Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan Behind the Bastards

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

FOOTNOTES:


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

 

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