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offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is the Friends of History and Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Professor H.J. Mackinder International Relations.

The professor gives me permission for a book review, just momentarily.

There's a new book.

Judgment at Tokyo, World War II on trial in the Making of Modern Asia.

I recommend it. It's almost 900 pages, several hundred pages of notes and footnotes and diagrams. It is a very careful

accounting of the war crimes trials took place between 1946 and

1948 leading to the execution of several leaders of the Imperial

Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy, and the cabinets that made war. However, I learned from this book, Gary Bass is the author, that the Japanese do not

accept the verdict of that court, nor the way that the Americans and the other allies conducted themselves in 46 to 48

with regard the Japanese war.

Japan then and now sees the war as defensive.

The war was to prevent the empires of the Dutch Empire, the British Empire, the French Empire of taking over Asia.

They were pushing back hard and that led them to the war in China.

Now that is a Japanese point of view is not uniform but it exists and it exists

today hence they celebrate the descending opinion of the Indian judge. His name was Paul. They celebrate the

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