Posts Tagged with ‘Japan’
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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura
08 Apr 2019The 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
11 Jan 2019For 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
23 Nov 2018Avoidance 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
13 Sep 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
06 Aug 2018Today 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
31 Jul 2018Pride 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
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
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Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
23 May 2018The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind…
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The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb
17 May 2018Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed…
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American Empire: Going Across the Waters
23 Feb 2018Those of us who have spent anytime at all in Hawaii, usually on vacation, enjoying the fine weather, the…
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Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII
25 Jul 2017Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship,…
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Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies
03 Jun 2017In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages,…
