...Frank W. Iklé Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan: A Study of Post-War Trends . By Ivan Morris . London : Oxford University Press , 1960 . Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, xxvii , 476 . Note on Japanese Names, Appendices, Bibliographical...

...Raka Ray Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences . Edited by Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia . London and New Jersey : Zed Books Ltd. , 1995 . vi, 342 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 262 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Still...

...Bhanubhatra Jittiang In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand . By Tyrell Haberkorn . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2017 . xix, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780299314408 (cloth). Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok . By Michael Herzfeld . Chicago...

...Sungik Yang Abstract The New Right movement that arose in the early 2000s in South Korea was a response to a change in ownership of Korean nationalist discourse during the preceding decades. Although nationalism was the preserve of the South Korean right wing from the trusteeship crisis in 1945...

...George M. Wilson Abstract Postwar Japanese scholarship, in its quest to explain Japan's modern history, has yet to deal adequately with the so-called right wing. Survey histories sometimes write it off as a lunatic fringe, or equate it simply with militarism and putschism. My purpose here...

... the Communist-led National Unity Front and several right-wing opposition coalitions. The AFPFL and allied vote did not measure up to pre-election predictions but it again overwhelmingly captured control of the Chamber. The AFPFL, whose president was Prime Minister U Nu, conducted a vigorous campaign, running...

... a different attitude toward Mughals and the centuries-old Muslim culture in India, compared to how both historic rulers are viewed and represented by right-wing Hindu nationalists: Muslim Indians seem to be made part of the “other” rather than a part of an inclusive interpretation of the Indian “self...

...) and its right wing, English-educated leadership out of office. These forces represented a groundswell of the underprivileged against the privileged, and, as such, represented a radical socialist thrust. They also included a powerful strand of Sinhala nativism, i.e., of cultural nationalism, which made...

... touchy subjects such as war atrocities, war responsibility, and the continued existence of the emperor system in the postwar era. No doubt that threats of right-wing terrorism aimed at even the mildest of critics of Japan's involvement in the Fifteen-Year War (1931–45) have done their share...

...Kavita Philip Abstract In Bangalore, late in the summer of 2014, I listened to many animated conversations. There were political debates: the right-wing Hindu nationalist party had, earlier that summer, won national as well as state elections, evoking disparate reactions across society, sowing...

... the press, preventing the right of individuals to assemble, or detaining suspects before they had committed any crimes. Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian political activist who had been part of the progressive wing of the Indian National Congress, wrote from the United States, “India is a part of the world...

... Massacre and right-wing revisionists who deny those events or decry such efforts as masochistic and harmful to the national good. Part of the "problem," he notes, is that Japan is a democratic society where academic freedom to express unorthodox or even perniciously erroneous views must be honored...

... a global resurgence of right-wing authoritarian political culture, matched in intellectual circles by a resurgence of interest in historical precedents; within the China field, this attention has focused on the ideological foundations of China's right-wing Nationalist Party (Guomindang or GMD) in the 1930s...

... an excellent, detailed overview of what he calls the postwar "battle over history" in Japan between progressives who self-critically expose atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre and right-wing revisionists who deny those events or decry such efforts as masochistic and harmful to the national good. Part...

... of movement activities in order to make systematic comparisons of movement strategies and accomplishments. Her work highlights the strengths and weaknesses of two wings of the women's movement: a rights wing, which aims at moving the state to enhance rights and opportunities for women, and an empowerment wing...

... by right-wing Hindu political parties. In his chapter on communal riots, Khalidi lays out a typology of social violence (pp. 13 14). He argues that while Hindu-Muslim violence during British rule was "reciprocal violence between two communities" which were social and economic equals, after independence...

... the renunciation of this world. The essays by Teesta Setalvad, Flavia Agnes, and Sikata Banerjee focus on Bombay where the women's movement is strong and the right wing Shiv Sena is in power. The very success of the women's movement has placed women's issues firmly on the agenda in Bombay. Capitalizing...

... on the ideologically diverse left- and right-wing political monks in the light of the dramatic changes taking place in Thailand during the "open" period of Thai politics from 1973 to 1976. These case studies provide texture and depth to our understanding of the tactics, strategies, attitudes, and behavior of monks...

... undo shi' [A history of the Japanese socialist movement]. Ed. SAKISAKA ITSURO". Muromachi Shinsho 104. Tokyo :Muromachi Shobo, 1955. 261. 140 yen. The remarkable gains made by the Japanese Socialists in recent elections and now the reunification of the left and right wings in October 1955 have...

... against sexual rights in the complicated milieu of Hindu right-wing politics. The collection looks at a range of archives and spaces, from footpath erotica in the city to middle-class consumption of love in social media, to queer sexual identity and sociality in small-town India. The anthology...