Windows for the Crown Prince: An American Woman's Four Years as Private Tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan

by Elizabeth Gray Vining

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0397000375
• ISBN13: 9780397000371
• Release Date: January 1952
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 9

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Windows for the Crown Prince -- Akihito of Japan

Windows for the Crown Prince - Akihito of Japan by Elizabeth Gray Vining 1952, 1989.How much influence can one person have? The author is asked to serve as the private tutor of English for the Crown Prince by the Emperor of Japan in the post WWII era. He lives a life very isolated from the rest of the real world. Her Quaker background and her desire to help him see the "outside" world beyond palace walls helped shape the man who is the figurehead leader of Japan today. Her inside look at the life of the young future leader gives an interesting and informative look at Japan and its people at this time period. A delightful book for people who enjoy history, culture studies, memoirs and Japanese society. Easy to read and enjoy.