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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
"So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish" was not what I expected it to be. I thought it would contain mainly excerpts of the diaries of Japanese writers, and that as a reader I'd be left to my own devices and given a free reign in drawing my own conclusions based on what the diarists wrote. The excerpts are indeed there, but they are somewhat secondary to the author's commentary, as if he is making a statement and using some quotes from here and there to substantiate it. This is how I felt reading the first half of the book. The overall perspective is made even more intriguing, and complicated, by the fact that the author himself was in an interpreter for the American army in Okinawa. He subsequently became interested in Japan and even made friends with some of the diarists cited in this book.
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Nagai, Kafu –
(Nagai Kafū, Sokichi Nagai)
PERSONAL:
Born December 3, , in Tokyo, Japan; died of a hemorrhaging stomach ulcer, April 10, , in Ichikawa, Japan; son of Kyuichiro (poet "Kagen," government official, and executive) and Tsune (daughter of Washizu Kido, a Confucian ethics scholar) Nagai; married wife, Yone, September, (divorced, ); married wife, Yaeji (a geisha), (divorced). Education: Attended Gyosei Gakko, Kalamazoo College, and Princeton University.
CAREER:
Apprentice playwright, ; correspondent, Yamato Shinbun, ; trainee, Yokohama Specie Bank, New York, NY, , Lyon branch, ; writer in Japan, beginning ; professor of French literature, Keio University, ; publisher of Mita Bungaku, beginning ; publisher of Bunmei and Kagetsu, beginning Military service: Worked in Japanese Legation Office, Washington, DC, during Russo-Japanese War.
MEMBER:
Japanese Academy of Arts.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Imperial Cultural Medal; Bunka Kunsho (Order of Culture),
WRITINGS:
Yashin, Biikusha (Tokyo, Japan),
Jigoku no hana, Kinko do (Tokyo, Japan),
Yume no onna, Shinseisha (Tokyo, Japan),
Joyu Nana, Shinseisha (Tokyo, Japan),
Koi to yaiba, Shinseisha (Tokyo, Japan),
Amerika monogatari, Hakubunkan (Tokyo, Japan), , Fukutake Shoten (Tokyo, Japan), ,