Defending Japans Pacific War Kyoto School Philosophers

Defending Japans Pacific War is a major achievement for which the author must be congratulated. A necessarily selective review cannot do full justice to it. Its deserves a wide readership beyond Japan studies. Kenn Nakata Steffensen, Department of Political and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. Williamss Pacific War revisionism, in the western liberal mode is uncompromising . He has offered no quarter and taken no prisoners. His impassioned arguement for his case and his equally passionate attack on those he disagrees with may upset some, but even then it stimulates thought and critical self reflection. Kenn Nakata Steffensen, Department of Political and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. | David Williams Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and