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Fintan Hoey
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Historian of U.S.-Japanese relations at Franklin University Switzerland. 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈
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August 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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That is a bit too cold for the Swiss. Glad you’re having fun!
May 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Ireland’s “Social Partnership” in the late twentieth century maybe? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
Social Partnership - Wikipedia
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May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Big assumption that there will be FRUS volumes 😔
March 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I remember the 1990s moral panic about alcopops. As if a big slice of Irish culture and society didn’t revolve around drink.
March 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Some examples from Japan:

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fintanhoey.bsky.social Fintan Hoey @fintanhoey.bsky.social · Feb 27
Very true. Here’s Japanese PM Sato to US Ambassador Edwin Reischauer in 1964.
“Sato launched into problem of nuclear defense, stating his views coincided with those expressed to him by British PM Wilson that if [Page 56] other fellow had nuclears it was only common sense to have them oneself. Japanese public he realized was not ready for this but would have to be educated to this point, and he felt younger generation showed hopeful signs of going this way. Nuclears he had discovered were much less costly than was generally assumed and Japanese scientific and industrial level was fully up to producing them. He then hastily added that, of course, Japan had none of “imperialistic” ambitions of past so U.S. should not be worried by what he said. In next few years he felt Japan must basically rethink whole defense problem. In this connection he repeated several times that constitution must be revised, though time not yet ripe for this.”
February 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Very true. Here’s Japanese PM Sato to US Ambassador Edwin Reischauer in 1964.
“Sato launched into problem of nuclear defense, stating his views coincided with those expressed to him by British PM Wilson that if [Page 56] other fellow had nuclears it was only common sense to have them oneself. Japanese public he realized was not ready for this but would have to be educated to this point, and he felt younger generation showed hopeful signs of going this way. Nuclears he had discovered were much less costly than was generally assumed and Japanese scientific and industrial level was fully up to producing them. He then hastily added that, of course, Japan had none of “imperialistic” ambitions of past so U.S. should not be worried by what he said. In next few years he felt Japan must basically rethink whole defense problem. In this connection he repeated several times that constitution must be revised, though time not yet ripe for this.”
February 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM