So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780231151467
ISBN-13 : 0231151462
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Book Synopsis So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish by : Donald Keene

Download or read book So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, the author reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. These entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.


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