Members will be extremely pleased to know that the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Sir David Warren has kindly agreed to update the Society on his view of the situation in Japan during a forthcoming visit to London.

Touching on research conducted for his forthcoming book, The Peril of Self-Discipline (Harvard University Press, Fall 2012), Aaron William Moore will analyze how Japanese soldiers came to write ‘war diaries’ (jinchu nikki / jugun techo) during the period of total war in East Asia.