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The Philippines is one of the largest countries in the world. With a population of 115 million people, it is the 14th largest country in the world in terms of population.  However, for a period of 48 years, it was a colony of the United States. That half-century was one of the most important in the history of the Philippines. It saw two major wars, profound social and cultural changes, and laid the foundation for full independence.  Learn more about the period of American occupation of the Philippines and how it changed both countries on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond at your local store. Find out more at heavenhilldistillery.com/hh-bottled-in-bond.php Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free offer and get $20 off. Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month. Use the code EverythingEverywhere for a 20% discount on a subscription at Newspapers.com. Visit meminto.com and get 15% off with code EED15.  Listen to Expedition Unknown wherever you get your podcasts.  Get started with a $13 trial set for just $3 at harrys.com/EVERYTHING. Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Ben Long & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we talk with Alexa Rodríguez about her recent article in History of Education Quarterly. Open-access link to the article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/narrative-from-the-margins-community-and-agency-during-the-us-occupation-of-the-dominican-republic-19161924/A31492112649B9D256B86703BBBF80B6

In a unique take on this topic, Carmina and Patch tackle the Philippines' quest for independence from the vantagepoint of America's political landscape. Much tea was spilled ala-TMZ to explain the long and winding road towards the Philippines' ultimate freedom from the Americans, including commentary by Mark Twain (yes, THAT Mark Twain) on the matter. To learn more: US Occupation in the Philippines: the Disconnect between Colonizer and Colonized, and a Different Type of Resistance, A Brief History of America: Contradictions & Divisions in the United States from the Revolutionary Era to the Present Day, Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century, American Interests and Philippine Independence, Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, and Liberal, Imperial, and Economic Motivation of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Philippines 1898-1946.Relisten to Season 1, Episode 16: “August 23, June 12, or July 4? The Philippine Independence Saga” to discover why June 12 is the “official” Philippine Independence Day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you listen. To support FilTrip, go to the Patreon page here and PayPal page here.Visit https://filtrip.buzzsprout.com. Drop a note at thefiltrip@gmail.com.Thanks to FilTrip's sponsor SOLEPACK. Visit thesolepack.com for more details.See https://www.buzzsprout.com/privacy for Privacy Policy.

In Part One of Key Factors To Achieving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion In Japan, I covered Building Trust and Psychological Safety as well as looking at the issues around Cultural Awareness.  In Part Two, let's tackle Dealing With Unconscious Bias In Japan.  Those living in Japan might be grimacing right now, because there is the view that the bias is quite conscious and out in the open. Some of our clients tell us that they have a good proportion of their male staff, who do not support the attention being given to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and say they feel they are the victims.  The post-war period in Japan saw a number of transitions.  One was from farm-based work to factory and service industry work in cities, as people moved out from the countryside.  The US Occupation sponsored breakup of absentee landlord ownership of farms, to having tenant farmers becoming owners of their land, created the Middle Class.  Thanks to Japan becoming a major supplier to the US military during the Korean War, Japan's economy started to recover from the devastation of World War Two.  The role of women changed too.  They had been important labour inputs for farming and factory work and now full-time motherhood became possible, as the economy improved.  The labour split was such that the men would become the breadwinners and work six days a week, putting in long hours every day and the mothers would raise the children and focus on their education. This effectively meant that men monopolised the key jobs, incomes and promotions.  Today women are more active in the workforce, although many are working part-time.  For example, 70% of male workers work five days per week, whereas the corresponding number for women is 40%.  Surprisingly, overall, Japan has a greater rate of female workforce participation than the USA.  Men have had a monopoly on work opportunities, but that is being challenged by the emergence of well-educated and talented women and unsurprisingly some men working for our clients, are feeling threatened by all this talk about Diversity and Inclusion. Those are the conscious biases.  The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research estimates Japan's population will decline by 21% to only 100 million by 2049.  Companies recognise this and so there is a greater requirement for female participation in work and the push is on the make Japan more inclusive of women in the workplace. Unconscious biases however still need addressing. Political correctness drives the resistance underground and unconscious biases become the next hurdle to overcome.  Here are seven biases which need addressing 1.     Confirmation Bias This occurs when male bosses look for information which supports their bias or stereotype.  For example, working mothers won't be able to be promoted, because they cannot put in the same hours as their male colleagues or be given the same amounts of responsibility, so better not to promote these women.  Or when women get married, they will disappear from the workforce to have children, so no point in giving them a lot of accountability, because they won't be around. This reduces the opportunities that these women are given and negatively impacts their progress through the ranks into leadership positions.  Data from the Teikoku Databank showed that in April 2021 only 8% of Japanese company Presidents were women.  Additionally, half of these women took over the family business when their husbands or relatives passed away. A lack of female role models becomes a vicious cycle where women conclude they cannot get to the top.  The system seems to be against women succeeding for those at the bottom levels.  As companies move away from “hours contributed” to “results produced” this bias will be reduced.  Most of those long hours the men are putting in are not effective and are more a nod to social convention, than to increasing productivity.  Currently, according to a Robert Walters June 2022 survey, only 30% of respondents thought their compensation system was tied to their performance and skills. 2.     Groupthink Bias This is when people want to fit into the group and this is a core tenant of Japanese society – how to fit in.  In the male dominated work world this means fitting in with how the men want to run things.  For example, “of course it is better to promote the men, because they will be sticking around, unlike the women who are not as able to commit everything to their work, because of raising children or talking care of aging parents”. 3.     Halo Effect Bias This is a bit tricky, but it occurs when one characteristic dominates other characteristics and our perception is to see things through rose coloured glasses.  The ability of men to work unlimited overtime unlike the women, because they don't have to pick up the kids or take care of aging parents, makes them seem more reliable to their male bosses.  Naturally this “reliability” results in them being given the lead for projects, which then become springboards to promotion and greater responsibilities. 4.     Horns Effect Bias This is the opposite phenomenon, where women are judged negatively in one aspect and this is extrapolated across multiple fronts.  If one woman can't stay back to complete the project, then all women are tarred with the same brush and as a gender they are not judged as being sufficiently reliable.  Or once they become pregnant, they take a year and a half off from work on maternity leave and the section has to carry their workload, so better not to give them critical areas of responsibility just in case. Currently, Senior and Middle Management in Japan are 80% male according to a LinkedIn survey in February 2022.  Declining demographic trends however will force companies to face how increasingly difficult it is becoming to recruit and retain staff.   Consequently, they will have to become more flexible around retaining and promoting their female staff or risk losing them to competitors.  Companies here are facing a zero sum game future in the expanding war for talent.  5.     In Group Bias This occurs when men prefer working with men, rather than women.  The upshot is men favour each other and it seems obvious to them, to include men in the project or to promote men rather than women. 6.     Projection Bias We do this when we assume that others think the same way we do.  Because women are seen as different, it is preferred to surround yourself with other men, because that seems the easier and a better way to work.   Increasingly however there is a growing call for more diversity in the Japanese workforce.  Even the conservative peak business body the Keidanren, publicly came out in support of the need for greater diversity and promoting women's active participation in the workplace back in 2019.  The “think the same as everyone else” mantra is recognised as not producing the innovative approaches companies are requiring.  7.     Rush to Solve Bias When under pressure we sometimes have to make rapid decisions.  This can mean male bosses or colleagues prefer to ask other men for help. The bias arises because women are not seen as reliable enough or tough enough or “non-emotional” enough to contribute.  The requirement for more diverse ideas however will increasingly force male leaders to gather more options. These will have to include the opinions of female staff, in order to respond in an effective manner to the competitive challenges the company faces. Ultimately, the best ideas will win in the market. “We don't know, what we don't know” would be a good way of highlighting these different male biases in the workplace.  Every time one of these biases emerges, they have to be called out and challenged, if we are going to get to any real inclusivity in the workplace. Some part of the opposition will be ideological and other parts will be plain ignorance of the biases in operation.  Both have to be confronted and worked on or there will be no organic change for a thousand years in Japan.  This has to come from the very top of the organisation and has to be sustained until there is real change.  There is a lot of noise and rhetoric in Japan about the importance of diversity, which here fundamentally means gender issues rather than age, race, religion or sexual identity.  Major companies, both foreign and domestic, proclaim its importance, but are they succeeding in doing anything effective about it, apart from holding cosmetic internal awareness sessions?  Are they addressing these unconscious biases we have covered, which are playing out inside their firms?  My judgment is we still have a long way to go here. Inclusivity is the first rung on the ladder to get us to diversity, so let's start there.   

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A story of poets, priests, Christmas parties, and ROCKET LAUNCHERS?! Part 1 covers from the US Occupation of Nicaragua to the early days of Sandanista rule. Tune in next time for some war crimes.   Check us out on social media: Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/teach-me-communism?ref_id=10068 Instagram: @teachmecommunism Twitter: @teachcommunism Gmail: teachmecommunism@gmail.com Patreon: Patreon.com/teachmecommunism  And like and subscribe to us at Teach Me Communism on YouTube!   Solidarity forever!

Haitian seasonal migration to Cuba is central to narratives about race, national development, and US imperialism in the early twentieth-century Caribbean. Filling a major gap in the literature, this innovative study reconstructs Haitian guestworkers' lived experiences as they moved among the rural and urban areas of Haiti, and the sugar plantations, coffee farms, and cities of eastern Cuba. It offers an unprecedented glimpse into the daily workings of empire, labor, and political economy in Haiti and Cuba. Migrants' efforts to improve their living and working conditions and practice their religions shaped migration policies, economic realities, ideas of race, and Caribbean spirituality in Haiti and Cuba as each experienced US imperialism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/negmawonpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/negmawonpodcast/support

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Many don't know his name. He was the president of the Partido Nationalista Puerto Rico. He called for armed revolution, simultaneous uprisings in towns around Puerto Rico, an attack on La Fortaleza and an assassination attempt against US President Truman. But we have to ask, why? Why did he do these things? Was he a psychopath who tried to violently overthrow the United States? Or was this born from a profound need for extreme actions? We cannot fully understand him or his valiant fight for independence without understanding the circumstances from which he evolved. This is the story of Pedro Albizu Campos, known affectionately by many as Don Pedro   Read my article about Don Pedro here: https://voiceofthelily.water.blog/2022/02/05/don-pedro-albizu-campos-a-genius-revolutionary-revised-version-with-podcast/ Songs:  Pedro Albizu Campos - Andres Jimenez ‘El Jibaro' 'El Jibaro' Coño Despierta Boricua - Andres Jimenez 'El Jibaro'  Que Bonita Bandera - Ramito La Borinqueña- Danny Rivera   Works Cited:  Works Cited Democracy Now. “War against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party.” Www.youtube.com, 21 Apr. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=khkONOYSB8Q. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  Denis, Nelson A. “King of the Towels: The Torture and Murder of Pedro Albizu Campos.” Latino Rebels, 10 Mar. 2015, www.latinorebels.com/2015/03/10/king-of-the-towels-the-torture-and-murder-of-pedro-albizu-campos/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  ---. “Pedro Albizu Campos.” WAR against ALL PUERTO RICANS, 25 Feb. 2015, waragainstallpuertoricans.com/pedro-albizu-campos/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  ---. War against All Puerto Ricans : Revolution and Terror in America's Colony. New York, Bold Type Books, 2016. “Drew Pearson Interviews Gov Luis Muñoz Marín.” Www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWU9o5xjfKQ&t=543s. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  Federico Ribes Tovar. Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary. New York] Plus Ultra Educational Publishers, 1971. Fernndez, Johanna. YOUNG LORDS : A Radical History. S.L., Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2020. González, Juan. Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America. New York, Penguin, 2011. Kaike, Anani. “Don Pedro Albizu Campos, a Genius Freedom Fighter.” Voice of the Water Lily, 30 July 2019, voiceofthelily.water.blog/2019/07/30/don-pedro-albizu-campos-a-genius-freedom-fighter/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022. ---.  “It's a Colony, Why Does It Matter? Puerto Rico, US Occupation, Uprising and Cornelius Rhoads's Medical Experiments on My People.” Voice of the Water Lily, 25 Mar. 2019, voiceofthelily.water.blog/2019/03/25/its-a-colony-why-does-it-matter-puerto-rico-us-occupation-uprising-and-cornelius-rhoadss-medical-experiments-on-my-people/. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022.  “Puerto Rico.” The Eugenics Archives, eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/530ba18176f0db569b00001b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anani-kaike/message

Iraq declares end to combat mission of U.S. led international coalition forces. What happens from here? Is the American Empire over, will there be a new international regime? Dr. Jones gives his input. Original Video: presstv.ir _____ Dr. E. Michael Jones is a prolific Catholic writer, lecturer, journalist, and Editor of Culture Wars Magazine who seeks to defend traditional Catholic teachings and values from those seeking to undermine them. Buy Dr. Jones books: https://www.fidelitypress.org/ Subscribe to Culture Wars Magazine: https://www.culturewars.com Donate: https://culturewars.com/donate Follow: https://linktr.ee/EMichaelJones ———

In this episode we're analysing the Taliban takeover from a socialist perspective and what it means for the Afghan population after 20 years of US occupation. We're talking to Rob of the International Executive of ISA about these issues and how to build solidarity.

Scott Spaulding joins me for the second installment of our series covering his deployments with the US Marine Corps. We cover Scott's return home after his first deployment to Fallujah in Iraq. We also cover his second and final deployment to Iraq, which included the occupation of the Western Iraqi city of Rutba. Scott shares some of the realities of the US occupation. Listen to Part I, where we cover Scott's experience in the Second Battle of Fallujah Subscribe to Scott's Podcast "Why I am Antiwar" Why I am Antiwar on Twitter Scott on Twitter Episode 186 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Liberty Weekly Subscribestar Rakuten Cash Back Referral Link Liberty Weekly Substack The Liberty Weekly Patreon Page: help support the show and gain access to tons of bonus content! Become a patron today! Become a Patron! Liberty Weekly on Flote. Patreon Bonuses for Crypto!

https://youtu.be/H_QZ7uOugfc Scott Spaulding joins me for the second installment of our series covering his deployments with the US Marine Corps. We cover Scott's return home after his first deployment to Fallujah in Iraq. We also cover his second and final deployment to Iraq, which included the occupation of the Western Iraqi city of Rutba. Scott shares some of the realities of the US occupation. Listen to Part I, where we cover Scott's experience in the Second Battle of Fallujah Subscribe to Scott's Podcast "Why I am Antiwar" Why I am Antiwar on Twitter Scott on Twitter Episode 186 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Liberty Weekly Subscribestar Rakuten Cash Back Referral Link Liberty Weekly Substack The Liberty Weekly Patreon Page: help support the show and gain access to tons of bonus content! Become a patron today! Become a Patron! Liberty Weekly on Flote. Patreon Bonuses for Crypto!

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably caught wind of a not-so-trivial event that made headlines in global news recently. After nearly two decades, the United States military has decided to fully withdraw from the occupation of Afghanistan. Despite the US military's extended stay, it has failed in its stated goal of fostering peace and stability in the area and was unable to prevent the inevitable take over by religious fundamentalist, hyper-patriarchal, reactionary forces known as the Taliban. As a result, nearly 6 million Afghans have been forcibly displaced from their homes, 3 million within Afghanistan, and 2.6 million are fleeing capture by militants by seeking refuge in other countries. There are still many unknowns surrounding the withdrawal and our guest today wrote an article for CrimethInc called Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context; An Anti-Imperial Perspective from a Veteran of the US Occupation (https://crimethinc.com/2021/08/16/afghanistan-the-taliban-victory-in-a-global-context-a-perspective-from-a-veteran-of-the-us-occupation) that largely focused on three major questions: How did the occupation impact the people of Afghanistan? Why were the Taliban able to regain so much territory so quickly? What does the US withdrawal and its consequences tell us about the future and how we might prepare for it? In this episode, we explore these questions and more with someone whose opinions derive from the firsthand experience of, as they called it, “serving the American empire as a foot soldier” for ten whole years.

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with a former veteran and author of a recent piece on CrimethInc. entitled, Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Perspective from a Veteran of the US Occupation. We discuss the current situation in Afghanistan with the Taliban’s recent victory, the... Read Full Article

Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the end of the two-decade occupation in Afghanistan. What did the US learn? CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou talks about the intelligence failures of the past 20 years.

Exposing mainstream media coverage of the "withdrawal" of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. We focus on zionist commentators in corporate news, their opposition to U.S. troops leaving the region, and their support for permanent military occupation. We also discuss the future of Afghan relations with Russia, China, and Iran. Today's guest is Mohsin Abbas, an independent TV journalist, broadcaster and current affairs analyst. Unmasking Imperialism exposes imperialist propaganda in mainstream media. Hosted by Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez.

JOE THOMAS, author of BRAZILIAN PSYCHO chats to DAVID PEACE about his new novel TOKYO REDUX, the final part of his Tokyo trilogy, also why David's fiction focuses on real events, how his writing has developed over the years, key influences such as Derek Raymond and Jean-Patrick Manchette, crime fiction as social critique and living in Tokyo. TOKYO REDUX Tokyo, 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ.1964 - as the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics, Hideki Murota, a former policeman, now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding from for the past fifteen years.In the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him. DAVID PEACE was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three) which has been adapted into a three part Channel 4 series, GB84 which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and The Damned Utd, the film version of which was adapted by Peter Morgan and stars Michael Sheen). Tokyo Year Zero, the first part of his acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy, was published in 2007, the second part, Occupied City, in 2009, and TOKYO REDUX in 2021. JOE THOMAS is the author of the São Paulo Quartet - Paradise City, Gringa, Playboy and Brazilian Psycho - and Bent, his first London novel.Crime Time This episode produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and Leigh

We enter the 20th century in this season as we talk about McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation proclamation and the underside of the US "civilizing mission" in the Philippines. What reasons did the United States use to rationalize its continued presence in the islands? Was the new colonial order "benevolent?" Let's find out. For more PODKAS, visit www.podkas.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podkas/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podkas/support

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/japanese-studies

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

How did Japanese academics study their "fields" in places like Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the transwar decades? How did they transform in the postwar, under the US Occupation, and after? Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford UP, 2019) is the first monograph on the collective biography of this cohort of professional Japanese intellectuals, or in Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia's words, "the men of one age." Kadia observes that during the transwar decades (1930s-1060s), these "men of one age" jointly embraced a set of unchanging assumptions regarding epistemology that was anchored in the ideal of "objectivity." The scholarship, or gakujutsu, that they aimed to produce were concerned with the quest of universal laws governing human society and the natural world, the use of a comprehensively delineated method to assure rigor in pursuit of "truth," and impartiality. Those who studied the human sciences applied the ideal of "objectivity" to the study of Self and Others in Japanese colonized and occupied lands. Following the lives of these transwar human scientists into the fields, Kadia reveals that these "men of one age," such as Izumi Seiichi, were both creators and creations of imperial epistemology. Kadia points out that although the duration of Japanese imperial control was too short to apply their academic findings to policy in much of the empire, Izumi and his colleagues "enjoyed outsized influence in justifying the empire as a hierarchy of confraternal races ruled for their own benefit by the putatively superior Japanese." The US Occupation in the postwar allowed the continuation of the pursuit of "objective" knowledge for the Japanese human scientists, as well as opening new avenues for them. Kadia argues that "what changed after 1945 were the values understood to constitute objectivity," namely ideals vaunted as characteristically American: democracy, capitalism, and peace.  During the Cold War, Kadia reminds us, the US saw strategic potential in Japan's studies of East Asia and Oceania, and the Japanese academics largely "upheld the convenient fiction of their reluctant cooperation with and quiet opposition to the former government." To rehabilitate Japan's scholarly reputation, the Japanese academics were integrated into a new transnational intellectual community that both reflected and supported US hegemony, although some Japanese academics resisted the subordination of domestic progress to grand strategy.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Last year, after the United States so brutally and openly assassinated the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al -Muhandis, the Iraqi Parliament voted for the United States to cease its occupation of the country. The United States has not done that, but the resistance to US occupation in Iraq is growing. Clearing the FOG speaks with Iraqi sociologist Sami Ramadani about the history of internal resistance to the Saddam Hussein regime, how the devastation caused by the United States impacted that and the current state of the resistance. Ramadani described the "Biden Plan" to divide Iraq into three sectors and to maintain the US presence in the region to protect US oil interests. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

Sam Menefee-Libey, researcher and doctoral student in anthropology at American University, joins us to dive into some new research on the people we know were at the Capitol on January 6. Ajamu Baraka, former US vice presidential candidate for the Green Party and the National Organizer of Black Alliance for Peace, joins us to take a look at US foreign policy under US President Joe Biden towards Afghanistan and Haiti. Jon Jeter, former Washington Post bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, joins us to discuss the cozy relationship between Joe Biden and mainstream media; and we will also talk about the importance of teacher unions in the larger struggle for worker rights in the US. Sinclair Skinner, an American engineer and founder of ILoveBlackPeople.com, and a blockchain technology evangelist, joins us for our “Trends With Benefits” segment, telling you whether things are pushing us toward a bright new future or dragging us all straight to hell. Today we look at the trends in cryptocurrency.

Syria and its allies prevented regime change, but the US and its allies are continuing to squeeze Syria's population with crippling sanctions on all aspects of civilian life and a US military occupation in Syria's northeast breadbasket. Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, analyzes the state of the Syria proxy war and the ongoing propaganda campaign to whitewash it. Guest: Peter Ford, veteran British diplomat who served as the UK Ambassador to Syria from 2003-2006.

The New York Times purported to explain how the Taliban managed to “outlast a superpower through nearly 19 years of grinding war,” without examining at all how the US contributed to reviving and sustaining the Taliban insurgency.

This week we wrap this series up with a look at the changes in the feminist movement during the US Occupation of Japan, and with a look at the postwar careers of Ichikawa Fusae and Hiratsuka Raicho.  Show notes here.

In Search Of… Voodoo (YouTube) Jeb and Blake follow the In Search Of team to Haiti to learn about the mysterious religion of Voodoo. No zombies were harmed in the making of this episode. Body Ritual among the Nacarima Wikipedia on Hatian Vodou. The 1864 voodoo panic via Smithsonian, by friend of the show Mike Dash. The 1915 US Occupation of Haiti The Haitian Revolution - a deep and complicated history The New Orleans funeral scene from Live and Let Die 7-Up commercial featuring iconic actor Geoffry Holder Sugar Hill (1974) voodoo blaxploitation horror Marjoe - documentary about charismatic evangelical fraud Serpent Handling religion can be fatal Papa Legba song by Talking Heads Zora Hurston - precursor to Wade Davis's Serpent and the Rainbow ethnographic work. Serpent and the Rainbow horror movie Baby Doc Duvalier Papa Doc Duvalier Veve Designs Baron Samedi Loa Spirits Rada Loas - part of what the episode calls "White Voodoo" Petro Loas - part of what the episode calls "Red Voodoo" Ghede Loas - not included in the show Other books mentioned: Uncommon Ground (early African American archaeology) Crossroads and Cosmologies (how African Americans preserved their African religious identity)  Terms: Syncretism - the merger/combining of different beliefs Ethnogenesis - formation/origin of an ethnic group Nimoy Fashion Alert  

In tonight's episode your hosts will be discussing how thousands of Iraqis are protesting against the US occupation. Iraq’s parliament voted last month to expel the U.S. troops who have been occupying the country for nearly twenty years. However, the United States government has refused to comply with the order and has threatened harsh sanctions if they are forced to leave. #usoccupation #iraqisprotest #invasion Reference https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/iraqi-prime-minister-backs-off-expelling-us-troops.html https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/hundreds-of-thousands-of-iraqis-protest-against-us-occupation.html Patriot Watch Media, is not here to tell you what you want to hear. They tell you what you need to hear! You will always get the "Purity of Truth" with Patriot Watch Media! Be a part of the show and interact with them live by creating a free account at zoom.us! Once you've created your free account, simply login, click on 'Join a Meeting' and when prompted, type in 664 535 859. If you already have a ZOOM account, simply copy and paste the following link. https://zoom.us/j/664535859 You can now call in to the show at (234) 252-0059! Each call is limited to 5 minutes. Visit their official website, store and Patreon! https://patriotwatchmedia.com/ https://teespring.com/stores/pwmedia https://www.patreon.com/pwmedia Visit their affiliates! https://constitutionalmilitia.org/ https://www.meehanmd.com/ http://www.createhealthyhomes.com/ https://wethekids.us/ https://www.earthinpalm.com/ Disclaimer - The views expressed by the guests on our shows does not necessarily reflect the views of Patriot Watch Media. We pride ourselves on presenting all sides of an issue from the best sources available so that our audience may decide for themselves what to accept. **FAIR USE** Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976; allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Patriot Watch Media has neither monetized this work nor sought any profit from its distribution.

Basir Bita spent his childhood as a refugee in Iran and moved back to Afghanistan in 2003, which means he has spent his entire adult life living under the US occupation. He currently lives in Kabul where he works as a peace activist and as a consultant monitoring and evaluating risk factors for corruption. We discuss the current peace talks between the US and the Taliban, and what he has learned talking to people from across Afghanistan’s ethnically diverse society. Also be sure to check out our previous conversation with Abdoul Saboor who fled Afghanistan after threats from the Taliban and attacks on his family. His overland odyssey through Iran, Turkey, Eastern Europe and across the Balkans, to finally claim asylum in France, is one of the more remarkable stories I’ve encountered anywhere, and should put the ordeals of many Afghan refugees into a more human perspective. We'd appreciate your support on Patreon!

Japan under US Occupation wasn't great, but that doesn't mean that Japan before US Occupation was good.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Gerry Condon, a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister who has been a peace and solidarity activist for almost 50 years, currently as national president of Veterans for Peace.Veterans for Peace is Thursday’s regular segment about the contemporary issues of war and peace that affect veterans, their families, and the country as a whole. They start today with President Trump’s surprise visit to Iraq yesterday, his first into a combat zone as president. Instead of telling the troops they might go home soon, following his recent decisions in Syria and Afghanistan, the president continued the presidential legacy of discussing military strategy while keeping troops away from home instead. One of the year’s most important Loud & Clear interviews is being replayed from November. Brian and John talked to investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter about the Pentagon’s deepening control over U.S. politics, government and the economy in what he calls America’s Permanent-War Complex. Six Israeli F-16s attacked Syria yesterday. But this wasn’t just any attack. The Israelis used civilian flights headed to Damascus and Beirut as cover for the operation, directly endangering the passengers onboard. And this is according to the Israeli press. The Syrian Defense Ministry said that it did not engage the Israelis because it did not want to accidentally hit the passenger jets. Brian and John speak with Ambassador Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria. Billionaire Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, has acknowledged that he partially funded New Knowledge, a group that used disinformation tactics and fake news to influence the 2017 Alabama senate race in a successful effort to sink Republican Roy Moore. Last week, Facebook suspended five accounts linked to the operation for “engaging in inauthentic behavior.” One of those accounts belonged to Jonathan Morgan, CEO of New Knowledge. Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net, joins the show. This May 30 interview is one of Loud & Clear’s best 2018 shows, focusing on Washington’s hundreds of think tanks. These quasi-academic institutions are supposed to be a home for subject matter experts to think the big thoughts, write important papers and books, and, perhaps to influence policy. But the truth isn’t that simple. Most think tanks are financed by special interests like defense contractors, foreign governments, and partisan billionaires. Very few Americans realize the impact these groups have on our government and on our politics. Max Blumenthal, a bestselling author and journalist, whose latest film is “Killing Gaza,” senior editor of Grayzone Project, and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels,” joins Brian and John.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which livestreams every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, and with Sputnik News analyst and producer Walter Smolarek.Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in politics, policy, and international affairs. Today they focus on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s resignation, the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, new rearrangements in Saudi Arabian intelligence services, and the possible government shutdown. In a series of sharply worded tweets this morning, President Trump promised a “very long” government shutdown if Congress does not approve his border wall. The House approved a temporary funding measure yesterday by a vote of 217-185 and sent the bill to the Senate. But even if it passes there, Trump said he would veto it. Brian and John speak with Abdushahid Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which livestreams every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook. Fears had been growing that authorities could have taken advantage of the holiday weekend to evict Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. But a group of German parliamentarians on Thursday condemned the Trump administration for pursuing the arrest and criminal trial of the Wikileaks co-founder, and the UN made a strong statement of support. Still, activists are on guard to mobilize at a moments notice. Suzie Dawson, an activist, journalist and the president of the Internet Party of New Zealand, joins the show. Earlier this week, the US media was dominated by the news that a report produced for the Senate Intel Committee documented a massive Russian effort to influence the 2016 election campaign with targeted messaging towards the African-American community. This was presented as proof, as a smoking gun, proving that the Russians indeed interfered in the US election in the effort to elect Donald Trump. Less known and not widely reported, is that the same organization that produced the report, called New Knowledge, had itself used the same tactics that were attributed to Russia in what the company admitted was “an elaborate, false-flag operation that planted the idea that [Republican Roy] Moore’s campaign [in Alabama] was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.” In fact, the same organization spent nearly $100,000 in this false-flag campaign including purchasing Russian bots to intervene in the Alabama election so as to help Democratic candidate Doug Jones. Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net, whose most recent piece is “For What It’s Worth: The Yellow Vests and the Left,” joins Brian and John. Thousands of Catalonian protesters took to the streets today to oppose a cabinet meeting in Barcelona. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the meeting, which coincidentally takes place exactly one year after the central government called snap elections in Catalonia, to discuss raising the minimum wage and to rename the airport in an effort to placate supporters of Catalonian independence. But the continued imprisonment of Catalonian political leaders and the repressive tactics of the Civil Guard police force has caused outrage in the region. Dick Nichols, the correspondent for Spain and Catalonia for Green Left Weekly, joins the show.It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producer Nicole Roussell.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War in 1945, yet Hiroshima has consistently drawn more attention in the ensuing decades. In Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018), Chad Diehl argues that the tendency to overlook the bomb’s impact on the citizens of Nagasaki and the city’s arduous, contested process of reconstruction is hardly a coincidence. As Diehl exhaustively demonstrates in this richly documented, multi-dimensional study, Nagasaki’s municipal officials and US Occupation authorities worked together—though not necessarily for the same reasons—to downplay the bomb’s horrific impact in order to promote the city’s identity as an “international cultural city.” At the same time, conflicting interpretations of Nagasaki’s atomic past, present, and future have always competed with the officially sanctioned narrative for national and international attention. Throughout the Occupation era and even into the present day, Nagai Takashi (the “Saint of Urakami”), the city’s Catholic community, and survivor-activists have all contributed to a multivocal discourse that, in Diehl’s analysis, provides new insights into the politics of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War in 1945, yet Hiroshima has consistently drawn more attention in the ensuing decades. In Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018), Chad Diehl argues that the tendency to overlook the bomb’s impact on the citizens of Nagasaki and the city’s arduous, contested process of reconstruction is hardly a coincidence. As Diehl exhaustively demonstrates in this richly documented, multi-dimensional study, Nagasaki’s municipal officials and US Occupation authorities worked together—though not necessarily for the same reasons—to downplay the bomb’s horrific impact in order to promote the city’s identity as an “international cultural city.” At the same time, conflicting interpretations of Nagasaki’s atomic past, present, and future have always competed with the officially sanctioned narrative for national and international attention. Throughout the Occupation era and even into the present day, Nagai Takashi (the “Saint of Urakami”), the city’s Catholic community, and survivor-activists have all contributed to a multivocal discourse that, in Diehl’s analysis, provides new insights into the politics of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War in 1945, yet Hiroshima has consistently drawn more attention in the ensuing decades. In Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018), Chad Diehl argues that the tendency to overlook the bomb’s impact on the citizens of Nagasaki and the city’s arduous, contested process of reconstruction is hardly a coincidence. As Diehl exhaustively demonstrates in this richly documented, multi-dimensional study, Nagasaki’s municipal officials and US Occupation authorities worked together—though not necessarily for the same reasons—to downplay the bomb’s horrific impact in order to promote the city’s identity as an “international cultural city.” At the same time, conflicting interpretations of Nagasaki’s atomic past, present, and future have always competed with the officially sanctioned narrative for national and international attention. Throughout the Occupation era and even into the present day, Nagai Takashi (the “Saint of Urakami”), the city’s Catholic community, and survivor-activists have all contributed to a multivocal discourse that, in Diehl’s analysis, provides new insights into the politics of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War in 1945, yet Hiroshima has consistently drawn more attention in the ensuing decades. In Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018), Chad Diehl argues that the tendency to overlook the bomb’s impact on the citizens of Nagasaki and the city’s arduous, contested process of reconstruction is hardly a coincidence. As Diehl exhaustively demonstrates in this richly documented, multi-dimensional study, Nagasaki’s municipal officials and US Occupation authorities worked together—though not necessarily for the same reasons—to downplay the bomb’s horrific impact in order to promote the city’s identity as an “international cultural city.” At the same time, conflicting interpretations of Nagasaki’s atomic past, present, and future have always competed with the officially sanctioned narrative for national and international attention. Throughout the Occupation era and even into the present day, Nagai Takashi (the “Saint of Urakami”), the city’s Catholic community, and survivor-activists have all contributed to a multivocal discourse that, in Diehl’s analysis, provides new insights into the politics of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki both play a central role in any narrative of the end of the East Asia-Pacific War in 1945, yet Hiroshima has consistently drawn more attention in the ensuing decades. In Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2018), Chad Diehl argues that the tendency to overlook the bomb’s impact on the citizens of Nagasaki and the city’s arduous, contested process of reconstruction is hardly a coincidence. As Diehl exhaustively demonstrates in this richly documented, multi-dimensional study, Nagasaki’s municipal officials and US Occupation authorities worked together—though not necessarily for the same reasons—to downplay the bomb’s horrific impact in order to promote the city’s identity as an “international cultural city.” At the same time, conflicting interpretations of Nagasaki’s atomic past, present, and future have always competed with the officially sanctioned narrative for national and international attention. Throughout the Occupation era and even into the present day, Nagai Takashi (the “Saint of Urakami”), the city’s Catholic community, and survivor-activists have all contributed to a multivocal discourse that, in Diehl’s analysis, provides new insights into the politics of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey's, Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to...

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to tell stories about their lives. This book encourages us to rethink this moment when labor and migration were at the heart of empire. Casey’s analysis of the role of the state, the significance of leisure and spirituality, and the dynamics of gender and race during this period are pathbreaking and make for fascinating reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to tell stories about their lives. This book encourages us to rethink this moment when labor and migration were at the heart of empire. Casey’s analysis of the role of the state, the significance of leisure and spirituality, and the dynamics of gender and race during this period are pathbreaking and make for fascinating reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to tell stories about their lives. This book encourages us to rethink this moment when labor and migration were at the heart of empire. Casey’s analysis of the role of the state, the significance of leisure and spirituality, and the dynamics of gender and race during this period are pathbreaking and make for fascinating reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 20th century, thousands of Haitian men, women and children traveled to Cuba in search of work and wages. In Matthew Casey’s, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba During the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) digs deep into the archives, reading along and across the grain to tell stories about their lives. This book encourages us to rethink this moment when labor and migration were at the heart of empire. Casey’s analysis of the role of the state, the significance of leisure and spirituality, and the dynamics of gender and race during this period are pathbreaking and make for fascinating reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode contains graphic descriptions and explicit content. Women were recruited, coerced, and abducted on a mass scale, to be systematically raped by soldiers and officers, by order of the Japanese military during World War II. Seth Daire and JJ Janflone shine light on the horrific abuse these women experienced. While the Japanese government has partially acknowledged what happened, they have failed to take full ownership of a war crime they had instituted as official policy in 1937. Sources: http://www.awf.or.jp/e1/index.html http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2016/ap.html Henson, Maria Rosa. Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. McCurry, Justin; Kaiman, Jonathan (April 28, 2014). "Papers prove Japan forced women into second world war brothels, says China." www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. Min, Pyong Gap. "Korean “Comfort Women”." Gender & Society 17, no. 6 (2003): 938-57. Qiu, Peipei, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei. Chinese comfort women: testimonies from Imperial Japans sex slaves. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Soh, Chunghee Sarah. The comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Stetz, Margaret and Bonnie B. C. Oh. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. Tanaka, Yuki . Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002. Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

This week, we turn our attention to the US Occupation of Japan. When did Americans first start thinking seriously about taking Japan over and remaking its whole society?

In 1942, GIs who were being deployed to Britain were presented with a clear set of official instructions which warned them what they could expect to find when they reached wartime Britain: ‘‘You are coming to Britain from a country where your home is still safe, food is still plentiful, and lights are still burning. So it is doubly important for you to remember that their British soldiers and civilians have been living under a tremendous strain. It is always impolite to criticize your hosts. It is militarily stupid to insult your allies.’ – Instructions for American Servicemen (1942) Equally, in December 1943, the novelist George Orwell wrote in the Tribune that ‘It is difficult to go anywhere in London without having the feeling that London is now occupied territory.’ Both extracts give a sense of uneasy alliance between two nations which have all too often been portrayed as locked together in a ‘special relationship’ for seventy odd years. But like all relationships, alliance warfare between the US and the UK underwent periods of severe strain as well as harmonious efficiency. In this podcast, with the help of Dr Frances Houghton (University of Manchester) we’ll be discussing the extent to which the 3 million US personnel who passed through Britain between 1942-45 were really perceived as ‘overpaid, over-fed, over-sexed, and over here’ in wartime Britain. A huge thanks from both of us for tuning in for another year. We can't wait to get back to podcasting in the New Year, and we've already got many esteemed guests lined up for 2017 to discuss more fascinating topics in American History. Cheers, Mark and Malcolm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For six years following the end of World War II in August 1945, Japan was occupied by the US. Akira Iriye was ten years old at the time and vividly remembers the surrender of his country to the Allied forces and the arrival of the first American GIs in Tokyo. (Photo: US President Harry S Truman holds up the official Japanese document of surrender with Emperor Hirohito's signature - Sept 1945. Getty Images)

For six years following the end of World War II in August 1945, Japan was occupied by the US. Akira Iriye was ten years old at the time and vividly remembers the surrender of his country to the Allied forces and the arrival of the first American GIs in Tokyo. (Photo: US President Harry S Truman holds up the official Japanese document of surrender with Emperor Hirohito's signature - Sept 1945. Getty Images)

Dahr Jamail is one of the few "unembedded", truly independent journalists on the ground in Iraq. He has spent 8 of the past 14 months in Iraq, interviewing Iraqi people, taking and collecting photos of others and seeing for himself the devastation of the people of Iraq. He cites that over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. He especially talks about the horrors and massacre of Fallujah which he refers to as similar to Dresden, Germany or the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam. He also describes the illegal weapons used and the DU ("depleted uranium) which really means radiation exposure from which there are already 125,000 Gulf War I veterans on disability not to mention the horrible effects on the people of Iraq. Now the US is actually using twice as much DU as it did in Gulf War I.Jamail also talks about the evidence for the elections in Iraq having been manipulated by the US and, even though the Iraqi people who voted (and whole cities did not) voted for, as Jamail says, "electricy, jobs, water"-- ie, against the continuance of the US Occupation-- it probably won't matter since the Iraqi Governing Council won't be able to do anything without the ok of the US. The Iraqi resistance is growing exponentially while the US already has 4 military bases in Iraq with 10 more in the process of being built. All this is paid for the tax money of the US population.Right now the future doesn't look bright though Dahr Jamail will probably return to Iraq in May.Check out his blog/website to keep up on what's happening in Iraq.