Robert Ward Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Joining Meia on #JapanMemo S2 E10 Martijn Rasser @MartijnRasser recommended Rich Nation, Strong Army by Richard J Samuels, because 'there's a lot to be gleaned from this book in understanding Japan's present day innovation ecosystem'...

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Also on #JapanMemo S2 E2 Dr Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb recommended NASA in the World by John Krig, Angelina Callahan and Ashok Maharaj, for having 'great case studies in the long history of NASA's engagement with Europe, Japan and India'...

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#JapanMemo S2 E4 ‘Japan’s energy security’: Terazawa Tatsuya from @IEEJ_Japan recommended Bushido Capitalism: The Code to Redefine Business for a Sustainable Future by Sakurada Kengo, drawing links btwn capitalism and samurai spirit for insights into the future of capitalism.

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Fine review of 2 books on Eliot/ The Waste Land. Was lucky enough to have ‘done’ the WL for A-level. Still thrills to read, hear, see it. Prefer to think of it minus the biographical clutter, tho. Why should we care about TS Eliot’s The Waste Land? v @FT https://t.co/W8I03l7x08

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#JapanMemo S2 E1 ‘The US-Japan Alliance in 2022’: @DrMichaelJGreen recommended his own Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō & The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by SCM Paine for 🇯🇵geopol/mil history.

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...& In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy by Saadia M Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu for 'One of the few books dedicated on Japan and space policy'.

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#JapanMemo S2 E11 ‘Japan’s security and defence roles in a Taiwan contingency’: Dr Zack Cooper @ZackCooper recommended Japan Prepares for Total War by Michael Beinart bc it may 'remind people of some of the decisions that China is trying to think through today'...

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A fine piece on the rebuilding of Hiroshima. Would also highly recommend John Hersey’s 1946 ‘Hiroshima’ - the stories of six survivors of the bomb, beautifully written. https://t.co/cU8cuRi8yi

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#JapanMemo S2 E10 ‘Japan, economic security and a Taiwan contingency’: our @IISS_org Meia Nouwens @MeiaNouwens recommended Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present by June Dreyer and China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra Vogel...

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#JapanMemo S2 E2 ‘Japan’s outer space ambitions’: Professor Suzuki Kazuto @KS_1013 recommended The EU–Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China: The Crisis of Liberalism by Axel Berkofsky et al, 'to see the geostrategic issue around Japan and how it relates to EU’...