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25 Sep 2025 | News

Asia in Focus Issue no. 11 is out now!

The latest issue of Asia in Focus - issue no. 11 has just been published. This issue features three thought-provoking articles on anti-cult measures, student protests, and shadow e...
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28 Aug 2025 | News

New publication: Seeing the glass half full amid Japan’s vacant housing crisis 

Julia Olsson has published an article in East Asia Forum on how Japan has been tackling its vacant housing problem through policy reforms and awareness campaigns, offering lessons ...
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12 Jun 2025 | News

South Korea is finally reckoning with its decades-long foreign adoption scandal

Youngeun Koo writes for The Conversation on Korean-Swedish international adoption history.
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4 Jun 2025 | News

Tabita Rosendal has received her doctorate degree

On Tuesday, 3 June, Tabita Rosendal successfully defended her dissertation "Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka."
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12 May 2025 | News

NEW RESEARCH The Filmmaker as Feminist by Jinyan Zeng

On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article investigates the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by women in Chin...
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