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The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the shattering end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writers - including Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taiko - and the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vividly, though privately, expressed. Donald Keene, renowned scholar of Japan, selects from these diaries, some written by authors he knew well. Their revelations were sometimes poignant, sometimes shocking to Keene. Ito Sei's fervent patriotism and even claims of racial superiority stand in stark contrast to the soft-spoken, kindly man Keene knew. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, Keene reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. Whether detailed or fragmentary, these entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.
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Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan; Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841; and Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, as well as a definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.
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As the Sun Set
2010/7/19
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Thoughts of literary Japanese diarists during and in the close aftermath of World War II are selected and commented on by a master, Donald Keene.
Interesting information, such as the emotional impact of the USSR's declaration of war in the war's final days and the varied reactions to the presence of the U.S. occupation forces, is contained throughout this short volume.
For those who might be unaware of Professor Keene, I highly recommend his memoirs, "Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan."
As an aside, Chang Jae Lee deserves applause for the design of the book and its jacket.
Interesting information, such as the emotional impact of the USSR's declaration of war in the war's final days and the varied reactions to the presence of the U.S. occupation forces, is contained throughout this short volume.
For those who might be unaware of Professor Keene, I highly recommend his memoirs, "Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan."
As an aside, Chang Jae Lee deserves applause for the design of the book and its jacket.
Fascinating read
2012/2/11
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This little book is fascinating and, in its way, disturbing. The degree to which Japan's literati not only accepted, but eagerly embraced, the ideals of the country's wartime leaders is shocking. From the perspective of the modern day, it is almost incomprehensible that these educated figures could show such full-throated enthusiasm for war, domination, and (after Japan's defeat) vengeance. To read the diarists is to realize the enormous gap that separates contemporary Japan from the WWII years. Keene tells the story well, though a bit too dispassionately for my taste; I wish he had taken a step back and at least raised some basic questions about the role of intellectuals in a fanatical nationalist regime.
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Outstanding
2010/6/9
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As expected, Donald Keene's translations are outstanding and a pleasure to read for the sensitivity and insights that are literature and cultural history.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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