Presidential address--Samurai trouble: Thoughts on war and loyalty

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There is a powerful argument made for the necessity of teaching about warfare without jingoism, without sentimentality, and without creating the romance of the good soldier. The American war in Iraq makes this kind of 'truth telling about war' an essential component of scholarship and teaching.

Author: Berry, Mary Elizabeth
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2005
United States, Iraq, Military art and science, Military science, Iraq War, 2003-, Chauvinism and jingoism, Jingoism

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The Tokyo judgment and the rape of Nanking

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This article discusses the controversy over the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's judgment of Japan's brutal colonization of Nanking, China. Topics include massacre, war crime trial history, and international law.

Author: Brook, Timothy
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2001
China, Japan, Cases, War crime trials, Crimes against humanity, Nanjing, China, Political atrocities

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Samurai status, class and bureaucracy: a historiographical essay

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Research is presented describing the implications of labour and class on the status of samurai warriors during the 1580s historical period of Japan.

Author: Howland, Douglas
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2001
Samurai

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Subjects list: Analysis, Japan, History, Japanese history
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