Social Sciences
In the previous post, Professor Penn mentioned the effect of former Air Self Defense Force General Toshio Tamogami's revisionist views on Japanese politics. He won a prize for an essay, Was Japan an Aggressor Nation, which concluded that Japan was a victim of American deception and colonialism. Since being "retired" in October 2008 from Japan's Self-Defense Forces where he was Chief of Staff, the General has had an active speaking and publishing career.
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Toshio MotoyaThe Frenchman found it. The Englishman skewered it. And the Americans either puzzled over it or analyzed it. But the kicker is that one of America's most prominent Japan Alliance Managers repeated it, some of it. No matter...
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Social Sciences
See General Tamogami for yourself
In the previous post, Professor Penn mentioned the effect of former Air Self Defense Force General Toshio Tamogami's revisionist views on Japanese politics. He won a prize for an essay, Was Japan an Aggressor Nation, which concluded that Japan was a victim of American deception and colonialism. Since being "retired" in October 2008 from Japan's Self-Defense Forces where he was Chief of Staff, the General has had an active speaking and publishing career.He has a dynamic website that the lists all his writings and speaking engagements. The photo above is from this site.
On March 25-26th, he will be in New York City giving talks at the University Club and during a dinner cruise on the Hudson. There was some controversy surrounding these engagements, as former Governor Mike Huckabee had been scheduled to moderate. The Governor is no longer on the program.
Later: The January 24, 2010 edition of the Japan Times has an interview with General Tamogami by David McNeil, "The wartime leaders of Japan were heros."
- App On Huffington Post Live!
Today, April 4, APP director Mindy Kotler joined APP member Ms. Shihoko Goto of the Wilson Center Asia Program, Ms. Yuki Tatsumi of the Stimson Centers, and Professor Thomas Berger of Boston University on Huffington Post Live to discussion whether Japan...
- On Message
Toshio MotoyaThe Frenchman found it. The Englishman skewered it. And the Americans either puzzled over it or analyzed it. But the kicker is that one of America's most prominent Japan Alliance Managers repeated it, some of it. No matter...
- No Comfort
From Foreign Policy's The Cable blog: Japanese comfort- women deniers force White House response Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 4:50 PM Right-wing Japanese lawmakers and activists have successfully rounded...
- Contrasts On The Right
PERSPECTIVE TOWARD A RENEWED U.S.-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. 12/12, Lunch, 11:30-12:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speaker: Nobuteru Ishihara, Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP). MAINTAINING AMERICA?S GLOBAL...
- Why Dpj Said 'no' To An Indian Ocean Mission
It shouldn?t really be necessary to explain why the Hatoyama government allowed the refueling mission in the Indian Ocean to lapse this week. For several years, Democratic Party of Japan leaders have made their objections to this military operation loud...