Just as All Quiet On The Western Front was the first literary bridge between Germany and America after World War I, so Long The Imperial Way was the first between Japan and America since World War II. "I wrote the book," says Hanama Tasaki, "during the year spent in bed with tuberculosis. It is an amalgam of many moods and aims, one of which was to straighten out the jumbled emotions-predominantly guilt-complex-under which I had labored since the...