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Impact of History

Introductory chapter

• History gains weight when intertwined with politics(06/18)
• Changing history education (06/18)

Chapter 1

• Japan had good intelligence about China's losing fight in Opium War (07/22)
• A reckless adventure in Taiwan amid Meiji Restoration turmoil (07/22)
• INTERVIEW/ Chin Shunshin: History is invariably written by conquerors (09/03)

Chapter 2

• Spark for Sino-Japanese War was triggered in Seoul (08/24)
• East China Sea is as troubled as it was during Sino-Japanese War (08/24)
• INTERVIEW/ Kazutoshi Hando: Japan's war machine reeked of incompetence (09/08)
• INTERVIEW/ Bu Ping: Time for us to adapt to the changed face of Asia (10/04)

Chapter 3

• For fleeting moment, Togo's victory raised Asian hopes (09/28)
• Railway network was key to Japanese army's control of Korea (09/28)
• Takeshima islets, an issue where ethnic pride still rules the day (09/28)
• INTERVIEW/ Chen Kaige: Moving toward a new Asian balance of power (09/28)
• INTERVIEW/ Teruo Hiyane: Okinawa shares much in common with Asia (12/12)

Chapter 4

• Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution of 1911 had its seeds in Tokyo (10/29)
• Tokyo rally triggered 1919 independence movements in Korea, China (10/29)
• INTERVIEW/ Chung Jae Jeong: For better and for worse, Japan shaped Asia (11/02)
• INTERVIEW/ Yoko Kato: Hard lessons from East Asia's painful change(11/16)

Chapter 5

• Search for the truth leads to U.N. archives in Geneva (11/30)
• For Japan, its slogans for Manchukuo were pie in the sky (11/30)
• INTERVIEW/ Andrew Gordon: 'Modern girls' had a major impact on society (12/04)
• INTERVIEW/ Shinichi Kitaoka: Nationalism a running theme in Asian history(12/28)

Chapter 6

• Japan underestimated changes in China, the world (12/28)
• Vital role of a small bridge against the Japanese army (12/28)
• INTERVIEW/ Kazuhiko Kimijima: War crime tribunal created attitudes of denial(01/12)
• INTERVIEW/ Kwon Okie: Asia's history is irrevocably tied to the U.S.(01/19)

Chapter 7

• Guilt over war dead blurred Japan's sound judgment (02/01)
• Why Japanese fought on both sides of China's civil war (02/01)
• INTERVIEW/ Hiroshi Mitani: East Asia had times of peace as well as conflict(02/07)
• INTERVIEW/ Liu Jie: East Asia's future depends on China's direction(02/18)

Chapter 8

• Small town caught in the cross-fire of Korean War (03/03)
• South Koreans rushed to the battlefield of Vietnam War (03/03)
• INTERVIEW/ Kazuko Mori: Modern China's impact has yet to be defined(03/03)
• INTERVIEW/ Park Yu-ha: Past 150 years was an era of raw human greed(03/10)

Chapter 9

• Lingering frictions haunt Japan-South Korea ties(04/01)
• Ping-Pong diplomatic offensive had its roots in Nagoya (04/01)
• INTERVIEW/ Kazuo Ogura: People, not events, shaped modern history(04/01)
• Interview/ Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Juggling events puts historical issues in perspective(04/21)

Chapter 10

• China's unparalleled experiment initiated by Deng Xiaoping(04/28)
• Painful democratic awakenings for South Korea, Taiwan (04/28)
• INTERVIEW/ Shinichi Yamamuro: China is once more a challenge for the world(05/07)
• INTERVIEW/ Wu Mi-cha: Taiwanese nationalism a model for all of Asia(06/02)