So lovely a country will never perish : wartime diaries of Japanese writers

So lovely a country will never perish : wartime diaries of Japanese writers / Donald Keene.

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 de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keene, Donald (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:Asia perspectives.
Subjects:
Nagai, Kafū, > 1879-1959 > Diaries.
Takami, Jun, > 1907-1965 > Diaries.
Yamada, Fūtarō, > 1922-2001 > Diaries.
Nagai, Kafū, > 1879-1959
Takami, Jun, > 1907-1965
Yamada, Fūtarō, > 1922-2001
1900-1999
Authors, Japanese > 20th century > Diaries.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Authors, Japanese
War and literature
Japan
Diaries
Personal narratives > Japanese
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Table of Contents:
  • The day the war began
  • The birth of "Greater East Asia"
  • False victories and real defeats
  • A dismal New Year
  • On the eve
  • The jade voice
  • The days after
  • The revival of literature
  • Rejection of the war
  • Under the occupation.

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