The heterodox cabinet

Nagasaki shouldn’t have politicized its A-bomb ceremony

International

The wrong headlines have been generated, just as always seems to be the case when politics intrudes on what ought to be strictly non-political

Philip Patrick

I’m woken the next morning by a fishing boat chugging out of the harbor

David Mitchell

The choices we face are often not between good and bad but between bad and worse

Roger Kimball

The issue of how Japan’s role in World War Two is portrayed by western media is a live one

Philip Patrick

Film

The country as a whole is far less bitter about World War Two than many Americans think it is

Oliver Jia

International
May 20, 2023
How to avoid repeating the horrors of Hiroshima
We need an international treaty banning the weaponization of nuclear sites
Serhii Plokhy
International
December 18, 2022
The necessity of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Psychological aspects of Japan’s wartime death cult have been almost entirely ignored by the revisionist historians
Francis Pike
International
August 5, 2022
The myth that Hiroshima was necessary
The ‘we had no choice’ excuse has had twenty-first century consequences
Peter Van Buren
Books
November 15, 2018
Japanese puzzle: how can an advanced, dynamic country function with such an ancient population?
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding reviewed
Bill Emmott