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Sep 2021
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Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who...

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Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Nobusuke Kishi.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. Machiavelli’s Children Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels
  2. Chinese Comfort Women Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves by Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei
  3. Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro
  4. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories By Paul H. Kratoska
  5. The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 Their Lives and Times Edited by Akio Watanabe 
  6. Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque:The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 By Mark Driscoll
  7. Zengakuren: Japan's Revolutionary Student by Stuart J. Dowsey
  8. Planning for Empire Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis Mimura
  9. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara
  10. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F10%2F09%2Fworld%2Fcia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html
  11. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268783/the-imperial-ghost-in-the-neoliberal-machine-figuring-the-cia/
  12. https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/inside-story-of-us-black-ops-in-post-war-japan/
  13. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fessay%2F2015%2F08%2F15%2Fthe-unquiet-past
  14. https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/
  15. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/assassination-attempt-nobusuke-kishi/
  16. https://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf

 

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