Sunday Open Thread: Gekokujo And The Boomer Sub

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“this is what all the asian girls do on instagram, right? am i doing it right?”

On my recent flights I’ve been re-re-re-re-reading John Toland’s The Rising Sun, which I first encountered when I was nine or ten years old. It would be impossible to say too much in praise of this book; few times in history has a man worked as hard, as long, and as honestly …