Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey

by Ienaga Saburo and Saburo Ienaga

Book Overview

'Win or lose-- What matter? We fight for freedom of spirit.' Thus writes Ienaga Saburo, preeminent Japanese historian and courageous plaintiff in three lawsuits (1965D1997) against the government seeking to end Ministry of Education OcertificationO of textbooks, which even today constrains discussion of Japan's actions in China and elsewhere in the Pacific. The cases arose specifically from government censorship of Ienaga's forthright textbook accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742509893
• ISBN13: 9780742509894
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"