They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers multiple pathways for students to develop their knowledge of the vibrant cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. While developing linguistic and ...

Eighty years after the guns fell silent in the Pacific theater of World War II, the region it reshaped continues to remember – and forget – in strikingly different ways. In China, the memory has never ...

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...