{"id":5387,"date":"2007-09-18T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2007\/09\/worth-noting\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:34","slug":"worth-noting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/09\/worth-noting\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Noting"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Dower kicks off the American Historical Association’s Perspectives<\/i> newsletter’s new “Masters at the Movies” series<\/a> with a review and commentary of the two Eastwood Iwo Jima movies<\/a>. It is, as you’d expect from John Dower, well sourced, psychologically sensitive, clear-headed and even-handed. Nothing very<\/i> new there, but a good survey of the end-of-war issues and narratives. End-of-war issues remain<\/a> sensitive<\/a> in<\/a> Japan<\/a>1<\/a><\/sup>. For a completely different perspective, Richard Frank’s review of Maddox’s Hiroshima book<\/a> claims, as so many conservative commentators have before, that it settles the “revisionism” questions once and for all. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Non Sequitur<\/i>: In other news, this week’s Japan Focus<\/a> is all about current immigration issues in Japan, so I’ll have to read it and see if anyone’s got an historical perspective worth noting.<\/p>\n

  1. then there’s the cabinet minister resignation, etc.  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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