The scars of war : Tokyo during World War II : writings of Takeyama Michio / edited and translated by Richard H. Minear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takeyama, Michio, 1903-1984, author.

Contributor:

Minear, Richard H., editor, translator.

Series:

Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)

Asian voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Japan.

World War, 1939-1945.

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Takeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children born during the war, and teacher at Japan's elite school of higher education in Tokyo, he experienced the war on its home front. This intimate account of the "scars of war," including personal anecdotes from Takeyama's students and family, is one of very few histories from this unique vantage point. Beautifully translated by Richard H. Minear, these honest and moving essays are a fresh look at the history of Japan during the Asia-Pacific Wa

Contents:

The war

Ichikō in 1944 (1946)

The end of the war (1953)

White pine and rose (1947)

Scars (1949)

Crisis and challenge

Germany : a new middle ages? (1940)

The younger generation (1945)

The Tokyo trial

The trial of Mr. Hyde (1946)

Letter to Judge Röling (1949)

Turn to the right

The student incident : observations and reflections (1950)

Those who refuse to enter the gate : thoughts on one contemporary frame of mind (1951).

Notes:

Translation of selections from Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-23331-2

0-7425-5479-1

1-4616-4553-0

OCLC:

856869659