short, substantive articles 2014

Both JapanFocus.org (the home of the weekly digest, Asia-Pacific Journal) and Asia-Pacific Memo
provide short articles with solid scholarship. Here are a few examples to lead curious readers to the searchbox for archived articles:

1. This week at A-P Journal includes, http://japanfocus.org/events/view/233
 Extremists Flourish in Abe's Japan (Nov. 20, 2014 by Jeff Kingston) The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 44, No. 2

2. List of selected articles from recent years (66 tagged Japan, 32 tagged Korea, for example)

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/whither-area-studies

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/canada-china-fipa

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/downton-abbeystan-why-central-asia-is-like-twentieth-century-upper-class-england

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/china-and-the-sco-influence-and-soft-power

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/supplementary-education

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/unsettled-remains-tensions-over-unrepatriated-bodies-from-the-asia-pacific-war

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/hikikomori-entering-middle-age

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/drivers-education-in-japan-personality-tests-and-road-rage

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/japans-culture-industries-cool-or-cruel

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/japan-failure-to-enfranchise-its-permanent-resident-foreigners

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/immigrants-in-korea-and-japan

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/japanese-education-policy

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/myanmars-enduring-dilemma

http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/the-politics-of-mining-in-mongolia-and-burmamyanmar