Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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The defense secretary's crusade is inflicting damage unlike any in history

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

Thousands of interrogations of ordinary Japanese men and women, conducted by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) in the autumn of 1945, have yet to receive sustained examination. This article...

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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On virtue, politics, and public service.

Trump’s impulsive foreign policy of grudges, threats, and contempt for allies is a self-defeating mess. His suave sophist struggles to spin it as strategically sound.

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Author Dr. Brian Walsh will examine the difficult topic of sexual violence during the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945-1951 and efforts by General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters to create a far ...

The president and the Pentagon are not being upfront about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.

An Air Force major’s recent protest in uniform provides an occasion to clarify the purpose and value of professional discipline in the military.

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Godzilla, the star of thirty-five live-action films, may be Japan’s most recognizable movie star and is now an icon of global popular culture. Going back to Gojira (1954), the somber, politically changed movie that launched the franchise, the giant irradiated monster famed for terrorizing Japan has been widely associated with the traumas of the atomic age: nuclear fear, Cold War anxieties, and the haunting nightmares of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But how can Gojira be used in the classroom to explore aspects of the Japanese experience beyond the legacies of the atomic bombs? This article...

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

Author Peter Mauch discusses the rise, fall, and attempted suicide of Japan's most controversial World War II general.

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BOOK REVIEW: Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II GeneralPeter Mauch / Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University PressReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleJean-Thomas Nic...

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MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.

Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.

本書は、東アジアにおける約150年の「アジア主義」の思想的展開を、思想家・政治家・活動家らの一次史料を通じて解明するものである。 日本のアジア主義者のみならず、中国・韓国・トルコ・インド・… - 引用：版元ドットコム

Exhibiting Japan explores Japan’s national pavilions at the 1939-40 and 1964-65 New York World’s Fairs, examining how the country presented itself at two of the most iconic cultural events of the 20th...