24/11/2015
Not long ago, Stephen Morgan was dining at a restaurant in Sichuan Province, in southwestern China, when an employment advertisement caught his eye. In addition to experience and skills, it listed height requirements for each position—the higher the ranking, the taller the stature. A female kitchen hand had to measure at least four feet nine […]
11/11/2015
Lee Kyong Wan, Research Professor, Academic rank: Doctor (PhD), Halllim University (Republic of Korea), arachika@naver.com Abstract: Koreans conscripted to Sakhalin by Japanese colonizers during the World War II experienced inexorable sufferings from racial persecution and harsh labor. Even after the war, their human rights were downtrodden by all national societies. These nations should take moral and legal responsibilities for […]
Опубликовано в Articles, Articles, Articles, Articles, Japan, Korea, North Korea, Russia, South Korea 
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Andrey Gubin, PhD in Political Science, Director of Scientific Programs of the RISS Asia-Pacific Centre, Assistant Professor at the International Relations Department of Far Eastern Federal University, Expert of RIAC At the present time the Asia-Pacific region is not the global periphery, but rather a place for potential confrontation between both the great and the […]
10/11/2015
During the conference, sponsored by the oil company Chevron, US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland reported that, since 1991, her country had invested in Ukraine, which is one of the most strategically important countries, more than 5 billion dollars. She added that it was done not to eradicate poverty. A few days before there was […]
Опубликовано в Policy, Press Review, Press Review, Press Review, Russia, Ukraine crisis, Unites States Комментариев нет » 10/11/2015
By Tanaka Sakai Introduction by Kimie HARA In August 2006, Japan-Russia relations were strained when a Russian patrol fired warning shots at a Japanese fishing boat, killing a member of the crew. The boat was near disputed islands—what the Japanese call the Northern Territories and the Russians call the Southern Kuriles. The incident occurred in […]
10/11/2015 30 September 2015, international research and practice conference «The end of the Second World War at Russia’s Far East: historical results and modern tendencies of world peace» was held in Khabarovsk. Conference was devoted to 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The idea came from public of Khabarovsk and Khabarovsk Region, […]
10/11/2015
From 10 to 20 April 2015 the representatives of Asia-Pacific International Relations Study Center in the persons of Valery Timoshenko, Alexander Ivanov and Alexey Samokhin visited North Korea by invitation of Association of Social Sciences. At the airport in Pyongyang, the delegation was met by the deputy chairman of the Committee of Promotion the Workers’ […]