Introduction
Janus Isaac V. NOLASCO
ARTICLES
Filipino Workers in Japan between 1980 and 2010: A Study of Political and Socioeconomic Mechanisms of International Migration
John LAMBINO
Social Networks and the Employability of Filipinos in the United States
Ruby ABSUELO and Peter HANCOCK
Pentecostalism and Pulitika: A Case Study in Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines
Chuan Yean SOON
Contested National Development: Executive-Legislative Relations in American Colonial Philippines and the Cabinet Crisis of 1923
Vicente Angel S. YBIERNAS
COMMENTARIES
Indonesia 1965: Rehabilitating Victims, Rehabilitating Revolution
Max LANE
Cross-Strait Relations: Diplomatic Entanglement or Rapprochement?
Raymond Leh-Sheng WANG
Reclaiming the ASEAN Community for the People
ACSC/APF 2015 – CSO Statement
Japanese NGOs’ 10 Recommendations for Revision of Japan’s ODA Charter
Why is the Umno-BN government using the Sedition Act to arrest people now?
Francis LOH
Scholars, Writers and Thinkers Call for Academic Freedom in Thailand
Various academics and scholars
REVIEWS
Ryōsai Kenbo: The Educational Ideal of ‘Good Wife, Wise Mother’ in Modern Japan by Koyama Shizuko
Reviewed by Angelo Christiane ARRIOLA
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam by Edward Miller
Reviewed by Nicole CuUNJIENG
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony by Yoshiko Nagano
Reviewed by Vicente Angel YBIERNAS
Patriarchy in East Asia: A Comparative Sociology of Gender by Sechiyama Kaku
Reviewed by Alleson VILLOTA II
POETRY
Hanoi October
Thomas David CHAVES
Hacienda Haiku
Pauline Mari HERNANDO
Bali, Indonesia
Max LANE
To a Filipina in a Peony Garden/Ngadto Hin Filipina Ha Hardin Han Mga Peony
Jose Duke BAGULAYA
Manifesto
Kyoto University Campaign for Freedom and Peace
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