Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe built an image of a creative disruptor. He disrupted a lot, but he didn’t create much....

Jeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn....

ERI HOTTA'S lucid analysis of Japan’s march to war against the United States in December 1941 resonates uncannily with Europe’s lemming-like leap to its own destruction in World War I, as described by Christopher Clark in The Sleepwalkers (2013). ...