Japan’s Culture of Peace: Reflections on Constitutional Antimilitarism

Japanese professional baseball teams have kicked off their spring exhibition games. In February I attended a match between the Yomiuri Giants and Hiroshima Carp in southern Miyazaki Prefecture. For a sport so central to the collective identities of both Americans and the Japanese, the game I attended reminded me of how different our two cultures … Continue reading “Japan’s Culture of Peace: Reflections on Constitutional Antimilitarism”