
of Australia in Canberra, 2004; PDF format) |
| Japan's
Reconstruction Aid Leaves the Citizens of Samawa Desperate |
Maekawa Mitsuo's report on growing Iraqi discontent
with the performance of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (Japan
Focus, Dec. 2004) |
| Japanese
Diet Members' Attitudes on the Attack on Iraq |
(in Japanese) Results of a survey |
| Koizumi
Trades Baghdad for Pyongyang |
J Sean Curtin on the Japanese Prime Minister's
reasons for supporting the U.S. (Asia Times, March 18, 2003) |
| Notes
From Ground Zero: Power, Equity and Postwar Reconstruction in Two
Eras |
Mark Selden addressing the question whether "the
Japanese occupation really illuminate contemporary reconstructions
in Iraq, Afghanistan and other contemporary war-torn societies" (Japan
Focus, July 2004) |
| Occupation
Preoccupation |
Japan historian John Dower on the "differences
between the occupation of Japan and the likely postwar rule of Iraq" (New
York Times Magazine, 3/30/2003; free registration
required) |
| Online
Anti-war Activism Gains Momentum in Japan |
Tim Clark's essay for Japan Media Review (4/3/2003) |
| The
Russo-Japanese War and the Iraq War |
Commentary on the contradiction between globalization & nationalism
by Akira Iriye, Harvard Univ. (translated from Asahi Shimbun, March
6, 2004) |
| Silent
Diplomacy Serves Japan Poorly |
Former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka's views
on the Iraq situation (The Japan Times Online, March 5,
2003) |
| The
Paradox of American Power: Commentary |
People's Daily editorial (Mar. 14,
2003) |
| War
Poses a Double Dilemma for China |
Jasper Becker's analysis in the International
Herald Tribune (March 28, 2003) |
| A
Warning from History: Don't Expect Democracy in Iraq |
John W. Dower's essay comparing Iraq to occupied
Japan (Feb./March 2003 special issue of Boston Review: War
and Democracy) |
| Views
of a Changing World 2003: War With Iraq Further Divides Global
Publics |
A Pew Global Attitudes Project survey conducted
in 20 countries & the Palestinian Authority (June 3, 2003) |
| War
Atrocities From Manchuria to Abu Ghraib: a Japanese veteran remembers |
Interview of a former military policeman (MP)
in the Japanese Army (Japan Times, June 15, 2004) |
| War
in Iraq |
Special report from Singapore-based Channel
NewsAsia, including discussion forum |
| Who'll
Pay Money for US-Planned 'Toppling Saddam'? |
A People's Daily commentary (March
13, 2003) |
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