World War II, the Japanese occupation and Josef Mengele

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I was born two decades after World War II. I don’t remember when I first heard about World War II but I do know that much about what I knew of the 1940s came from three sources — books (both textbooks and fictional novels), movies and television, and my grandmother’s accounts. The textbook angle is ... (more)

A theory on regional ethics

Written by a German professor, it bothers me that the fundamental proposition is that Asia needs to copy the white man’s model to “make it.”