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Secluded and serene, the summer spot for many expat families faces challenges that aren't unique to other rural townships in Japan.

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The printed word is a powerful tool to inform and entertain. Books are places where imaginations can soar and opinions are often formed. While communities have seen pitched battles about

Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services Rape of Japanese Men and Women After World War II In one raid on Tokyo alone, in one night, an estimated 75,000 to 200,000 people, mostly women and children, were burned to death. Alexis: In response to the previous article, I received a number of messages from a reader positing the claim that “court history is mostly correct, with omissions, following Perry/Tokyo in 1856 were Rothschild, silk for arms traders, selling outdated British ships and artillery to Japan to start east war to distract Balkin war.”...

—National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020 U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence. This manufactured Pacific idea—what David Palumbo-Liu describes as a “repository of the American imaginary”—has borne ma...