Showing posts with label Japanese history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese history. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Naval air power: Aircraft carrier tactics in the Pacific War

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In Italy, the distant Battle of Taranto proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers In November 1940, a British   aircraft carrier  launch...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Asia and the Pacific

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit special caution. We a...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Air power in the World Wars: From “expensive toy” to a serious weapon

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“There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well, my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet, and we sha...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

A review of “Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II” (BBC)

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Warning: This blog post contains several disturbing pictures. One of them shows the body of a child. The Japanese were racist against other ...
Friday, September 1, 2023

A review of “The Road to War” (BBC)

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Why did World War II happen? It’s a complicated (and interesting) topic, involving causes in many different nations. Some of these involve  ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

A review of David Grubin's “The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha” (PBS)

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For practicing Buddhists, Siddhartha Gautama was just the first Buddha … At the time I write this, I have watched eight other films by ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

A review of “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire” (PBS Empires)

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Japan's initial contact with the West in 1543 In the year 1543, a Portuguese trading ship arrived in the Japanese island of Tanegash...
Friday, December 7, 2018

A review of “Tora! Tora! Tora!” (1970 movie)

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“Thus, the earnest hope of the Japanese Government to adjust Japanese-American relations and to preserve and promote the peace of the Paci...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Why dropping the bombs on Japan was the RIGHT thing to do

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“We the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied E...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

A review of “A History of Japan” (by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger)

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"We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for o...
Friday, April 3, 2015

The Marshall Plan: Helping the poor, keeping the peace, and stopping the communists

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"If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for...
Friday, June 6, 2014

A review of “The World at War” (World War Two series)

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"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin Nevile Henderson handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we hear...