Facing the Wave
Facing the Wave, a Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami. Gretel Ehrlich faces the wave directly in her telling of A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami. At 2:46 P.M., March 11, 2011, an earthquake of 9.1 magnitude occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, in an area of Honshu called Tohoku. An […]
Japan 1941
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy Japan 1941, by Eri Hotta, a Japanese historian, traces the crucial decisions made by the Japanese political and military leadership during 1941–the months that ended, of course, with the attack on Pearl Harbor. She provides the necessary background and context to those eleven months by skillfully including crucial events originating […]