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Vogel pays particular attention to the periods AD 600-838, when Japan learned from China, and 1895-1937 and 1972-1992, when China learned from Japan. With recorded contacts spanning 1,500 years, compared with interactions lasting merely two centuries between China and the United States, Japan-China relations are shadowed by history. As Vogel states in the preface, "I see myself as a friend of both China and Japan. [Extracted from the article]

This article reviews Yui's posthumous book, which discusses the process whereby the Japanese military integrated all human resources into a Total War System. Yui's papers, originally published several decades ago, used new sources and still present a pioneering perspective of modern Japan's military history.