The scourge of companies subcontracting labor in order to maximize profit continues. Tokyo Electric Power Company runs the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor. Rather than employ the cleanup workers itself, it is relying on subcontractors that, not surprisingly, cut corners on such things as keeping workers safe. Most workers inside the plant are contract laborers hired […]
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On February 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese government signed the so-called “Gentlemen’s Agreement” to stop the migration of Japanese to the United States. Th
It should be blindingly obvious by now that no country is going to sacrifice anything meaningful, and especially economic growth, to reduce emissions enough to dent the impact of climate change. Not s
More Farley’s beat, but this footage of air warfare from Japanese archives in 1945 is pretty amazing to watch.
What a wonderful image of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force in action! Note the sinking PLAN carrier Liaoning in the background. Obviously there’s been some sort of dreadful accident
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-
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 and a variety of hybrid civil-military organizations took the problem of COIN quite seriously from a strategic point of view, appreciating that the only way […]
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, and Tokyo scrambling F-15s in r
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 colleg
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