ビルマの竪琴 Biruma no tategoto [The Burmese Harp], 1956. Dir. 市川 崑 ICHIKAWA Kun. Starring 三國連太郎 MIKUNI Rentaro, YASUI Shoji. Nikkatsu.


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Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).WWI was a watershed moment for a lot of reasons, and 1919 for even more (some connected to the war, some not). Barnhart theorizes that the lessons of Germany's defeat taught Japanese politicians and military gurus ( Read more... )

Nobutaka Ike, ed., trans. Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967).Since D-Day is nearly upon me, I didn't have the time to meander through this volume - which is a shame, because it's really interesting. Translation (with explanatory notes) of the policy conferences leading up ( Read more... )