We are pleased to announce that Prof. Akihiro Iwashita's essay "Japan's Foreign Minister Maehara Brinkmanship with China and Russia" was published in the Dec. 2 evening edition of the local newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun.

The English translation of his essay has been uploaded to our website in the section "essays" or you may click the following URL to go directly to the essay:
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/BorderStudies/en/essays/essays/index.htm