All posts by Michimi Muranushi

Michimi Muranushi is a professor at the Scholar of International Politics with the Department of Law at Gakushin University, Tokyo, with the research focus on China, N. Korea, Myanmar, wars and genocides.

The Exceptionality of the Powerless and the Banality of Power: Japan’s Rohingya Community and the Japanese State

By imposing sanctions on Japanese businesses that associate with the criminal state of Myanmar, the U.S. and Europe can make Japan and its industries pay the price for the desires hidden behind their pretensions of peace and prosperity.

/ September 12, 2022

Comedians’ Tragedy: The Global Shortage of Cynicism in the Russian-Ukrainian War

The world has no choice but to condemn the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It has no choice but to help the Ukrainians to end the war with honor. But it is the role of the Ukrainians to produce statesmen who understand that the Ukrainians need to suspect not only the Russians but also the Americans and the Europeans.

/ March 30, 2022