How fitting is the congruity? That not a score of hours after Chicago’s top historian swooped down out of the sky to deliver missives of exhortation to heed the still-trembling legacy of Japan in 1930s Manchuria, that I should find myself –scheduled by a previous version of myself! — watching the film Devils at the Doorstep / 鬼子来了?
And then the historian echoed
Perhaps on a future rainy day I will blast out the pith of his discussion here, but a few slides will suffice in the meantime.
And now from Kishi Nobusuke to another son of the Pacific…
And by the way, if you wish to investigate for yourself (rather than have Radio Free Asia spoon feed it to you) the phenonmenon of anti-Kim Jong Il tweets in China, just plug “正日 滚” into a Twitter search and have fun surfing…
Adam Cathcart 