Author Archives: Gavan McCormack

Gavan McCormack

About Gavan McCormack

Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor of Australian National University, editor of the Asia-Pacific journal Japan Focus and author of many works on modern Japan and East Asia, which are commonly translated and published also in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

Australia-Japan and the Morrison/Suga Agenda. Do we share the values of Yoshihide Suga?

By Gavan McCormack | On 23 November 2020

Most members of the Suga (and Abe) governments of 2012-2020 belong to rightist, cult type historical revisionist organizations committed to restoring the emperor’s role to its pre-war centrality.

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Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances

By Gavan McCormack | On 8 November 2020

The frame of relationships that exist in East Asia today was  set around 70-years ago. It needs review.

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Japan’s New Leader, Suga Yoshihide, Will Maintain the Old Regime (Jacobin Sep 27, 2020)

By Gavan McCormack | On 18 October 2020

Suga Yoshihide, longtime aide to Abe Shinzo, has now replaced him as Japan’s prime minister. Suga will preserve the main features of Abe’s long stint in power: creeping militarism, subordination to the US, and a high-handed approach to political opposition.

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