Japan and Middle East Politics in History
The paper begins, “Most people at the turn of the twenty-first century have forgotten that there was a time in Japan before World War II when Japanese nationalists showed an Asianist face to the world’s Muslims, whom they wanted to befriend as allies in the construction of a new Asia under Japanese domination.” Muslims saw the rising Japanese power as a counterforce to Western imperialism. What a fascinating history.
On a similar, but very separate, note, check out this interview with May Shigenobu, the daughter of imprisoned Japanese Red Army founder, Fusako Shigenobu. May was at the center of a controversy over a talk she gave at a school. She also criticized her mother’s lack of access to health care in prison.
