This excellent book published in 2009 and updated in 2012 argues that a modernising and modernised China will retain her essential Chineseness. Jacques contends that…
View More Provocative – When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
This is an excellent book. It is highly readable and based on extensive research. There is also a useful list of Further Reading at the…
View More Excellent – China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival
This biography of Hirohito deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize and the National book critics circle award. I read this biography in 2006. It is still…
View More Biography – Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
I read this book when I visited Kyoto in early April 2019 for a legal conference and to see the sakura. If you are reading…
View More Soul of Japan – Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan
Kawamura attempts in this 2015 book to exonerate Hirohito from any form of culpability for the war waged by the Japanese government against China, the…
View More Partisan viewpoint – Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
This book has been criticised { rightly} for having some factual mistakes and { unjustifiably} for putting its appendices and maps on a website. These…
View More The definitive history of the Pacific war – Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945
This 340 page book is wonderfully concise. Covering the origins of Japan to 2004 one is introduced to the key periods of Japanese history including…
View More A beautifully concise narrative – Japan: Its History and Culture
” In all four seas all are brothers and sisters.Then why, oh why, these rough winds and waves? “ This poem was read aloud by…
View More Written from Japanese sources – Japan 1941
Kawamura attempts in this 2015 book to exonerate Hirohito from any form of culpability for the war waged by the Japanese government against China, the…
View More A partisan viewpoint – Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War