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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura

4/8/2019

  The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love, …

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Soldiers Alive – A Novel of the Japanese in China, 1937

1/11/2019

For century upon century, from the time of the stories of Gilgamesh (18th BCE), stories of war have been told …

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War Resistance in Japan, WWII

11/23/2018

  Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder.  Those …

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An Artist of the Floating World — Kazuo Ishiguro and War Guilt

9/13/2018

  “The Floating World” (ukiyo) as a Japanese expression has traditionally referred to evening pleasure activities, for men, during a …

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The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th

8/6/2018

  Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human …

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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes

7/31/2018

  Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice …

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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima

6/15/2018

  THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not …

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The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb

5/17/2018

Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed …

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Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII

7/25/2017

  Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma,  when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …

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Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars

3/27/2014

Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500 …

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