Hamish Ion is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is also author of The Cross in the Dark Valley: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1931-1945; The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 2: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1865-1945; and The Cross and the Rising Sun, Volume 1: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in The Japanese Empire, 1872-1931.