Downsizing Shinzō AbeJapanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe built an image of a creative disruptor. He disrupted a lot, but he didn’t create much....JEFF KINGSTONAROUND THE WORLDPOLITICSBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Exhuming Lafcadio HearnJeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn....JEFF KINGSTONAROUND THE WORLDFICTION
A High-Stakes Gamble: Jeff Kingston on Eri Hotta’s Japan 1941ERI 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). ...JEFF KINGSTONHISTORY