"I completely blotted it out with floods of water and made it like a meadow. All those later kings were probably trying to emulate the bad ass of them all, asernaser pal the second," he says. "Their foreign policy was based on scaring the hell out of people. They didn't want you to rebel."
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...