
Yukio Mishima
Jonathan Bowden Library
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The History of the Atomic Weapons
Japan has been politically crucified in certain respects since the Second War. Germany is a very powerful country economically, and yet a country with almost no military resource outside or external to its own borders. Both countries have internalised their massive defeats in the second global conflagration of the 20th century. The Westerners don't realise how much post-war Japan has been westernised in America's image. It's only because Japanese culture is so distinct and freestanding and resistant to Westernisation in some of its own terms.
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