Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan

Christopher Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Nobusuke Kishi. FOOTNOTES: Machiavelli’s Children Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels Chinese Comfort Women Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves by Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories By Paul H. Kratoska The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 Their Lives and Times Edited by Akio Watanabe  Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque:The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 By Mark Driscoll Zengakuren: Japan's Revolutionary Student by Stuart J. Dowsey Planning for Empire Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis Mimura Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F10%2F09%2Fworld%2Fcia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268783/the-imperial-ghost-in-the-neoliberal-machine-figuring-the-cia/ https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/inside-story-of-us-black-ops-in-post-war-japan/ https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fessay%2F2015%2F08%2F15%2Fthe-unquiet-past https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/assassination-attempt-nobusuke-kishi/ https://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com