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

by Donald Keene

Book Overview

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 defeat. Nevertheless, until the shattering end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231151462
• ISBN13: 9780231151467
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"