Japan

I want to repost one of my first columns, written about eleven years ago. Reading Hagakure, a book I stumbled upon by chance at the time, proved to be a pivotal moment for me, so much so that I decided to dedicate a paper to it. An Italian version of it can still be found on the web, in some blogs.

The Japanese conquest of Singapore in south-east Asia, on 15 February 1942, is often referred to in Western historical annals as “the Fall of Singapore”, as though a free and unmolested territory had, for the first time, been captured by a colonia

As magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of Japan’s Honshu island on March 11, 2011, world’s leading countries responded with sending special planes to fly their citizens out of Japan.