Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the Japanese and the Americans painted him as a ...
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...
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Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...
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A century after he was born and 55 years after he met his grisly end, we still find Yukio Mishima’s works compelling and ...
Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...
​In other words, President Zelensky found himself defending his nation from attack not only by a ruthless Russian dictator ...
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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...