6 April 2011
edited by Guy Podoler, Global Oriental, 2009, 242 pages including index and bibliography, ISBN978-1-905246-85-4 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi This collection of essays reproduces papers prepared for “The International Conference on Japan in Honour of Professor Ben-Ami Shillony,” which took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel between 29 April and 2 May [...]
1 April 2011
Professor Gough’s Historical Dreadnoughts is biography rather than autobiography. It is a joint biography of two historians of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century. While much of the book is taken up with disputes between these two historical giants – historians have been known to disagree! –it contains much of relevance to the story of the Asia-Pacific war.
1 April 2011
Ramesh Benegal (1926-2003) was born in Rangoon, Burma, to an Indian family. When Rangoon was bombed by the Japanese, he was evacuated at the age of 15 with his mother in the hope of reaching India by an overland route. This proving impossible, he returned to Rangoon. Ramesh became infused with aspirations for Indian independence and felt that the Japanese could help in achieving this. He registered at a Japanese language school and joined the Indian National Army (INA) [also known as Azad Hind Fauj - Azad Hind means Free India]. Impressed by Japan’s airpower, he volunteered for training in her airforce. He was invited to dinner by Subhas Chandra Bose [popularly known as Netaji – respected leader], the head of the INA [and one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement], at his official Rangoon residence and was selected for training in Japan.
14 December 2010
Japan and its worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Studies
Edited by Martin Collcut, Kato Mikio and Ronald P. Toby
I House Press, Tokyo, 2007, 299 pages including index, ISBN 978-4-903452-08-1
Review by Ian Nish
18 October 2010
by Seigow Matsuoka, Everett Kennedy Brown PARCO Publishing (Ltd.) Parco Entertainment Business Bureau, January 2010, 303pares, 1600yen, ISBN: 978-4-89194-814-6 0095 Review by Mikihiro Maeda Seigow Matsuoka was born in 1944 in Kyoto. After serving as Object Magazine “Yu (play)” editor, visiting professor at Tokyo University, and Professor at Tezukayama Gakuin, now he is Director of Editorial [...]
20 September 2010
Edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Global Oriental in association with the Japan Society, 2010, 665 pages, ISBN: 978-1906876265
6 August 2010
by Alistair D. Swale, pp 206 including index, select bibliography and notes, ISBN 13: 978-0-230-59386-2,Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
6 August 2010
by Matsuura Masataka (松浦 正孝), Nagoya University Press (名古屋大学出版会), 2010, 1079 pages, ISBN 978-4-8158-0629-3, 9975 yen
6 August 2010
Takeo Iguchi, translated by David Noble, 343 pages including index and bibliography, I-House Press, Tokyo, 2010, ISBN 978-4-903452-19-7
6 August 2010
By Caroline Rose, Routledge, 2005, 175 pages, ISBN 0-415-29722-2
