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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish - (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) by Donald Keene (Hardcover)

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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.
  • About the Author: Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
  • 192 Pages
  • History, Military
  • Series Name: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

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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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[A] superb little book.--Ian Buruma "New York Review of Books"

Keene has scoured the wartime diaries of numerous Japanese writers and judiciously woven excerpts into an elegant narrative that provides some acute insights into the mentality of the Japanese during the years of their greatest crisis.--Anthony Head "Times Literary Supplement"

Keene shows the complicated and varied reactions to the war.--Lorien Kaye "The Age"



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.6 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Military
Series Title: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Donald Keene
Language: English
Street Date: April 28, 2010
TCIN: 84222018
UPC: 9780231151467
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-6668
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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