Silent Lonesome Man

Putin's inhuman invasion of Ukraine on 23 February, already reinforced by an ultranationalist, denialist speech of Ukraine's existence, which shocked the world. This, in turn, has led to widespread public comparison of Putin to the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and Putin's invasion of Ukraine is much similar to Hitler's war on Poland, a war which the Soviets would join and foment the aggression that inflamed WWII. The comparison is not wrong, because Putin is a mad megalomaniac tyrant who is obsessed with neo-imperialist agenda. But Putin being compared to Hitler would make it so incredibly flawed. For all the crimes the Russian dictator did to Ukrainians, as well as Chechens, Georgians and Syrians, it is Putin's pre-war tactics that may draw us more to concern about. In this phase, it will take us to think a different figure that may qualify to Putin: the Japanese fascist leader Hideki Tojo . Hideki Tojo, who was he? Born near the New Year's Eve 1885 (30 December...

On 1 July 1931, tensions occurred over irrigation dam ditched between Korean and Chinese farmers in the village of Wanpaoshan near the border of Korea. At that time, Korea was part of Japan, therefore the Korean farmers were seen as subjects of Tokyo, so the Japanese dispatched its police alongside the Chinese counterparts. However, before the dispute could be solved, Chinese farmers had rebelled and drove the Koreans away, only to be dispersed by Japanese police. The Japanese took advantage of the dispute and sensationalised the problem into a massive nationalist discourse days later. This led to widespread anti-Chinese unrest across Japanese Korea and it was believed that the Japanese tacitly relaxing its hand for the Korean rioters so they could kill Chinese in there. The worst occurred in Pyongyang - the future capital of utopian North Korea - where more than a thousand casualties, both killed and injured. In response, massive unrest broke out in Manchuria against ethnic Koreans, ...