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 1945Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. Among his most impressive speeches are two memorials to fallen student-soldiers, which directly confront Nambara's wartime dilemma: what and how toadvise students called up to fight a war he did not believe in. 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: Shigeru, Nambara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: War and Conscience in Japan
Pages: 00230 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00230 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2010-12-16
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780742568150
Lib Category: World War, 1939-1945 - Japan
Lib Category: Japan - History - Allied occupation, 1945-
Category: History : Military - World War II
Category: History : Asia - Japan