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Sep 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Gary Bass
Tojo Hideki heard the soldiers coming for him. At his cottage in Tokyo’s leafy suburbs, on September 11, 1945, he was making no attempt to hide. With his fastidiously cropped mustache, bald head, round tortoise-shell glasses, and the assertive bearing of a career general, the prime minister of Imperial Japan during much of World War II was unmistakable.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
globalasia.org | John Nilsson-Wright |Gary Bass
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ORDER AND THE rule of law in contemporary East Asia are elusive concepts.
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May 2, 2024 | 
sinica.substack.com | Gary Bass |Serhii Plokhy |Kaiser Kuo
This week on Sinica, veteran reporter Jane Perlez, who served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beijing until 2019, joins to discuss her new podcast series Face-Off, which explores different facets of the U.S.-China relationship.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
audible.com | Nicholas Shakespeare |Stephen Breyer |Gary Bass |Mary Beard
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Gary Bass
In January 1649, shortly after his defeat by Parliament, King Charles I of England was brought before the High Court of Justice, a new-fangled tribunal established by the victors, to answer the novel charge of making war on his own people. It was probably the world’s first recognisable war crimes trial.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Gary Bass
Seventy-five years ago, around the cold and bleak midnight of Dec. 22-23, 1948, seven convicted Japanese war criminals were marched toward the gallows. Among these former top leaders were Gen. Hideki Tojo, a wartime prime minister found guilty for aggression at Pearl Harbor and for atrocities such as the Burma-Thailand death railway, and Gen. Iwane Matsui, the army commander at Nanjing, who was convicted of failing to prevent the slaughter and mass rape of Chinese there.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Gary Bass
Seventy-five years ago, around the cold and bleak midnight of Dec. 22-23, 1948, seven convicted Japanese war criminals were marched toward the gallows. Among these former top leaders were Gen. Hideki Tojo, a wartime prime minister found guilty for aggression at Pearl Harbor and for atrocities such as the Burma-Thailand death railway, and Gen. Iwane Matsui, the army commander at Nanjing, who was convicted of failing to prevent the slaughter and mass rape of Chinese there.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Gary Bass
Seventy-five years ago, around the cold and bleak midnight of Dec. 22-23, 1948, seven convicted Japanese war criminals were marched toward the gallows. Among these former top leaders were Gen. Hideki Tojo, a wartime prime minister found guilty for aggression at Pearl Harbor and for atrocities such as the Burma-Thailand death railway, and Gen. Iwane Matsui, the army commander at Nanjing, who was convicted of failing to prevent the slaughter and mass rape of Chinese there.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Gary Bass
Opinion|75 Years Later, Asia’s Wartime Memories Lingerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/opinion/tokyo-war-crimes-75-anniversary.htmlSeventy-five years ago, around the cold and bleak midnight of Dec. 22-23, 1948, seven convicted Japanese war criminals were marched toward the gallows. Among these former top leaders were Gen. Hideki Tojo, a wartime prime minister found guilty for aggression at Pearl Harbor and for atrocities such as the Burma-Thailand death railway, and Gen.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
princeton.edu | Gary Bass |Peter Brown |Yiyun Li |Idra Novey
These 13 books by Princeton professors have all been selected for at least one 2023 year-end “best of” list. Whether you’re looking for a title to buy for a friend or to treat yourself, they check every box: novels, memoir, history, short stories, poetry, essays and nonfiction.
