War and Conscience in Japan: Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742568136)

One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936-1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. In this first English-language collection of his key work, historian and translator Richard H. Minear introduces Nambara's career and thinking before presenting translations of the most important of Nambara's essays, poems, and speeches. A courageous but lonely voice of conscience, Nambara is one of the few mid-century Japanese to whom we can turn for inspiration during that dark period in world history.

Author: Nambara Shigeru
ISBN-10: 074256813X
ISBN-13: 9780742568136
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2010
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d