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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025
The Japanese weekly Shukan Kinyobi and The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus jointly interviewed Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, co-authors of The Untold History of the United States, a 10-episode documentary series (broadcast on Showtime Network, 2012-13) and a companion book of the same name (Simon and Schuster, 2012), on August 11 in Tokyo. It was the 8th day of the duo's 12-day tour of Japan, right after they visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki to participate in the 68th memorial of the atomic-bombing on August 6 and 9 respectively, and before they visited Okinawa, to witness the realities of the continuing US military base occupation and resistance to it. Stone and Kuznick, relaxed with a few late-afternoon drinks between two large public events in Hibiya, Tokyo, talked about the importance of learning and teaching history, the “thread of civilization” as a people's “weapon of truth,” to defend against the power of the American empire, whose image has been molded on the continuing distortion of history and glorification of past wars. This applies to Japan and its government's denial of aggression in its past wars, too. The interview ranges widely over their five years of collaboration on the Untold History.
Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.' As footnote
[1] Barack Obama, “Presidential Proclamation - Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War,” the White House, May 25, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/25/presidential-proclamation-commemoration-50th-anniversary-vietnam-war
[2] A quote from G. H. Bush's radio address in March 2, 1991, quoted in many articles, for example, Mark Thomson, “Iraq: 10 Years,” Time, March 18, 2013. http://nation.time.com/2013/03/18/iraq-ten-years-after/
[3] Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, the White House, July 27, 2013. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/27/remarks-president-60th-anniversary-korean-war-armistice
[4] “It is in this spirit that we must now move beyond the discords of the past decade. It is in this spirit that I ask you to join me in writing an agenda for the future.” Gerald Ford, Speech at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 23, 1975. http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0122/1252291.pdf
[5] Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books, 2013.
[6] “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.” The Project for the New American Century, Rebuilding America's Defenses - Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century, September 2000, p.51. http://www.newamericancentury.org/Rebuildin gAmericasDefenses.pdf
[7] The Nye Committee was a Senate committee led by North Dakota Senator Gerald Nye, which probed into the US banking interests in the US involvement with WWI. For details, see pp.64-85, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, Simon and Schuster, 2012.
[8] Full text of Smedley Butler's famous 1933 speech “War Is a Racket” is available here. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articl e4377.htm Also see Douglas Lummis, “Douglas Lummis on Smedley Butler, and Butler's ‘War Is A Racket’ speech,” Peace Philosophy Centre, October 11, 2010. http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.ca/2010/10/douglas-lummis-on-smedley-butler-and.html
[9] Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace Museum http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen/English/in dexE.htm Also see “August 9 Memorial for Korean A-bomb Victims in Nagasaki 8月9 日長崎原爆朝鮮人犠牲者追悼早朝集会 나가사키 원폭 조선인 희생자 추도 조조집회 메시지,,”Peace Philosophy Centre, August 30, 2010. http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.ca/2010/08/august-9-memorial-for-korean-bomb.html
[10] D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet, 1885-1930. This is a quote from his Studies in Classical American Literature, 1923.
[11] For the history of African-American initiatives in the anti-nuclear movement, see Vincent Intondi's work, for example, From Harlem to Hiroshima: The African American Response to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). http://fch.ju.edu/FCH-2007/Intondi-From%20Harlem%20to%20Hiroshima.htm
[12] AMPO is short for Nichibei anzen hosho joyaku, or the Japan-US Security Treaty signed in 1960, which stipulates the presence of US military bases in Japan. For details of struggle against the US bases on the islands of Okinawa, which hosts 74% of the US military bases in Japan, Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States, Rowman and Littlefield, 2012.
[13] Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, “The U.S. and Japan: Partners in Historical Falsification,” Huffington Post, September 10, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver-stone/the-us-and-jap an-partners_b_3902034.html
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