Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire Editor: Paul Kratoska Publisher: National University of Singapore Press

THERE are still people who will insist that the philistine Henry Ford was right: “History is bunk!” Such people have a very great deal of explaining to do. Why, if history does not matter, does the death grapple of the Israelis and the Palestinians go on? Is there no continuum between the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the si