Japan’s Civilizational Amnesia
by Kazuhiro Hayashida
Kazuhiro Hayashida argues that Japan’s harsh rhetoric towards Russia and the DPRK reveals a nation estranged from its own memory and standing at a crossroads between Western mimicry and Eurasian renewal.
Japan’s recent political rhetoric toward Russia and the DPRK—voiced most strikingly through the inflammatory statements of Sanae Takaichi1—reveals not on…
