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  • A World History Free from Both Eurocentrism and Orientalism 7 　　　　　Did Alexander the Great Conquer the East, or Was He Conquered?

    （After Greece, the history of the Mediterranean shifts to Rome. However, in between, we have the conquest of Alexander the Great. Often, this event is portrayed as an advanced European civilization sweeping in to civilize a backward East, but let’s examine what the situation was really like. IIncidentally, it must be noted that his power was largely sustained by the…

  • A World History Free from Both Eurocentrism and Orientalism 6 　　　　　Greece—a Mutant of Mediterranean Civilization

    （This chapter deals with ancient Greece.It is not known where the people of ancient Greece came from. As can be seen from the statues that have survived to the present day, they differed from the people of the Orient. While Athens is considered Ionian and Sparta Dorian in origin, their cultures share commonalities. Furthermore, the reverence for “freedom” and the…

  • A World History Free from Both Eurocentrism and Orientalism　4　

    The Mediterranean Civilizational Sphere: An Extension of the Orient (The source text of this series is “In Search of Lost Modernity” by Akio KAWATO. The English edition of this book (originally written in Japanese) is on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hiRK7kjbX0Hxd2NOxPqtQlVWgjDHgKCr/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MB0Me9P5Lpa2HGceuJUdMqqQ2CRHQSxa/edit The copyright belongs to the author, Akio Kawato . （This installment serves as an introduction to the upcoming section on ancient Greek…

  • The Postwar World and the Shifting Currents Beneath It

    (This is a slightly revised version of my article to be published in Newsweek Japan on September 8.) . The Post-Cold War Era and the Expansion of American Power . The international situation today can broadly be described as the “post-Cold War” era. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, which divided the world for decades…

  • Japan Will Not Turn Hawkish—Despite a Landslide for the Takaichi LDP

    / On February 8, Japan held a general election for the House of Representatives. Although the chamber still had nearly three years left in its term, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi—who had herself been chosen by parliament only last October—declared that she wanted to seek a direct mandate from the public and dissolved the lower house. Under Japan’s Constitution, the prime…

  • On the Restarting of This Blog

    This blog existed for approximately 20 years until December of 2024. After being offline for a year. Now it is restarted with the help of the Urban Connections Inc. team. The reason for its disappearance, as noted at the end, was due to technical factors. / Past data, as of November 29, 2023, has been preserved by the National Diet…