Will Japan’s habit of rewriting its history affect its future?
December 12, 2014Author: Washington Post
Categories: Views
Richard Cohen presents an opinion piece discussing Japan’s controversial wartime past and how modern leaders in the press and in the government are skewing views to fit their agenda.
Tags: comfort women, history, opinion, POW, prisoners of war, Shinzo Abe, textbook controversy, wartime past, Yasukuni
Opinion: High-level disorganization still hobbles Japan
December 9, 2014Author: The Japan Times
Categories: Views
Noah Smith, assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, delves into Japan’s wartime past to discuss the rationale of imperial Japan’s attacks on the United States, Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union as a way to show that both then and now, Japan struggles with disorganized leadership.
Tags: imperial, leadership, Pearl Harbor, Shinzo Abe, wartime past, World War II, WWII
Hirohito: String Puller, Not Puppet
November 14, 2014Author: New York Times
Categories: Views
In the works since 1990 (the year after his death), the Japanese government released an official biography of Emperor Hirohito and his life leading up to, during and after World War II.
Tags: emperor, Hirohito, history, imperial, textbook controversy, wartime past, World War II, WWII