News Update:  Japanese textbook controversy, Japan-China over History Issue, WWII veteran back to China from Burma, Taiwan-China Issue, China Halted its Diplomatic Exchanges with NK, Weekly Update - June 12, Gate of Independence were posted on June 12, 2009.

News Update: Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March, Nanjing!Nanjing! - Follow Up 2, Reaction to N-korea's second nuclear experiment, Moves for Reducing/Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, Memories of Japanese Invasion in Korea, Economic Ties Tightened between China and Taiwan, US appoints Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr as the envoy to China, Weekly Update - June 1, Weekly Update - May 15 were posted on June 1, 2009.

News Update: Japanese MPs apologize for Pingdingshan Massacre of 1932,Nanjing!Nanjing! – Follow-up, Japanese Rep’s statement upsets PRC and Taiwan, Dokto/Takeshima Islets, Weekly Update – May 14, 2009 were posted on May 14, 2009.

News Update: Prime Minister Aso Visited China, North Korea Declares Withdrawal from Six-Party Talks, News Update - May 4 were posted on May 5, 2009.

A post on the Japanese Prime Minister's Offering to the Yasukuni Shrine was added on April 23, 2009.

Posts on the Japanese Ministry's Passage of the New History Textbook, and Chinese Nationalism and Sino-Japanese Relations have been added on April 17, 2009.

English Translations of Japanese Middle School History Textbooks (JE Kaleidoscope) link added under 'Issues'.

The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University, the Harry & Helen Gray Culture and Politics Program and the AICGS Society, Culture, and Politics Program will be hosting a workshop entitled, "Reconciliation or Resentment? Honoring the Past or Minimizing it in the Foreign Policies of Germany and Japan."  The workshop will be held on Friday, May 1, 2009 from 9am to 3pm at the Johns Hopkins University - SAIS, Bernstein-Offit Building, Room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.