Preparation for the Occupation of Japan
In the twenty years since Japan's surrender, new materials and greater perspective allow for more effective probing than heretofore of American policies on the occupation of Japan. This study aims to further this task by posing and answering—at least in part—several questions which underlay these policies.
Vision of Cooperation among the Allies and the Four-power Trusteeship Plan for Korea
Throughout World War II, US policy toward Korea was based on a trusteeship plan among the Allies. Instead of extending an early recognition to the Korean nationalists, Washington planned a trusteeship because it remained doubtful about the Koreans’ ability for self-governance. It also believed that the four-power trusteeship could mitigate the great power rivalry over postwar Korea. This approach was maintained by the Roosevelt administration until it reached the secret Far-Eastern agreement with the Russians at Yalta in February 1945.
Conflictual Media Events, Eyewitness Images, and the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
The proliferation of camera phones over the past decade has created an unprecedented landslide of visual information in the online public sphere, transforming the form and amount of communication in relation to crisis events. International research on this subject has primarily centered on the way in which the production and dissemination of eyewitness images convert mainstream media's coverage of crisis. This article broadens the perspective by focusing on eyewitness images in relation to “conflictual media events.” The article contributes to discussions on the definition of conflictual media events in today's mediatized and connective media environment, which has undergone radical changes from the era of mass media hegemony when Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz first outlined media events. The article further examines the ways in which the circulation of eyewitness images erodes established boundaries between experts and laymen and between professionals and non-professionals in relation to conflictual media events. The bombing of the Boston Marathon in April 2013 constitutes the empirical point of departure.