Gavan McCormack

Present Appointments:

Emeritus Professor, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Phone: 61-2-6125-3164; fax: 61-2-6125-5525;
email: gavan.mccormack@anu.edu.au

Distinctions:

• Elected Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 1992.
• Awarded the Centenary Medal "for service to Austalian Society and the Humanities in Asian Studies and History" in 2003.
• Appointed Emeritus Professor, ANU, March 2006

Main Research Interests:

• Modern Japanese (and East Asian) political, intellectual, and environmental history
• War, history, memory, identity, nationalism and neo-nationalism in Japan
• The river and water environment in East Asia, including China and Korea as well as Japan
• Development and environment problems in Okinawa and the Ogasawara islands

Academic Qualifications:

Melbourne University
1955-59 BA, LL.B. (5-year combined course), conferred 1960.
1960-62 MA (History), first class honours, by thesis 'Victorian Governors and Responsible Government, 1854-1892'.

Osaka Foreign Language University
1962-63 Diploma in Japanese Language and Culture.

School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
1963-66 BA (upper division, 2nd class hons) in Chinese.
1967-68 MA (with distinction) in Area Studies (Far East), by examination.
1969-74 PhD in History. Chang Tso-lin, the Mukden Military Clique, and Japan, 1920-1928: The Development and interrelationships of Chinese warlordism and Japanese imperialism in northeast China, University of London, August 1974, 331 pp.

A. Books and Monographs

Japanese Imperialism Today

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Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China

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Korea North and South

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Twice Victims

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Cold War Hot War

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Democracy in Contemporary Japan

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The Japanese Trajectory

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Bonsai Australia Banzai

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The Burma-Thailand Railway

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Korea Since 1850

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The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

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Multicultural Japan

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Tabunkashugi tagengoshugi no genzai

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Japan's Contested Constitution

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Target North Korea

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The Ogasawara Islands – Asia-Pacific perspectives on the culture of the environment

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1. Japanese Imperialism Today: Co-prosperity in Greater East Asia (co-authored with Jon Halliday), London and New York, Penguin and Monthly Review Press, 1974, 279 pp.
   • Complete text translated and published in Japanese (Jitsugyo no Nihon), French (Seuil), Italian (Einaudi), Spanish (Siglo Veintiuno), Dutch (Van Gennep), Arabic (Dar Ibn Khaldun, Beirut), Turkish (Asama Yayinlari, Ankara), Thai (Textbook Project of Social Science Association of Thailand, Bangkok), Korean (Seoul, Han Madang, 1984, translated Baek Kye-Moon)), and partial transations in Swedish, Malay and Chinese.
   
   
2. Crisis in Korea, co-edited with John Gittings, Nottingham, the Russell Press, Spokesman University Paperback No.17, 1977; 190 pp.
   
   
3. Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China, 1911-1928: China, Japan and the Manchurian Idea, Stanford University Press, 1977, 334 pp. (Sole authorship). Also published in UK by Dawson, and in Taiwan (pirate edition) by Rainbow Bridge Book Company, Taipei, 1977.
   • Complete translation in Chinese, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Jilin Province branch, in conjunction with the Department of History, Jilin Normal University, 1988, (translator: Bi Wanwen), under the title Zhang Zuolin zai dongbei.
   
   
4. Korea North and South, co-edited with Mark Selden, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1978, 240 pp.
   • Complete translation in Japanese, (Tokyo: Sanichi Shobo, 1981) as Chōsen wa dō natteiruka, translators: Ito Kazuhiko, Kato Haruyasu and Matsuzawa Tessei, 1981.
   • Complete translation in Korean, (Seoul: Ilwon, 1988) as Nambukhan ni Pikyo Yongu, translators: Chang Ul-byong et al.
   
   
5. Twice Victims: Koreans at Hiroshima, edited and introduced, jointly translated from Japanese with Kang Ok Su, Tokyo, The Korean Peace Comittee in Japan, 1981, 44 pp.
   
   
6. Cold War Hot War: An Australian Perspective on the Korean War, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, 1983; 191 pp [ISBN 0 86086 082 8, 0 86806 6 (pbk)].
   • Complete translation in Japanese as Shinryaku no butai-ura - Chōsen sensō no shinjitsu (Behind the Scenes of Aggression: the Truth of the Korean War), translated by Chung Kyung-mo and Kanai Kazuko, Tokyo, Shiarehimusha and Kage shobo, 1990, (with special introduction to Japanese edition.)
   
   
7. The Price of Affluence: Dilemmas of Contemporary Japan, translator-in-chief and editor of Rokuro Hidaka's Sengo Shiso o Kangaeru (Tokyo), Iwanami, 1980). Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International, 1984 (Australian edition with added translator's Foreword and Afterword, Penguin Australia, May 1985). On 23 June 1986 this book was awarded the 'Kokusai shuppan bunkasho' (International Publications Culture Prize) as an outstanding work in a foreign language about Japan.
   
   
8. Japanese Society: Ins and Outs in Showa 60 translated and edited by Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto, Papers of the Japanese Studies Centre, Melbourne, No. 8, December 1986, 30 pp.
   
   

9. Democracy in Contemporary Japan, co-edited with Yoshio Sugimoto, Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, and New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1986, 272 pp [ISBN 0-87332-397-1, 0-87332-398-X (pbk)].

10. The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, co-edited with Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge University Press, 1988, 300 pp [ISBN 0 52134515 4]
    
    
11. Bonsai Australia Banzai: Multifunctionpolis and the Making of a Special Relationship with Japan, Gavan McCormack, ed., Pluto Press, Sydney, 1991, 228pp.
    • Complete translation in Japanese, slightly revised and expanded, as Kyōsei jidai no Nihon to Osutoraria: Nihon kaihatsushugi to Osutoraria takinōtoshi (Japan and Australia in an Age of Symbiosis: Japanese developmentalism and the Austalian MFP), co-edited with Sasaki Masayuki and Aoki Hidekazu, Tokyo, Akashi shoten, 1993, 263pp.
    
    
12. The Burma-Thailand Railway: memory and history, (co-edited with Hank Nelson), ed, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1993, 175pp; reissued by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in edition for sale in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia, 1993 (ISBN 974-7-47-21-7).
    • Complete translation in revised, expanded Japanese edition as TaiMen tetsudō to Nihon no sensō sekinin - horyō to rōmusha to Chōsenjin to, (The Burma-Thailand Railway: Prisoners, forced labourers and Koreans), co-edited with Hank Nelson and Utsumi Aiko, Tokyo, Akashi shoten, 1994, 360 pp.
    
    

13. Korea Since 1850, (co-authored with Stewart Lone), Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, and New York, St Martin's Press, 1993, 226 pp.

    
    

14. Peace and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Japanese Proposal, translated, edited and introduced, Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, Working Paper No 158, September 1995, 59pp.

15. The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 311pp. 1996. (Co-published with Allen and Unwin, Sydney).
    • (i) - Kūkyo na rakuen - sengo Nihon no saikentō, (revised Japanese translation by Matsui Hiromichi et al of The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, with added 'Introduction to the Japanese edition'), Tokyo, Misuzu shobo, 1998. (416pp. plus 16pp. + 14pp.) ISBN: 622-03660-6
      (ii) - Kūkyo na rakuen sengo Nihon no saikentō, Second printing, revised, Tokyo, Misuzu shobo, July 1999, 416 + 16 + 14 pp.
    • Ilbon - Houl-ppunin P'ung-yo, (revised Korean translation by Han Kyung-koo and others of The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, with added 'Introduction to the Korean edition'). Seoul, Changbi Publishers, 1998, 390 pp. ISBN: 89-364-8502-4
    • Xuhuan de leyuan jhanhou Riben zonghe yanjiu, (Revised Chinese translation by Guo Nanyan of The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, with added 'Introduction to the Chinese Edition'). Shanghai, People's Publishing Company, July 1999, 382 pp. ISBN: 7-208-03201-7/F.637
    • The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, Second, Revised and Expanded Edition (with new Foreword by Norma Field and Introduction by the author), Armonk, New York, and London: M. E. Sharpe, 311 pp., 2001 [ISBN 0-7656-0767-0 (cloth) and 0 7656 0768-9 9 (pb)].
      
      
    
    
16. Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. (co-edited with Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, and Tessa Morris-Suzuki). 296 pp.
    
    

    • Multicultural Japan - Palaeolithic to Postmodern, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (co-edited with Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki), 302 pp. First paperback edition, 2001. [ISBN 0 521 00362 ]

17. Tabunkashugi tagengoshugi no genzai - Kanada, Osutoraria, soshite Nihon(Multiculturalism and Multilingualism Today: Canada, Australia, and Japan), co-edited with Nishikawa Nagao and Watanabe Kōzō, Kyoto, Jinbun shoin, 1997. (305pp. ISBN:4-409-23026-3 c3036)

18. (with Glenn Hook), Japan's Contested Constitution - documents and analysis, London and New York, Routledge, 2001, 212 pages. [ISBN 0-415-24099-9 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-24100-6 (pbk)]

    
    

19. Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe, New York, Nation Books, and Sydney, Random House Australia, 2004. 228 pp. [ISBN: 1-56025-557-9]

20. Japanese translation of Target North Korea, with added author's introduction. Kita Chosen o do kangaeru no ka – Reisen no torauma o koete, translated by Yoshinaga Fusako, Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2004, 247 pp.[ISBN 4-582-45230-2]

21. Ogasawara shoto – Ajia Taiheiyo kara mita kankyo bunka (The Ogasawara Islands – Asia-Pacific perspectives on the culture of the environment), co-edited with Guo Nanyan, Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2005, 278 pages. [ISBN 4-582-54207-7]

22. Beomjoegukga:Bukhan Geurigo Miguk, Korean translation of Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the brink of nuclear catastrophe, translated by Park Sung-jun, with added author introduction and one additional chapter. Seoul: Icarus Media, 2006, 334 pp, ISBN. 89-956395-3-9.

23. Client State: Japan in America's Embrace, London and New York, Verso, 2007, 240 pp. [ISBN-13:978-1-84467-127-4 (hardback); ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-133-5 (paperback).

B. Book Chapters/Journal Articles

1. 'Some Radical Utopian Movements in Early Europe and China' in Afrasian, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, 1969, pp.16-22.
2. 'The Student Left in Japan' in New Left Review, No. 65, January-February 1971, pp.37-53. Reproduced in part in Jon Livingston, Felicia Oldfather & Joe Moore (eds.), The Japan Reader, 2 vols., New York, Pantheon, 1973, Vol.2, pp. 552-56.
3. 'The Tokyo-Taipei-Seoul Nexus' (with Jon Halliday) in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.2, No.1, Spring 1972, pp.36-55.
4. 'Japan and America' (with Jon Halliday) in New Left Review, No.77, January-February 1973, pp.59-76. Spanish translation in Sociedad Y. Politica, Lima, Peru, Vol.1, No.4, September 1973, pp.19-27; Danish translation in Zenit, Copenhagen, No.33, 1973, pp.54-60.
5. 'The Politics of Korean Studies in Europe' in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.7, No.3, 1977, pp.387-392.
6. 'The South Korean Phenomenon' in Australian Outlook, published by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Vol.32, No.3, December 1978, pp.262-278.
7. 'The Kampuchean Revolution, 1975-1978, The Problem of Knowing the Truth' in Arena (Melbourne), No.53, September 1979, pp.40-82.
   • Revised and expanded version in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.10, 1-2, 1980, pp.75-118.
   • Japanese translation as 'Kanbojia kakumei (1975-1978) - shinso no kyūmei' (The Kampuchean Revolution, 1975-1978: Search for the Truth). In Kanbojia kenkyūkai (Kampuchean Research Society) ed., Kanbojia ha do naru? (What is going on in Kampuchea?), Tokyo, San-ichi shobo, 1982, pp.195-272.
8. 'Kampuchea: Nationalism, Intervention, Revolution', Working Paper No.11, Antropologisch-Sociologisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1982; same article also in Heiwa Kenkyū (Peace Research), Soka University, Tokyo, 1981, No.3, pp.124-38.
9. 'Cambodia: Rationale for a Rural Policy' (review article) in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.11, No.2, 1981, pp.231-236.
10. 'Japan and ASEAN: A "New Deal" for East Asia' in K. McLeod and E. Utrecht (eds.), The ASEAN Papers, James Cook University of North Queensland, South East Asian Monograph Series, 3, 1980, pp.240-47.
11. 'Korea North and South' in Arena (Melbourne), 56, pp.34-40, November 1980.
12. 'Letter from Pyongyang' in Far Eastern Economic Review, 15 August 1980.
13. '1930's Japan: Fascist?' in Social Analysis (Adelaide), No.5/6 December 1980, pp.125-43, also in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 14, 2, April-June 1982, pp.20-33.
14. 'North Korea: Kimilsungism - Path to Socialism?' in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13, 4, October-December 1981, pp.50-61.
    • Japanese translation in Gendai no Me (Tokyo), July 1981, pp.132-49.
15. 'Fuashizumu to Nihon shakai' (Fascism and Japanese Society) in Y. Sugimoto & R. Mouer (eds.), Nihonjinron ni kansuru 12 sho (12 Articles on the Nihonjinron debate), Tokyo, Gakuyō shobō, 1982, pp.129-54.
16. 'The Reunification of Korea: Problems and Prospects' in Pacific Affairs (Vancouver: University of British Columbia), 55, 1, pp.5-31, Spring 1982.
17. 'Rokuro Hidaka' in Arena (Melbourne), No.61, pp.14-18, 1982.
18. 'Yellow Rain' (review article discussing Grant Evans' The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons being used in Southeast Asia? in Arena, No.66, 1984, pp.196-205.
19. 'Tanaka Kakuei: Public Works, Private Gain' in The Age Monthly Review, Vol.3, No.11, March 1984, pp.13-14.
20. 'The Hidaka Colloquium: Postwar Japanese Democracy' in Japanese Studies Association of Australia Newsletter, Vol.4, No.1, March 1984, pp.18-21.
21. 'Japan' in Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, ed., Non-Alignment: Australia and the Asia/Pacific Rim, Melbourne, CICD, September 1984.
22. 'Treason, Citizenship and Reputation: The Strange Case of Wilfred Burchett' in Australian Society, Vol.3, No.8, August 1984, pp.6-12. Subsequent articles in the controversy occasioned by this article in Australian Society, Vol.4, No.5, May 1985, p.26 and Vol.4, No.9, September 1985, pp.17-20; also in Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1985, and The Australian, 2-3 November 1985.
23. 'Crime, Confession and Control in Contemporary Japan' (with Futaba Igarashi) in Law in Context (Department of Legal Studies, La Trobe University), Vol.2, October 1984, pp.1-30 (also in McCormack and Sugimoto, eds., Democracy in Contemporary Japan, 1986, pp.186-214.
24. 'Beyond Economism: Japan in a State of Transition' in Amsterdam Asia Studies (University of Amsterdam, Department of East and Southeast Asian Studies), No.54, 1985, pp.1-42, also in McCormack and Sugimoto (eds.), Democracy in Contemporary Japan, 1986, pp.39-46.
25. 'Demokurashi-fashizumu: "Hidaka mondai" o megutte' (Democracy-Fascism: Concerning the "Hidaka Problem") in Sekai, Tokyo, February 1985, pp.254-57.
26. 'Towards a Sixth Republic' in Inside Asia (London), No.5, September-October 1985, pp.254-57.
27. 'Japanese Studies in China' in Japanese Studies Association of Australia Newsletter, Vol.5, No.4, December 1985, pp.1-5.
28. 'Wilfred Burchett's Thirty Year War: Korea' in B. Kiernan (ed.), The Other Side of the World: The Reporting of Wilfred Burchett 1939-1983, London, Quartet Books, and Sydney, Australasian Publishing Company, 1986, pp.162-211.
29. 'The New Right and Human Rights: Cultural Freedom and the Burchett Affair' in Meanjin (University of Melbourne), 1986, No.3, September 1986, pp.389-403.
30. 'The Korean War' in Defence Force Journal (Canberra, Department of Defence), July-August 1986, pp.4-9.
31. 'Area Notes - Northeast Asia' in ASAA Review, 10:2, November 1986, pp.87-93.
32. 'Chōsen to reisen - sekaishi-teki hatten no shikaku kara' ('Korea and the Cold War - from a World Historical Perspective') in Ajia taiheyō mondai Kenkyūjō (Asia Pacific Problems Research Institute), Chōsen tōitsu to Ajia no Heiwa (Reunification of Korea and Peace in Asia), Tokyo, Sanseido, 1987, pp.144-53.
33. 'Anzusu to Anpo - kaku domei no naka no futatsu no juzoku kankei' (ANZUS and Anpo - Dependent Allies in Nuclear Alliances) in Sekai, No.502, June 1987, pp.31-38.
34. 'Minami kara mita "Shin Taiheiyō-Jidai"' ('A Southern Perspective on the "New Pacific Age"'), Osaka University of Economics, Osaka Keidai gakkai tsūshin, No.7, 25 June 1987, pp.1-6.
35. 'Random Notes on Japanese Studies' in JSAA Newsletter, Vol.7, No.2, June 1987, pp.15-19.
36. 'Presidential Report' in JSAA Newsletter, Vol.7, No. 3, pp.5-9.
37. 'Dai Kan Minkoku no kokka to shite no seitōsei ni tsuite - go ju tandaku senkyō (1948) kara daisankai Kokuren sokai (12.1948) ni itaru made' (On the legitimacy of the state of the Republic of Korea - from the separate elections of 10 May 1948 till the 3rd General Assembly of the United Nations, December 1948) in Shiarehimu, No.9, October 1987, pp.93-106.
38. 'Neo-nashonariumu no hatō o miagete' (Looking up at the crest of the neo-nationalist wave), discussion with John Dower and Yoshio Sugimoto in Chūō kōron, January 1988, pp.216-32.
39. 'Modernization and Beyond' (with Yoshio Sugimoto) in McCormack and Sugimoto, The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp.1-14.
40. 'Japan's Superpower Dilemmas' in Understanding Japan, University of Adelaide, Centre for Asian Studies, 1988, pp.2-13.
41. 'Japanese Studies - the Tsunami of '88', ASAA Review, 12:1, July 1988, pp.39-48.
42. 'Minami kara mita "shin Taiheiyō jidai"', ('A Southern Perspective on the "New Pacific Age"') Tōa Keizai Kenkyū (East Asian Economic Studies), Yamaguchi University, Vol. 51, Nos.1-2, October 1988, pp.61-72.
43. 'Japan's Plans for a "Perfect City"', Australian Society, November 1988, pp.21-22.
44. 'Mountains Collapse: the Death of Hirohito', (joint statement with Japan scholars in USA, Canada, UK, etc. on death of Japanese Emperor, issued over my name), Japanese Studies Association of Australia Newsletter, 9:1, March 1989, pp.16-20.
    • Japanese translation in Sekai Seiji, No.783, February 1989, pp. 4-7 and in Misuzu, No.338, April 1989, pp.34-38.
45. 'Japanese Studies at the University of Adelaide', in Australia-Japan Research Centre, ANU, Japanese Studies in Australia, Sydney, Japan Foundation, 1989, pp. 25-30.
46. 'And Shall Jerusalem Yet Be Built? Japan's Multifunctionpolis Project and Australia', ASAA Review, 12:3, April 1989, pp.1-6.
47. 'Crisis: What Crisis?', Marxism Today, May 1989, p.5.
48. 'Japan and the New Millenialism', Kyoto Journal, No.10, Spring 1989, pp.24-25.
49. 'Pacific Dreamtime and Japan's New Millenialism', (revised, expanded and footnoted text of inaugural lecture to University of Adelaide, dated 30 September 1988), Australian Outlook, Vol.43, No.2, August 1989, pp. 64-73. Also abridged version of same text in Whole Earth Review, Winter 1990, pp. 26-28.
50. 'The Teaching of Asian Languages', ASAA Review, 13:2, November 1989, pp.25-31.
51. 'Multifunctionpolis: a change of tack', Australian Society, May 1990, pp.8-9.
52. 'Changing Balances: Japan and Australia', in Michael Dugan, ed., Shadowplay, Department of Education and the Arts, Tasmania, 1990, pp.41-55.
53. 'Chōsen sensō wa reisen o hikidasu "naisen" datta' ('The Korean War was a "Civil War" which was an extension of the Cold War'), discussion with Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago, and Inoguchi Takashi, Tokyo University, Asahi Janaru, 10 August 1990, pp.28-32.
54. 'History becomes the Battleground', Australian Society, August 1990, pp.31-33.
55. 'Metamorphosis of the MFP', Australian Society, September 1990, pp.20-21.
56. 'Capitalism Triumphant?', The Evidence from "Number One" (Japan)', Kyoto Journal, Spring 1990, No.14, pp.4-10, and in Monthly Review, (New York), Vol.42, No.1, May 1990, pp.1-13.
57. 'And Shall the Multifunction Polis yet be built?', in Paul James, ed., Technocratic Dreaming - of Very Fast Trains and Japanese Designer Cities, Sydney, Left Book Club, 1990, pp.129-37.
58. 'Chōsen sensō to gendai sekai' (The Korean War and the contemporary world), discussion with Wada Haruki (University of Tokyo) Chung Kyung-Mo (Shiarehimu Institute), and Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago), Sekai, December 1990, pp.160-83.
59. 'The Price of Affluence: The Political Economy of Japanese Leisure', New Left Review, 1991, No.188, July-August, pp.121-35.
60. 'Hirohito's Soliloquy' (review article on 'Shōwa tennō no dokuhaku hachi jikan' [The 8 hour soliloquy of Emperor Showa] in Bungei Shunjū, December 1990, for Misuzu, March 1991.
61. '"Tokubetsu na Kankei" no seiritsu?' ('Post Cold War and the Australia-Japan Relationship'), Sekai, No.553, (Special Expanded edition), April 1991, pp.159-63.
62. 'Austral-Asia: A Regional Future?', University of Western Australia, Centre for Asian Studies, Occasional Papers, No. 2, Perth, 1991.
63. 'Manchukuo: Constructing the Past', East Asian History, Number 2, December 1991, pp. 105-124.
64. "Japan's Aid Policy: A New Internationalism," in David Wright-Neville, ed., The Evolution of Foreign Aid, Monash University Development Studies Centre, 1991, pp. 98-122.
65. '21 seiki no chihō jichi o hiraku' ('Prospects for regional autonomy in 21st century'), Zadankai discussion with Miyamoto Kenichi, No Un-hi, Shibata Tokue and Sasaki Masayuki, Jūmin to jichi, Vol. 346, February 1992, pp.4-15.
66. 'Osutoraria no saiban kiroku ni yoru Chōsenjin BC-kyū senpan no shi' ('The deaths of Korean B and C class war criminals - according to Australian court records'), Sekai, No.565, March 1992, pp.126-38.
    • Korean translation in Shin Dong-A, April 1992, pp.528-40.
67. 'Nichi-Go no omawaku-chigai de hyōryū suru MFP keikaku' ('Multifunctionpolis plan drifting amid differing Japanese and Australian conceptions), (co-authored with Sasaki Masayuki), Ekonomisuto, 7 April 1992, pp.44-48.
68. 'Mō hitotsu no nan-boku kankei - Osutoraria kara mita Nihon' ('A different North-South Relationship - Japan seen from Australia), Kokumin bunka, No. 390, May 1992, pp.2-9.
69. 'Introduction' and 'Conclusion' (both with Hank Nelson) to McCormack and Nelson, eds, The Burma-Thailand Railway, Sydney 1993, pp. 1-9, 151-159; also 'Apportioning the Blame: Australian Trials for railway Crimes', in ibid, pp. 85-119. (This book was launched at ANU by Prime Minister Paul Keating on 23 April 1993.)
70. 'How Japan faked its own history', 21C, published by Australian Commission for the Future, Winter-Spring 1993, pp. 48-57.
71. 'Kim Country: Hard Times in North Korea', New Left Review, no 198, March-April 1993, pp. 21-48.
    • 'Chap'e Sahoe Puk'an ui Amnal Un,' Chayu Kongnon, July 1995, pp. 220-236. Korean translation of 'Kim Country: Hard Times in North Korea', New Left Review, no 198, March-April 1993, pp. 21-48.
72. 'Kita Chōsen wa do kaisuru ka' (What goes on in North Korea), Sekai, no 587, October 1993, pp. 278-286.
73. 'Kyōsei jidai no Nihon to Osutoraria' (Japan and Australia in a symbiotic age), Entoropii, no 28, November 1993, pp. 19-21
74. 'Japaneseness', Japanese Studies, Bulletin of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, vol. 13, no 2, December 1993, pp. 109-110.
75. 'Kokusaika, Nichibunken, and the Question of Japan-Bashing', Asian Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Review, vol 17, no 3, April 1994, pp. 166-172.
76. 'The other constitutional debate', ABC Radio, 24 Hours, May 1994, pp. 66-71.
77. 'Asian Language Policy and Practice in Australia', in Tim Beal, ed, Educating for Asia: Discussion and Recommendations, Victoria University of Wellington, Centre for Asia/Pacific Law and Business, 1994, pp. 33-38.
78. 'Japan's Construction Industry: Paving over the Kansai', Japan Policy Research Institute (Santa Monica), Occasional Paper, No 1, 1994,
79. '"Stirrup. Sail and Plough" Conference Controversy', Asian Studies Review, vol 18, no 2, December 1994, pp. 134-8.
80. 'Nijūichi seiki no shakai keizai shisutemu' (A 21st century social and economic system), in Miyamoto Ken'ichi, ed, Chikyū seisaku to Nihon no kadai, Iwanami bukkuretto, no 368, March 1995, pp. 37-45.
81. 'Growth, Construction, and the Environment: Japan's Construction State', Japanese Studies, vol. 15, no 1, May 1995, pp. 26-35.
82. 'Groping for "Asia": Japan and the Dilemmas of National Identity', New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 3, no 1, 1995, pp. 41-65.
83. 'Remembering and Forgetting: The War, 1945-1995,' Journal of the Australian War Memorial, No 27, October 1995, pp. 5-14.
84. 'Introduction', and 'Kokusaika: Impediments in Japan's Deep Structure' (chapter 16) in Denoon, Hudson, McCormack and Morris-Suzuki, eds, Multicultural Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 1-16, and 265-286.
    • 'Kokusaika o megutte: kōzō shinbu ni hisomu shoheki teppai o', (Kokusaika: Problems in Japan's Deep Structure), Kokusai kyōroku ronshū, Vol 2, No 1, June 1994, pp. 71-90.
    • 'Ilbonsahoe-ui simch'ung kujo-wa kukjehwa', Changjak-kwa Pipyong (Seoul), vol 22, no 2, 1994, pp. 122-149 (Korean translation of 'Kokusaika: Problems in Japan's Deep Structure', with added introduction to the Korean reader).
85. 'The Price of Affluence', in Tim Megarry, ed, The Making of Modern Japan: A Reader, Dartford, Kent: Greenwich University Press, 1995, pp. 517-30.
86. 'L'inconscience fiscale d'un état constructeur: et si le Japan faisait faillite?', Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), August 1996, p. 8. (Also in various languages in Il Manifesto (Rome), Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), Wochen Zeitung (Zurich), L. Press (Madrid), Le Meridien (Tunis), Maniere de voir (Athens).
87. 'Damu - mizu no atarashii seiji-keizaigaku teki mondai' (Political and economic problems surrounding dams and water), Ritsumeikan kokusai kenkyū, vol 9, no 2, October 1996, pp. 124-128 .
88. 'Food, Water, Power, People: Dams and Affluence in Late 20th Century East and Southeast Asia', Kyoto Journal, No 34, April 1997, pp. 6-28.
89. 'Foreword', to Sonia Ryang, North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity, Boulder, Co: Westview, 1997, pp. xiii to xv.
90. 'Is Japan Facing Financial Armageddon?', in New Asia Pacific Review, vol. 3, No. 2, 1997, pp. 10-15.
91. 'Osutoraria no tabunkashugi to Ajia' (Australian multiculturalism and Asia), Ritsumeikan gengo bunka kenkyū, vol. 8, no. 4, February 1997, pp. 57-70.
92. 'Tan-itsu bunka no shinwa o koete - Osutoraria to Nihon, Ajia e no chōsen' (Beyond Monoculturalism: Australia's Grappling with Japan and Asia), in McCormack, Nishikawa and Watanabe eds, Tabunkashugi tagengoshugi no genzai - Kanada, Osutoraria, soshite Nihon, Kyoto, Jinbun shoin, 1997, pp. 42-54.
93. 'Ilbon "Chayu-ui sagwan"-ui chongche' ('The Real Meaning of "The Liberal View of History"'), [in Korean], Changjak hwa Pipyong (Creation and Criticism), No 98, December 1997, pp. 75-94 (translated by Sin Kyong-suk). [ISSN 1227-0938]
94. 'The Emptiness of Affluence: Vitality, Embolism and Symbiosis in the Japanese Body Politic', in Armand Clesse, E.B.Keehn, Inoguchi Takashi and J.A.A. Stockwin, eds, The Vitality of Japan: Sources of National Strength and Weakness, London, MacMillan Press [ISBN 0-333-64820-X], and New York, St. Martin's Press [ISBN: 0-312-17313-X], 1997, pp. 112-130.
95. 'From "Number One" to Number Nothing: Japan at Century's End', Lecture broadcast in full on ABC Radio National, 20 December 1997 (repeated on 23 and 24 December).
96. 'Arukimedesu to Kitōson' (Archimedes and Kitoh Village), Shūkan kinyòbi, 16 January 1998, pp. 16-23.
97. 'Bubble and Swamp: MFP and the Australia-Japan Encounter, 1987-1994', in Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty, eds, Australia in Asia: Episodes, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, [ISBN: 0-19-553673-8]. [9 chapters, 236 pp] pp. 37-60.
98. 'Village vs State in Japan', The Ecologist, vol. 27, no 6, November- December 1997, pp. 225-228. [London. ISSN 0261-3131]
99. 'Dams and Water in East and Southeast Asia', The Asia-Pacific Magazine, No 9/10, 1998, pp. 49-53. [Canberra. ISSN 1329-6663]
100. 'From Number One to Number Nothing: Japan's Fin de Siecle Blues', Japanese Studies, (Journal of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia), Vol. 18, No. 1, May 1998, pp. 31-44. [Melbourne. ISSN 1037-1397]
101. 'The Japanese Movement to Correct History', Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, (Oakland, California), Vol. 30, No 2, Spring 1998, pp. 16-23. [ISSN 0007-4810]
102. 'Japan's Uncomfortable Past', (Cross Current), History Today, May 1998, pp. 5-7. [London. ISSN 0018-2753]
103. 'Nakaumi', Kyoto Journal, No 36, May 1998, pp. 72-78. [Kyoto. ISSN 0913-5200]
104. 'Okinawan Dilemmas: Coral Islands or Concrete Islands?' Working Paper No. 45, Japan Policy Research Institute, (Cardiff, California), April 1998, pp. 1-8.
105. 'Okinawa no jirenma', Okinawa jizokuteki hatten kenkyūkai, ed, Okinawa no jizokuteki naihatsuteki hatten ni kansuru kenkyū, (Final Report of 'Research Group on Okinawan Sustainable Development', to Toyota Foundation), October 1998, pp. 140-165.
106. 'Modernism, Water, and Affluence: The Japanese Way in East Asia', in Walter L.Goldfrank, David Goodman, and Andrew Szasz, eds, Ecology and the World System, Westport, Ct, Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. 147-164. (Series: Studies in the Political Economy of the World System.) [ISSN 0084-9235; 211]
107. 'Kaihatsu no jirenma', Jūmin to jichi, No 431, March 1999, pp. 44-50. [ISSN 1343-6244]
108. 'From the sea that divides to the sea that links: Contradictions of Ecological and Economic Development in Okinawa', Capitalism Nature Socialism (Santa Cruz), Vol. 10, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 3-39. [ISSN 1045 5752]
     • Okinawa kaihatsu no jirenma', Misuzu, No 455, February 1999, pp. 6-33. [ISSN: no ISSN)
109. 'Japan: A Question of Leadership at Home and in the Region', The Asia-Australia Papers, No 1, April 1999, pp. 29-35. [ISSN: 1442-3103]
110. 'Chiiki kara 21 seiki no keizai shisutemu o kangaeru', Tokubetsu taidan, ('Special Discussion' with Professor Miyamoto Ken'ichi, 'Reflections on the 21st century economic system from a regional perspective'), Keizai, July 1999, No 46, 83-107. [ISSN: no ISSN]
111. 'Modernizing Japan's Water: Growth and Sustainability in the Kanto District', Japanese Society, Vol. 3, 1999, pp. 73-96. [ISSN: 1342-8780]
112. 'Dilemmas of Development on the Ogasawara Islands', Japan Policy Research Institute (Cardiff, Ca), Occasional Paper No. 15, August 1999.
113. 'Apologies and Apologias: Political and Moral Dilemmas in the Constitution of Japanese National Memory of the War Fifty Years On', in Peter Dennis, ed, 1945 War and Peace in the Pacific Selected Essays, Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1999, pp. 199-213. [ISBN 0642565481]
114. '1999 nen no chikaku hendō' (1999 The Year of Tectonic Shifts), Sekai, Kinkyù zōkan (special expanded issue), 'Stoppu! Ji-Ji-Kō Bōsō', November 1999, pp. 23-29. [ISSN 0582-4532]
115. 'Bōryokuteki 20 seiki kara no dasshutsu' (Flight from the Violence of the 20th century), Kokumin Bunka (National Congress of Culture, Japan), No 469, November 1999, pp. 4-8.
116. 'Okinawan Dilemmas: Coral Islands or Concrete Islands?', Chalmers Johnson, ed, Okinawa: Cold War Island, Cardiff, Ca: Japan Policy Research Institute, 1999, pp. 261-282.
117. 'Concrete Evidence-Development Dilemmas on the Ogasawara Islands', Tokyo Journal, February 2000, pp. 10-13, 21.
118. 'The Japanese Movement to "Correct" History', in Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds, Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 55-73. [ISBN 0-7656- 0446-9 (hc);0-7656-0447-7 (pbk)], and also in V. Mackie, A. Skoutarides, A. Tokita, eds, Japanese Studies: communities, cultures, critiques, Volume One: Re-mapping Japan, Monash Asia Institute, Clayton, 2000 (ISBN 0 7326 1184 9) vol. 1, pp. 103-118.
119. 'Flight from the Violent 20th Century', Japanese Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2000, pp. 5-14. {ISSN: 1037-1397]
120. 'The Daejon Massacre', http://www.kimsoft.com/1997/nogun2.htm
121. 'Water Margins: Development and Sustainability in China', University of Sydney, Australian Mekong Resource Centre, Working Paper No. 2, June 2000. (ISSN 1441-8347)
122. 'Beginning and Ending the Cold War in East Asia', chapter 6 of Stuart Nagel, ed, Handbook of Global International Policy, New York and Basel, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2000, pp. 103-117. [ISBN: 0-8247-0346-4]
123. Gavan McCormack and Shikita Asami, 'Shizen kankyō no hozen to kaihatsu no jirenma' (Preservation of the natural environment and the dilemmas of modernization'), Miyamoto Ken'ichi and Sasaki Masayuki, eds, Okinawa - 21 seiki e no chōsen (Okinawa's challenge to the 21st Century), Tokyo, Iwanami shoten, 2000, pp. 221-247. [ISBN: 4-00-022366-6]
     
124. 'Nationalism and Identity in Post-Cold War Japan', Pacifica Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, October 2000, pp. 249-265. [ISSN 1323-9104 print; ISSN 1469/9974 online]
125. (co-authored with Julia Yonetani), 'The Okinawan G-8 Summit from Below', Cardiff, Ca: Japan Policy Research Institute, Working Paper No 71, September 2000. (http://www.jpri.org)
126. 'Water Margins: Competing Paradigms in China', Critical Asian Studies, 33:1, (2001), pp. 5-30. [ISSN 1467-2715 print / 1472-6033 online]
     • Slightly abridged Japanese translation as, 'Chūgoku mizu shigen kaihatsu no dōkō to sono kankyō eikyō', Kankyō to kōgai, Tokyo, Iwanami, February 2001, pp. 9-17. [ISSN 0918-7537]
127. 'Japan's Houdini' (review of Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, New York, Harper-Collins, 2000), New Left Review, No. 7, Jan-Feb 2001, pp. 138-144.
128. 'Competing Capitalisms', Review of Mark Beeson, Competing Capitalisms: Australia, Japan and Economic Competition in Asia-Pacific, (Basingstoke: MacMillan Press, 999), in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2001, pp. 125-129.
129. 'Ogasawara - Dokutoku na shima kara heibon na shima e?', (co-authored with Guo Nanyan), Misuzu, Vol. 43, No. 4, (No. 481), April 2001, pp. 9-22.
130. 'Coming to terms with nature: development dilemmas on the Ogasawara Islands', (with Nanyan Guo), Japan Forum, vol. 13, No. 2, 2001, pp. 177-193. [ISSN: 0955-5803 print/1469-932X online]
131. 'Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of "Genocide"', Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Number 2001-01, July 2001.(31 pp.)
132. '21 seiki Nihon no shakai wa doko e mukaō to suru no ka', Shi-chō-son shinpojiumu jikkō iinkai, ed, Gabamento kara gabanansu e (From Government to Governance), Tokyo, Kōjinsha, 2001, pp. 19-53. [ISBN: 4-906430-78-3]
133. 'Japan's Afghan Expedition', Eureka Street (Jesuit Publications, Melbourne), Volume 11, No. 10, December 2001, pp. 25-31. [ISSN 1036-1758] Also at: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/pdf/111mccormack.pdf.
134. 'Nihon no afugan shuppei', Sekai, December 2001, pp. 111-116. [ISSN 0582-4532]
135. 'Breaking the iron triangle', New Left Review, No. 13, January-February 2002, pp. 5-23. [ISSN 0028-6060] Also at: http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24701.shtml
     • 'Ilbon-ǔi "ch'ŏr-ui samgak kujo"' [The Japanese Iron Triangle], in Ch'angjak-kwa Pip'yong [Creation & Criticism], (Seoul), No.116, (Summer 2002), pp.68-85. [ISSN 1227-0938].
136. 'Things more important than football? Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup', in John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter, eds, Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. 29-42. [ISBN 0-415 27562-8 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-27563-6 (pbk)]
137. 'New Tunes for an Old Song: Nationalism and Identity in Post-Cold War Japan', in Roy Starrs, ed, Nations Under Siege: Globalization and Nationalism in Asia, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 137-167. [ISBN 0-312-29410-7 hardback].
138. "Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of 'Genocide"', in Bob Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds, The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 265-288. [ISBN 0-521-82063-4 hardback; ISBN: 0-521-52756-3 paperback].
139. "Okinawa and the structure of dependence," Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle, eds, Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity, London and New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp. 93-113. [ISBN 0-415-29833-4]
140. "Nihon ni okeru seigi to kempo," in Kokusai Kirisutokyo Daigaku shakai kagaku kenkyujo and Jochi Daigaku shakai seigi kenkyujo, eds, Nihon ni okeru seigi: Kokunaigai ni okeru shomondai, Tokyo, Ochonomizu shobo, 2003, 15-33.
141. "Nashonarizumu o koete – Higashi Ajia no Homurando," in Sasaki Takeshi, Yamawaki Naoshi and Murata Yujiro, eds, Higashi Ajia ni okeru kokyochi no soshutsu – kako, genzai, mirai, Tokyo, Tokyo Daigaku shuppan, 2003, pp. 148-166. [ISBN 4-13-010095-5]
142. "Terror in Japan-The Red Army (1969-2001) and Aum Supreme Truth (1987-2000)," co-authored with Meredith Box, Critical Asian Studies, vol. 36, No 1 (2004), pp. 91-112 [ISSN 1467-2715 print/online /01/000091-22]
143. "Water, Development, and Nature in Korea:Struggling towards Sustainability," Asian Cultural Studies, (Tokyo: International Christian University, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies), No. 30, 2004, pp. 111-126. [ISSN 0454-2150]
144. "Korea: Unfinished Business of the 20th Century," Asian Cultural Studies,(Tokyo: International Christian University, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies), Special Issue, No 13, 2004, pp 83-86.
145. "North Korea in the Vice," New Left Review, November-December 2002, [ISSN 0028-6060], pp. 5-28.
146. "North Korea: Coming in from the Cold?," Z-Net (Asia), posted 14 December 2002. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=2749 and (in slightly revised form): Japan Policy Research Institute, JPRI Working Paper No. 91, Cardiff California, January 2003.
147. "Sunshine, Containment, War: Korean Options," http://www.tomdispatch.com, (weblog of the Nation Institute, New York), posted 23 February 2003, also on Z-net (Asia), posted 23 February 2003, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=3111
148. "Datsu tero kokka e no michi," Sekai, January 2003, (No. 709), [ISSN 0582-4532], pp. 201-206.
149. "Pushed to the brink," The Diplomat, Canberra, Vol. 1, No. 6, February-March 2003, pp. 12-13. [ISSN 1446-697X]
150. "Tero, Aku, Kita Chosen," Ronza (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha), April 2003, pp. 90-97.
151. "Seoul-Centring Korea," Eureka Street (Melbourne: Jesuit Publications), April 2003, pp. 39-44. (http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/index.html) [ISSN 1036-1758].
152. "Boots, Billions, and Blood: Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World," Tom Dispatch, 18 March 2004 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=5165. Korean translation in Changjak kwa pipyong (Creation and Criticism), Seoul, vol. 32, No 2, (Issue No. 124), May 2004, pp. 393-402.[ISSN 1227-0938]. Japanese translation by Kishimoto Kazuyo and Inoue Toshio as "Busshu no tenohira de odoru Koizumi no Nihon," TUP (Translators United for Peace), ed, Sekai wa kaerareru, vol 2, Tokyo, Nanatsumori shokan, 2004, pp. 218-228 [ISBN 4-8229-0489-5 C0036]. German translation as "Stiefel, Milliarden und Blut: Koizumis Japan in Bushs Welt," http://www.zmag.de/artikel.php?id=1080
153. "Making Sense of the Korean Crisis: An Interview," Z Magazine, vol. 17, No. 4, April 2004, http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Apr2004/shalom0404.html (also reproduced in Japan Focus http://japanfocus.org/092.html, and in Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 18: 2, 2003, pp 1-20.)
154. "Remilitarizing Japan," New Left Review, No. 29, September-October 2004, pp. 29-45.
155. "Koizumi's Japan in Bush's World: After 9/11" Nautilus Institute, PFO 04-46A, November er 8th 2004. http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0446A.McCormack.pdf
156. "Minamata: The Irresponsibility of the Japanese State," co-authored with Yoshinaga Fusako, Japan Focus, November 2004. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=171
157. "Tide Change in Saga," Kyoto Journal,No. 59, March 2005, pp. 70-74.[ISSN 0913-5200] also on Japan Focus, No 150, 2004. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=150
158. "Disputed Bones: Japan, North Korea, and the 'Nature' Controversy," Japan Focus, April 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=258
159. "Disputed Bones – Japan-North Korea Clash," Japan Focus, 13 June 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=306 (also posted on Nautilus Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network, Z-Net, Ohmynews, Asia Times, etc).
160. "Ogasawara shoto – Takarajima no seicho to hen-i," (with Guo Nanyan), in McCormack and Guo, eds, Ogasawara shoto, Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2005, pp. 22-52.
161. "Ariake-kai Isahaya-wan," in McCormack and Guo, eds, Ogasawara shoto, Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2005, pp. 135-153.
162. "Community and Identity in Northeast Asia,1930s and Today," Journal of Manchurian Studies, (The Manchurian Studies Association, Dong-A University, Pusan, Korea) 2005, No 2, pp. 47-65. [ISSN 1738-3668] also on Japan Focus,. No 200, 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?=200
163. "A North Korean at the White House," Japan Focus, No 335, uploaded 17 July 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=335, also at History News Network, 23 July 2005 (http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html ), Asia Times (Online), 26 July 2005 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GG26Dg03.html , Ohmynews (Seoul), Ohmynews International Weekly, 22 July 2005, Nautilus Institute Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network, Policy Forum Online, 25 July 2005: http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0561McCormack.html and, guest editorial, Korean Quarterly, St Paul, Minnesota, vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2005, pp. 12-13.
164. "The Umbrella and the Mushroom: Realism and Extremism on North Korea," Japan Focus, 24 August 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=373, also in History News Network, http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html (29 August 2005), and Japanese translation as "Kaku no kasa to kinoko kumo - Kita Chosen to kaku no poritikkusu," Sekai, October 2005, pp. 112-121.
165. "War and Japan's Memory Wars: the media and the globalization of consciousness," Japan Focus, No 206, January 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=206
166. "Looking back at the Occupation: The US and Japan over Sixty Years," Japan Focus, No 220, 14 February 2005 (originally a scripted talk for BBC Radio 4, January 2005), http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=220
167. "Pyongyang Waiting for the Spring," Japan Focus, No. 228, 24 February 2005. (Originally for Tom Dispatch) http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=228
168. (with *Wada Haruki), "The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations," Japan Focus, No 385, 2 September 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=385 also in Korean at http://pressian.com
169. "Koizumi's Coup," New Left Review, No 35, September-October 2005, pp. 1-12.
170. "Koizumi's Kingdom of Illusion," Japan Focus, No. 422, 18 October 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=422 also in Korean at: http://pressian.com
171. "Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance," Japan Focus, No 449, 15 November 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=449
172. Gavan McCormack and Wada Haruki, "Forever stepping back: the strange record of 15 years of negotiation between Japan and North Korea," in John Feffer, ed, The Future of US-Korean Relations: The imbalance of power, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. 81-100. [ISBN 0-415-77037-9 (hbk) and ISBN 0-415-77038-6 (pbk)]
173. "El 'problema norcoreano'," (The North Korea problem), in Spanish, Oriol Farres, ed., Annuario Asia-Pacifico, Barcelona: Casa Asia, Fundacion CIDOB, and Real Instituto Elcano, 2006, pp. 183-191. ISBN 84-932950-5-1 (Casa Asia); 84-87072-67-4 (Fundacion CIDOB), 84-611-2100-7 (Real Instituto Elcano); ISSN 1699-8111 URL: http://www.anuarioasiapacifico.es
174. "Difficult Neighbors — Japan and North Korea," in Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-won Park, and Daqing Yang, eds, Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia, London and New York, Routledge, 2007, pp. 154-172. ISBN10: 0-415-77093-9 (hbk); ISBN10: 0-203-96704-6 (ebk); ISBN13: 978-0-415-77093-4 (hbk); ISBN13: 978-0-203-96704-1 (ebk)
175. "Forever Stepping Back: The Strange Record of 15 Years of Japan-North Korea Negotiations," (with Wada Haruki), John Feffer, ed, The Future of US-Korean Relations: The Imbalance of Power, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. 81-100.I ISBN10: 0-41577037-8; ISBN10: 0-415-77038-6; ISBN13: 978-0-415-77037-8 (hbk); ISBN13: 978-0-415-77038-5 (pbk). Also Korean translation at http://www.pressian.com/
176. "Criminal States: Soprano vs. baritone — North Korea and the United States," Korea Observer, Seoul, The Institute of Korean Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, Autumn 2006, pp. 487-511, also at Japan Focus, posted, 9 August 2006, and (in Korean) as chapter 1 of Beomjoegukga: Bukhan Geurigo Miguk, pp. 15-40.
177. "The Nago mayoral election and Okinawa's search for a way beyond bases and dependence," with Sato Manabu and Urashima Etsuko, Japan Focus, 16 February 2006. http://japanfocus.org/products/details/1592 (including translations from Japanese of the latter texts).
178. "Japan's political and constitutional crossroads," Discussion (Zadankai) with John Junkerman and David McNeill, Japan Focus, posted July 2006. http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2175.
179. "The Okinawan election and resistance to Japan's military first politics," Japan Focus, posted 16 November 2006,
     http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2275
     Also at Z-Net: http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
     Also at History News Network: http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/31944.html
     Also at Selves and Others: http://selvesandothers.org/
     Also at Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/HK17Dh01.html/
     Also at Nautilus (18 November): http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0699McCormack.html
180. "Wiseongwa mosun kadeukhan 'Bukhan kukga beomjoeron'" (Doctrine of North Korean state crime full of hypocrisy and contradiction,") in Korean translation, Sisa Journal, Seoul, 24 January 2006. ISSN 1228-405x.
181. "North Korea and the US strategic decision," Japan Focus, 15 January 2006. http://japanfocus.org/products/details/1925
182. "The North Korea problem, Japan and the US: The Politics of Hypocrisy," in Japan Focus, 8 May 2006. http://japanfocus.org/products/details/1909.
183. "Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan," in William M. Tsutsui, ed, A Companion to Japanese History, Blackwell Companions to World History, Malden, Ma, USA; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Australia: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 443-459.
184. "Japan and North Korea – The Quest for Normalcy," Hazel Smith, ed., Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer, Tokyo, New York and Paris, United Nations University Press, 2007, pp. 162-181. [ISBN 978-92-808-1144-5; ISBN-13: 978-9280811445 (pbk.: alk. paper]
185. "Foreword," to George Burchett and Nick Shimmin, eds, Rebel Journalism: the Writings of Wilfred Burchett, Cambridge, New York, etc: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. XV to XV111.
186. 'A Deal in Beijing," Barbara Nelson and Robin Jeffrey, eds., Capturing the Year: 2007, Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2007, pp. 133-144. [ISBN: 9781740762199 (pbk.)]
187. "Community and Identity in Northeast Asia: 1930s and Today," East Asian History, No. 30, Special Issue, "Manchuria as Borderland", December 2005, (printed February 2007), pp. 107-118.
188. "Member of the Axis of Evil no More," Yale Global Online, 5 March 2007. (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=8865).
189. "Yokohama and Seoul: dealing with crimes of state in Japan and South Korea," Japan Focus, 29 January 2007. (with Kamiya Setsuko and Yonhap News), http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2339 ; also at Policy Forum Online, 07-038A, Nautilus Institute, 15 May 2007 http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/07038McCormack.html
190. "Fitting Okinawa into Japan the Beautiful Country," Japan Focus, 30 May 2007. http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2437; also at Ohmynews (International), 3 June 2007, http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=364774&rel_no=1&back_url= , also at Z-Net, 2 June 2007, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=12978 , also at Asia Times Online, 7 June 2007, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/IF07Dh01.html Also at Asia-Studies Monthly (online), June 2007
191. "Abe and Okinawa: Collision Course?" Japan Focus, 3 September 2007. http://japanfocus.org/products/topdf/2512 ; also at Selves and Others: http://selvesandothers.org/.
192. "A reculons toujours - Histoire peu commune de quinze annees de negociations entre le Japan et al Coree du nord," (with Wada Haruki), Recherches Internationales, No 76, 2- 2006, Avril-Mai-Juin 2006, (Paris: Recherches Internationales) pp. 111-134. [ISSN: 0294-3069; ISBN: 2-907452-29-0]. (In French)
193. "L’impero del Sole tra orgoglio e dipendenza," "Mistero Giappone", Quaderni speciali di LiMes, Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, (Roma: Gruppo Editoriale L’Espesso spa), October 2007, pp. 187-198. (In Italian)

C. Newspaper/Occasional Articles

1. 'Eleven Basic Theses on the Korean Problem' in The People's Korea (Tokyo), 16 May 1987, pp.6-7.
2. 'A Divided Nation Goes For Gold', Sydney Morning Herald, 1 August 1988.
3. 'Utopia-by-the-billabong', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 1988.
4. 'The Japanese: Conflicts and Myths', Discussion, The Sunday Age, 19 August 1990.
5. 'Our Japan scholars need Funds but at what cost?', The Australian, Higher Education Suplement, 23 May 1990, p.19.
6. 'Senso no "kagaisaha" to "higaisha"' ('War's Aggressors and Victims'), Mainichi shinbun, 14 October 1991, (Evening edition).
7. 'Japan: Leisure law a bitter lesson', The Australian, 10 July 1992
8. 'Pacific Drift', The Sunday Age, 27 September 1992.
9. 'Denial of Responsibility', The Weekend Australian, 10-11 June 1995, p. 23.
10. 'Cost for Golfers below par as land speculation fever eases', The Australian, 6 July 1995.
11. 'Japanese War crimes' and 'Nanking', VJ Day Supplement, The Weekend Australian, 12-13 August 1995.
12. 'When will Japan stop devouring its world?', Asahi Evening News, 19 October 1996.
13. 'A few strings attached: Tokyo, Inamine, and the struggle for Okinawan self-determination', The New Observer (Tokyo), December 1998, pp. 1, 4.
14. (with Julia Yonetani), 'Hot Summer could get hotter for G-8 in Nago', Asahi Evening News, 27 February 2000.
15. 'Henoko ha sekai no rekishi wo kaeru teko ni naru', Ryukyu ko, No 1, October 2000, pp. 14-15.
16. '2001 nen natsu - rekishi to do mukiau', Akahata, 24 August 2001.
17. 'Japan's Construction State in Ruins', Australian Financial Review, 12 October 2001, 'Review', pp. 11-12. (http://www.afr.com).
18. 'Little election, Big stakes', Newsweek Web Exclusive, 2 February 2002. [http://www.msnbc.com/news/698049.asp]
19. "The "evil" empire that wants to come in from the cold," The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 2003.
20. "US shares blame for North Korea's bad behaviour," The Age, 8 January 2003.
21. "North Korean nuclear puzzle," Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), vol. 38, No. 2, 11 January 2003, pp. 111-112.
22. "Gulags on both sides of the DMZ," Pyongyang Square, http://www.pyongyangsquare.com/resources/gulags.html/ (posted 6 March 2003).
23. "Rewriting an ugly past," The Age, 15 August 2005; also reproduced as "Japan's Sixtieth," Japan Focus, posted 16 August 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=367
24. "North Korea and the US 'Strategic decision'," Sisa Journal, (in Korean), 24 January 2006, pp. 58-60. [ISSN 1228-405x]
25. "Jujitsu suru Nihon kenkyu," Yomiuri shimbun (Tokyo), 24 March 2006. (Quoted in).
26. "Kokyaku kokka-ron," Ryukyu shimpo (Naha), 17 October 2006 (Interviewed and work discussed).
27. "South Korea needs to keep balance on N.K issue: Professor," Hankyoreh sinmoon (Seoul), 25 November 2006, in English as http://english.hani.co.kr/popups/print.hani?ksn=174158 , 25 November 2006 (Interviewed and ideas discussed).
28. "Japan flexes regional muscle," The Canberra Times, 3 September 2007.

D. Translated (from Japanese)

1. See also above A - 7 and 8.
2. Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography: Japan at the XIIIth International Congress of Historical Sciences at Moscow, ed., the Japan National Committee of Historical Sciences, 2 vols, Tokyo, 1970 (328 and 213 pp). (Partial translation.)
3. Eiichi Shindō, 'Hunger and Weapons: the Entropy of Militarization' in Review of African Political Economy (London), No.33, August 1985, pp.6-22.
4. Irokawa Daikichi, 'Popular Movements in Modern Japanese History' in McCormack and Sugimoto, eds, The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp.69-86.
5. Matsuzawa Tessei, 'Street Labour Markets, Day Labourers and the Structure of Oppression' in McCormack and Sugimoto, eds., The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp.147-64.
6. Igarashi Futaba, 'Forced to Confess: Crime, Confession and Control in Contemporary Japan', Kyoto Journal, No.11, Summer 1989, pp.12-18.
7. Shinobu Ohe, 'Future City Planning: The Japanese Experience and the MFP', and Masayuki Sasaki, 'Japan, Australia and the Multifunctionpolis', both in Gavan McCormack, ed, Bonsai Australia Banzai: Multifunctionpolis and the Making of a Special Relationship with Japan, Sydney, Pluto Press, 1991, pp. 84-102 and 138-151.
8. Aiko Utsumi, Prisoners of war in the Pacific War: Japan's Policy', and 'The Korean Guards on the Burma-Thailand Railway', in McCormack and Nelson, eds, The Burma-Thailand Railway, Sydney 1993, at pp. 68-84, 127-39; and Yi Hak-Nae, 'The Man between: A Korean Guard looks back', in ibid, 120-26.
9. Amino Yoshihiko, 'Deconstructing "Japan"', translation of pp. 6-20 and 59-70 of Nihonron no shiza: rettō no shakai to kokka(Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 1990), East Asian History, no 3, June 1992, pp. 121-142.
10. Amino Yoshihiko, 'Emperor, Rice and Commoners', (translation of paper entitled 'Tenno, Kome, Hyakusho' prepared for Conference on Japanese Identity held at ANU, September 1993), Japanese Studies, 14, 2, September 1994, pp. 1-12.
11. Koseki Shōichi, Maeda Tetsuo, Suzuki Yuji, Takahashi Susumu, Takayanagi Sakio, Tsuboi Yoshiharu, Wada Haruki, Yamaguchi Jirō, and Yamaguchi Sadamu, Peace and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Japanese Proposal, translation of '"Heiwa kihonhō" o tsukurō', Sekai, April 1993, pp. 52-67, and 'Ajia taiheiyō chiiki anpo suru', Sekai, December 1994, pp. 22-40. Peace Research Centre, Working Paper no 158, September 1995, 59 pp.
12. Nishikawa Yūko, 'The Modern Japanese Family System: unique or universal?', chapter 13 in Denoon, Hudson, McCormack and Morris-Suzuki, eds, Multicultural Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 224-234.
13. Amino Yoshihiko, 'Emperor, Rice and Commoners', chapter 14 in ibid, pp. 235-244.
14. Nishikawa Nagao, 'Two Interpretations of Japanese Culture', chapter 15 in ibid, pp. 245-264.
15. Utsumi Aiko, 'Changing Views of the Occupation and the War Crimes' Trials', Paper to Australia-Japan Research Symposium, Australian War Memorial, 20-21 March 1997.
16. 'What is the 'Yasukuni Problem?', by Tanaka Nobumasa, translated from Sekai, No 679 and 680, September and October 2000 http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/yasukuni01.html, uploaded 25 May 2001.
17. 'Koizumi's "structural reform" - Critical Alternative Proposals, A Manifesto for the 21st Century', by Kaneko Masaru, Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki, Numao Namiko, Yun Chunji, from Sekai vol. 691 (August, 2001), http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/koizumireform01.html uploaded 5 October 2001.
18. 'Implementing Policy Change: The Possibilities and Limitations of the Koizumi Cabinet's "Highway Privatization Committee"', by Igarashi Takayoshi, translated from Sekai, No 699, (March 2002)http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/KoizumiCabinet01.html, uploaded 14 June 2002.
19. Utsumi Aiko, "Japan's WW ll POW Policy: Indifference and Irresponsibility," Japan Focus, uploaded 10 May 2005. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=276.
20. Umehara Takeshi, "What is Japanese Tradition," Japan Focus, uploaded 12 July 2005, jointly translated with Yusei Ota. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=332. Also at Asia Times, Z-Net, History News Network, etc.
21. Kajimura Tai'ichiro, "Democracy and National Security in South Korea: The Song Du Yol Affair," translated from text in Sekai, November 2004, in Japan Focus, No. 190, December 2004. http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=190
22. Miyagi Yasuhiro, "Okinawa – Rising Magma," translated from "Maku o orose! Sahangeki wa oshimai da," in Okinawa wa kichi o kyozetsu suru, Tokyo, Kobunken, 2005, Japan Focus, No 464, December 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=464

Other Publications

1. '"Gaju to kai no yume" kanko ni yosete', Postscript to Shinji Ayano, Gaju to kai no yume, Tokyo, Bungeisha, 2003, pp. 125-127. [ISBN4-8355-4961-9]