From Allies to Enemies: Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811984723)

Florentino Rodao is a Professor of Modern History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has two Ph. D's (Complutense and the University of Tokyo) and has also taught in the universities of Ateneo de Manila, Keiō, Wisconsin-Madison, Puerto Rico and Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs. As visiting scholar and such, he has been at Australian National, Tokyo at Komaba, Harvard, South Pacific at Laucala, California at Berkeley and Hawai'I at Mānoa.

Rodao has worked extensively on Spanish interactions with East Asia and the Pacific. Besides edited books and articles, he authored Espales en Siam, 1540-1939. Una contribuci al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (1997), and has published extensively on the Philippines, such as Franquistas sin Franco. Una historia alternativa de la Guerra Civil Espala desde Filipinas (2012). He has also published for wider audiences, such as La Soledad del Pa﨎 Vulnerable. Jap since 1945(2019).