bout de papier, Volume 13, Issue No. 2, 1996
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Inside Herbert Bix’s monumental Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan are two books struggling to get out. One is an impressively detailed academic study of the Japanese emperor’s education, character and rule in the context of post-Meiji Japan’s intellectual, political and…
Of General Interest — for a Change
A perpetual lament of Canadians — and especially of our diplomats – is that Americans (and sometimes their government) tend either to ignore us or to take us for granted. For the most part, observations by Canadian statesmen and others about Canadian-…
