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The other problem is that while Miller at his best is fierce and brutal, he is seldom intricate or subtle.
If Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Malaya was notoriously brutal, the attitude towards Asian civilians was more ambivalent.
Shatz reports that "Finkelstein acknowledges the Nazi state was a brutal dictatorship, but he glosses over its disturbingly popular character."
The Los Angeles Times leads with the goings-on at the China/Japan summit in Tokyo (which is also fronted by the WP , and carried inside at the NYT ), where leaders of the two countries agreed to deeper economic, environmental, and social ties, but haggled over the form and wording of Japan's official apology for the brutal acts it committed against China during World War II.
The introduction of less brutal disciplinary methods; sports, particularly football; the increased presence of girls; the levelling off of class differences between students and teachers.