Timothy Webster (Whittier): Insular Minorities: International Law's Challenge to Japan's Ethnic Homogeneity. Minglian Han (Jinan): The Appeal of Marshall McLuhan in Contemporary China. From the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, a special issue on the state and religion in China. From The Atlantic, Alan Taylor goes inside North Korea; and just after Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China quelled its own "Jasmine" protests; is the Chinese public less satisfied — and more combustible — than it appears? (and more) Will crisis help Japan get out of its longstanding slump? The Long Goodbye: Robert D. Kaplan and Abraham M. Denmark on the future North Korea. Zen, Japan and the art of democracy: Foreign observers have long been baffled by Japan’s self-discipline in the face of multiple disasters, from earthquakes and tsunamis

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