検索キーワード： アジア

2024年1月、中国と日本・アメリカを巻き込むアジア最大のイベント「台湾総統選挙」。筆者は前哨戦となった2022年の台湾統一地方選挙をはじめ、李登輝、陳水扁時代にさかのぼる「民主化の奇跡」の足跡と現在をルポ。

・私たちの先人は朝鮮半島で何をしたのか？・朝鮮にかかわったのが大失敗だった！・残酷すぎる日韓関係の真実、併合時代にすべての問題の原因がある

習近平“赤い王朝”は崩壊する運命にある！?「歴史上、王朝を滅亡に導いた皇帝たちの行状の一つひとつを丹念に見ていくうちに、大変面白いことに気がついた。“亡国の君”たちが持つ人間性や性格上の欠陥、愚昧(ぐまい)さと狂気さ……それらのもののすべてが、習近平その人に集約されていたのだ」暴君・愚君・狂君・蕩君・暗君・無徳・無能……中国王朝が滅ぶ法則はこれだ！

なぜハン・ガンは、アジア人女性として初めて、ノーベル文学賞を受賞したのか？大きな話題を呼んだ原著に、この2年、激動する韓国文学の重要作の解説を加筆、40頁増の新版登場！ 韓国文学は、なぜこんなにも面白く、パワフルで魅力的なのか。

中国共産党に忠実で、清く正しい人々。ゴミ一つ落ちておらず、スリもいない完璧な町。だが、この地のウイグル人たちをよく観察してみると、何かがおかしい。若い男性は相対的に少なく、老人たちに笑顔が見られない。観光客に接する女性たちの表情は妙に硬い。

アジアや東欧の民主化の先駆けとなったピープルパワー革命から約40年．国を追われた独裁者の息子が大統領となり，父の戒厳令下での人権侵害や蓄財の記憶が消されようとしている．

2025年にGDPが日本を超えることが確実視されているインドと、経済力に翳りが見えてきたと囁かれている中国。
人口の多さに共通点がある両国だが、日本にとってインドは中国の「代わり」になるのか――

・IT大国の背景に

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

累計70万部突破著者が、華やかなエンタメの裏にある「本当の韓国」を、最新ニュースとともに鋭利に分析！

台湾統一（併合）か現状維持か――。中台関係の緊張が続き、軍事衝突への危機感が高まっている。ひとたび「有事」となれば、日本経済は壊滅的な打撃を受けるだろう。ビジネスパーソンにも「台湾リスク」の全容を知ってほしい。

Compelling and incisive, Autocracy 2.0 is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand China's meteoric rise and how today's autocrats are reshaping the technological frontier, governance, and the global balance of power.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read … magnificent’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving'...

The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real.

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority.

The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later, the hope of producing a benign People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist Party of China deceived the West into believing that its system and the Party-ruled People's Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat.

Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.

A stunning blend of investigative journalism, authoritative science writing, and embedded ethnography. Every Human Intention captures the unsettling, lyrical beauty of the intimate moments and buried secrets that form Japan’s national drama. “An absolute marvel. Reveals the inner workings...

An inspiring survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with...

A thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency—an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The national security expert who predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine argues that Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan—with dire global stakes if he is not deterred “An excellent source.” —Economist We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with...