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The Tamogami Debacle: Dismissal of a Japanese General and the Danger of Indignation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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By early November 2008, every major newspaper and mainstream television station in Japan had reported on the events surrounding Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Tamogami Toshio: his dismissal from the Defense Ministry for provocatively contradicting national policy on the Asia-Pacific War and his later unrepentant testimony before a committee of the National Diet.

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