Interesting (slightly old) piece on Isoruku Yamamoto in Japanese historical memory: Unlike the Yushukan museum at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, the Yamamoto museum does not appear to re-write or glorify Japan’s war history. A small exhibit notes Yamamoto’s role in the attack on...
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This week's Diplomat column takes a look at COIN in the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the Murray-Mansoor edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Yamaguchi suggests that elements of the Japanese Army.
Let me be the first to point out that there is no way in which this could end up badly: After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan,.
Wow. One of the most bizarre episodes in the entire occupation of Japan took place less than two months later, on January 1, 1946, in Nagasaki. Back in the States, the Rose Bowl and other major college football bowl games, with the Great War over,...
On Foreign Entanglements, Dr. Toshi Yoshihara and I discuss rising tensions in the East China Sea:
For those who believe that science is apolitical, allow me to present Exhibit A: rare photographs from Hiroshima. I'm not saying the relationship between politics and science is inherently good.
Excellent article on the development of Japanese carrier aviation in the months before Pearl Harbor: The picture that emerges is of an enemy carrier force whose capabilities in late 1941 were mutating almost overnight. The Kido Butai of December 1941 was entirely different from the...
Is Caligula misunderstood? Scott Mclemee reviews Aloys Winterling's efforts in this regard: But what if all of these claims about Caligula were wrong, or at least overblown? What if he.
I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match.
This seems like a small sample size to me, but the scientists say it is statistically significant: The recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates that eight cities in the northwest U.S. (Boise ID, Seattle WA, Portland OR, plus the northern California cities of...
My WPR column this week is on the future of the JSDF: As with all military organizations, the JSDF will face conflicting priorities in the future. On the one hand,.
This is no good: Toyota said Monday it is inevitable the company will be forced to shut down all of its North American factories — including its largest, in Georgetown.