Scars of War - Tokyo During World War Ii: Writings of Takeyama Michio

Informationen zum Autor Richard H. Minear is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and translator of Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey. Klappentext 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 War. Zusammenfassung Contains essays offering a look at the history of Japan during the Asia-Pacific War. This book provides an intimate account of the scars of war. It also includes personal anecdotes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Takeyama Michio, 1904-1981, by Richard H. MinearThe WritingsPart I: The WarIchiko in 1944 (1946)The End of the War (1953)White Pine and Rose (1947)Scars (1949)Part II: Crisis and ChallengeGermany-New Middle Ages? (1940)The Younger Generation (1945)Part III: The Tokyo TrialThe Trial of Mr. Hyde (1946)Letter to Judge Röling (1949)Part IV: Turn to the RightThe Student Incident: Observations and Reflections (1950)Those Who Refuse to Enter the Gate-Thoughts on One Contemporary Frame of Mind (1951)

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• Authors: Richard H. Minear, Richard H. (EDT) Minear
• Assisted by: Richard H Minear (Editor), Richard H. Minear (Editor), Minear Richard H. (Editor), Richard H. Minear (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2007
• EAN: 9780742554795
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5479-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Asian Voices; Asian Voices (Hardcover); Asian Voices
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, Modern warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, asian studies;japan studies