I hate this time of year. I’ve hated it for a long time, and for good reason.
Now, thanks to my good friend Ralph Luker, I have more reasons to thoroughly hate it again.
Worse, I’m going to have to go through it again in a few months, what with my 20th century Japan class coming up this semester….
It is a biggie…and touches off more flame wars than anything I have seen on H-Japan in a while…
Just seeing how it has dominated discussions on the list for a while now makes me cringe at trying to manage all the different aspects of this kind of debate: http://www.h-net.org/~japan/