Francis Pike

Shinzo Abe and the long history of Japanese political violence

Assassinations, ambushes, and ritual suicides remain embedded in the country’s idea of itself

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Francis Pike
Francis Pike is a historian and author of Hirohito’s War, The Pacific War 1941-1945 and Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II.

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