Shaun O'Dwyer
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Shaun O'Dwyer
@shaunodwyer.bsky.social
Professor, Kyushu University
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
More details about PRC efforts to shut down Uyghur forced labour research at Sheffield Hallam University - university correspondence shared with BBC News alleges that the *wellbeing* of a university staffer in Beijing was threatened by MSS officers.

It appears they threatened to detain the staffer.
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
An Australian woman has been sentenced to 6 years jail in Japan for being romance-scammed into becoming a (possibly unknowing) drug mule. She's a fool, but perhaps we should have more compassion for gullible people of a certain age who are targeted like this. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Japanese court rejects an appeal by Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A Japanese court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by an Australian woman who said she was tricked into smuggling drugs by a man she hoped to marry, allowing a six-year prison sentence issued by a lower...
www.asahi.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One thing I'll agree with her on - the shuttering of the Maanshan nuclear power plant was a terrible mistake. Not the only instance of national geopolitical and energy policy self-harm since the Fukushima disaster.
October 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
As a foreigner living in Japan I find this international meeting of bigoted minds very depressing. I hope none of these nutters finds out my university has a whole cafeteria serving Halal meals
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Well, if their default response to sectarian disagreement is no longer "he needs killin'" I have no complaints
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM