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TL;DR: In this paper, a requiem for departed heroes, irrationality, science and "responsibility for defeat", Buddhism as repentance and repentance as nationalism, responding to atrocity, remembering the criminals, forgetting their crimes.

TL;DR: In the shadow of America's recent military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, distinguished historians of empires and noted international relations specialists consider the dirty word "empire" in the face of contemporary political reality as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Cumings as discussed by the authors argues that relations with Asia influenced America's history greatly, and argues that America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans-the Atlantic and the Pacific.

TL;DR: In this paper, the co-production of the Repatriate, 1945-49, was described as the "future of the Japanese race" and "Argumentative Types": women from Manchuria and men from Siberia.