ABOUT

We are an independent group of academics and civil society individuals with a concern for issues of peace and reconciliation in East Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region.

WEBSITE EDITOR -
Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI, Professor Emerita, Australian National University.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor Emerita of History at the Australian National University, where she previously held the positions of Distinguished Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. Her research focuses on the history of modern Japan and East Asia more widely, with a special interest in frontiers, migration and minorities and historical conflict and reconciliation. Her recent books include Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2020); On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asian Borders (ANU Press, 2020). In 2013 she was awarded the Fukuoka Prize (Academic Award) for contributions to Asian Studies.


ADVISORY BOARD 

LAN Mike Shi  Chi, Associate Professor, National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan.
Shi-chi Mike Lan (Ph.D., Chicago) is an associate professor at the Department of History of the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Previously, he taught at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and held visiting positions at the University of Tokyo, Rikkyo University, and Kyoto University in Japan. His research interests include Modern East Asian History, the Second World War, historical memory, and history of migration. He had served as history consultants on projects related to the Second World War, including the award-winning documentary From Island to Island  (Director Lau Kek Huat, Taiwan, 2024).

LEE Joowhee, Research Professor, Yonsei University.
Lee Joowhee is a Research Professor at Yonsei University's Institute of Global Korean Studies and also teaches at Hanyang University's Department of Cultural Anthropology. Her research examines how the politics of memory in East Asia shapes the lives of individuals and families across generations. She received his PhD based on oral history research into the family histories of Zainichi Koreans who returned to North Korea, and his current work traces how migrants — including the Korean diaspora and North Korean defectors — create and reconstruct "rituals" amid transnational movement.

David MCNEILL - Professor, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo.
David McNeill was born in the UK and raised in Ireland. He was awarded his PhD from Napier University in Edinburgh in 1998. He has since taught at universities in Ireland, the UK, China and Japan and is currently professor of liberal arts at University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. He is an editor and board member of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus and was previously a correspondent for the Independent, the Economist and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a columnist for The Mainichi and The Japan Times. McNeill is a long-time member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan and currently edits No1 Shimbun, the FCCJ’s house magazine, while also serving as co-chair of the FCCJ’s Freedom of the Press Committee. He is co-author of Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and Japanese Rebels: Non-conformists in a Conformist Society(Routledge, 2026). 

Uchralt OTEDE PhD -  Instructor, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Diplomatic Academy, Australia. 
Dr. Uchralt Otede teaches Japanese and Mandarin through UNSW Canberra at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Diplomatic Academy, Australia. His research focuses on environmental politics and activism in Mongolia, as well as religion and ethnic issues in contemporary China.

TAKAHASHI Shinnosuke - Lecturer, Monash University, Australia.
Shinnosuke Takahashi is a scholar and editor based in Naarn/Melbourne, Australia, whose work concerns the history and politics of minorities in Japan and their struggles for social justice and civil rights. He has written on Okinawa and its regional relations in modern Asia and the Pacific (link). Born into a four-generation migrant family, spanning East Asia and Latin America, Takahashi has also published works on the history and politics of migrants in and from Japan (link). Takahashi is a co-founder and editor of Counterwinds, an online media magazine for critical voices across the region.

The website provides links to news and groups representing diverse perspectives on peace in East Asia. The opinions expressed in individual news items and events introduced by the website may not necessarily reflect the views of the site's editor or Advisory Board members.