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Selected Bibliography
Gordon, Andrew (2003). A Modern History of Japan. Oxford University Press. First Edition.
Vogel, Ezra F. (2019). China and Japan: Facing History. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Driscoll, Mark W. (2020). The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection. Duke University Press.
Jolliffe, Pia M. (2020). Forced Labour in Imperial Japan’s First Colony: Hokkaidō. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Novic, Elisa. (2016). The concept of cultural genocide : an international law perspective. European University Institute.
Soh, C. Sarah. (2008). The Comfort Women. The University of Chicago Press.
Shaun. (2020). Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go
Harris, Sheldon H. (1995). Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up. Routledge. 1st Edition.
McCormack, Gavan. (2007). Client State: Japan in the American Embrace.
Yoshida, Takashi. (2006). The Making of the "R___ of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States. Oxford University Press. 1st Edition.
Chotiner, Isaac. (2022). How Shinzo Abe Sought to Rewrite Japanese History. New Yorker.
Szendi Schieder, Chelsea. (2021). The History the Japanese Government Is Trying to Erase. The Nation.
Kamen, Paula. (2009). Iris Chang - The woman who loved truth. Stuff.
McCurry, Justin. (2013). Japanese animator under fire for film tribute to warplane designer. The Guardian.
Study of Swords. (2024). A Critical Response to Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda, and Soft Power Politics.
https://youtu.be/GiRhIxECFjY
00:00 introduction
05:41 スポンサーからのメッセージ
07:10 how we got here
10:46 open up! it's matthew perry!
14:51 rise of the empire
25:33 what the empire did
31:28 Hokkaido
34:52 Okinawa
34:57 china
43:39 war (with china)
57:16 world war ii
1:05:07 korea
1:13:06 southeast asia
1:18:43 a note on the 'coprosperity sphere'
1:22:07 getting away with war crimes, and unit 731
1:39:03 us imperialism
1:45:31 Okinawa, and the deal
1:54:10 recession/regression
2:03:18 denialism
2:11:24 the Shinzo abe problem
2:19:55 losing your cool
2:26:05 the part where i criticize another youtuber for their popular video