So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers

Donald Keene

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April, 2010
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15146-7
$24.95 / £16.95

Introduction: Wartime Diaries

1. The Day the War Began

2. The Birth of “Greater East Asia”

3. False Victories and Real Defeats

4. A Dismal New Year

5. On the Eve

6. The Jade Voice

7. The Days After

8. The Revival of Literature

9. Rejection of the War

10. Under the Occupation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Literature
• Military History

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan; Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841; and Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, as well as a definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.

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